Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors integrated with optical nano-antennae by Hu, Xiaolong, Dauler, Eric A., Molnar, Richard J., Berggren, Karl K.

“…This antenna-assisted coupling enables a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector with 47% device efficiency at the wavelength of 1550 nm and 9-μm-by-9-μm active area while maintaining a reset time of only 5 ns. …”
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Improvement of infrared single-photon detectors absorptance by integrated plasmonic structures by Najafi, Faraz, Berggren, Karl K., Csete, Maria, Sipos, Aron, Szalai, Aniko, Szabo, Gabor

“…Optimized illumination configurations are reported to improve p-polarized light absorptance in superconducting-nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) comprising short- and long-periodic niobium-nitride (NbN) stripe-patterns. …”
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Dispersion engineering of superconducting waveguides for multi-pixel integration of single-photon detectors by Ali W. Elshaari, Adrian Iovan, Samuel Gyger, Iman Esmaeil Zadeh, Julien Zichi, Lily Yang, Stephan Steinhauer, Val Zwiller

“…We use dispersion engineering to control the signal propagation speed in the feed lines of superconducting single-photon detectors. Using this technique, we demonstrate time-division-multiplexing of two-pixel detectors connected with a slow-RF transmission line, all realized using planar geometry requiring a single lithographic step. …”
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Optimizing the growth conditions of Al mirrors for superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors by Rasmus Flaschmann, Christian Schmid, Lucio Zugliani, Stefan Strohauer, Fabian Wietschorke, Stefanie Grotowski, Björn Jonas, Manuel Müller, Matthias Althammer, Rudolf Gross, Jonathan J Finley, Kai Müller

“…Finally, we confirm the high-quality of the deposited films by realizing superconducting single-photon detectors integrated into multi-layer heterostructures consisting of an aluminum mirror and a silicon dioxide dielectric spacer. …”
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Electro-Optical Sampling of Single-Cycle THz Fields with Single-Photon Detectors by Taylor Shields, Adetunmise C. Dada, Lennart Hirsch, Seungjin Yoon, Jonathan M. R. Weaver, Daniele Faccio, Lucia Caspani, Marco Peccianti, Matteo Clerici

“…We report on our experiments on THz electro-optical sampling using single-photon detectors and a weak squeezed vacuum field as the optical probe. …”
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Reducing Afterpulsing in InGaAs(P) Single-Photon Detectors with Hybrid Quenching by Junliang Liu, Yining Xu, Zheng Wang, Yongfu Li, Yi Gu, Zhaojun Liu, Xian Zhao

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CMOS-compatible self-quenched active recovery (SQUARE) single-photon detector by B. Schuster, H. Peng, S. Arya, Y. Jiang, M. A. R. Miah, J. Zhou, A. Davis, Y.-H. Lo

“…Current CMOS single-photon detectors operating in Geiger mode use passive quenching, yielding slow recovery due to the RC delay. …”
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Plasmonic Structure Integrated Single-Photon Detectors Optimized to Maximize Polarization Contrast by Maria Csete, Andras Szenes, David Maraczi, Balazs Banhelyi, Tibor Csendes, Szaba Gabor

“…Numerical optimization was performed via COMSOL multiphysics to maximize the polarization contrast of superconducting nanowire single photon detectors (SNSPDs). SNSPDs were integrated with four different types of 1D periodic plasmonic structures capable of mediating p-polarized photon selectivity to the niobium-nitride superconducting nanowire pattern. …”
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Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors on aluminum nitride photonic integrated circuits by Zhu, Di, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Photon-Efficient Computational 3-D and Reflectivity Imaging With Single-Photon Detectors by Kirmani, Ahmed, Shin, Dongeek, Goyal, Vivek K, Shapiro, Jeffrey H

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Optical properties of ultra-thin niobium nitride films for single photon detectors by Archer, Lucy Elizabeth

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High-Rate Quantum Key Distribution with Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors by Spellmeyer, Neal W., Kerman, Andrew J., Molnar, Richard J., Berggren, Karl K., Moores, John D., Hamilton, Scott A.

“…We demonstrate the potential for 1.85 Mbit/s secure key rates over 101 km of fiber, >100 times faster than previously demonstrated, using the differential phase shift quantum key distribution protocol and superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors.…”
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On-chip detection of non-classical light by scalable integration of single-photon detectors by Najafi, Faraz, Mower, Jacob, Bellei, Francesco, Lee, Catherine, Hu, Xiaolong, Kharel, Prashanta, Marsili, Francesco, Assefa, Solomon, Berggren, Karl K., Harris, Nicholas Christopher, Dane, Andrew Edward, Englund, Dirk Robert

“…A central goal is to integrate single-photon detectors to reduce optical losses, latency and wiring complexity associated with off-chip detectors. …”
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Single-photon detector-based long-distance Brillouin optical time domain reflectometry by Romanet Maxime, Rochat Etienne, Huy Kien Phan, Beugnot Jean-Charles

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Suppressing Dark Counts of Multimode-Fiber-Coupled Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detector by Chengjun Zhang, Weijun Zhang, Lixing You, Jia Huang, Hao Li, Xingqu Sun, Heqing Wang, Chaolin Lv, Hui Zhou, Xiaoyu Liu, Zhen Wang, Xiaoming Xie

“…Large active-area superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) coupled with multimode fibers (MMFs) can provide high light-gathering capacity, which is essential for free-space detection applications in photon-starved regimes. …”
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Plasmonic Structure Integrated Single-Photon Detector Configurations to Improve Absorptance and Polarization Contrast by Mária Csete, Gábor Szekeres, András Szenes, Anikó Szalai, Gábor Szabó

“…Configurations capable of maximizing both the absorption component of system detection efficiency and the achievable polarization contrast were determined for 1550 nm polarized light illumination of different plasmonic structure integrated superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) consisting of p = 264 nm and P = 792 nm periodic niobium nitride (NbN) patterns on silica substrate. …”
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Sputtered NbN films for ultrahigh performance superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors by Ilya A. Stepanov, Aleksandr S. Baburin, Danil V. Kushnev, Evgeniy V. Sergeev, Oksana I. Shmonina, Aleksey R. Matanin, Vladimir V. Echeistov, Ilya A. Ryzhikov, Yuri V. Panfilov, Ilya A. Rodionov

“…At the present time, ultrahigh performance superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors are the key elements in a variety of devices from biological research to quantum communications and computing. …”
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Fabrication Process Yielding Saturated Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors With 24-Picosecond Jitter by Najafi, Faraz, Bellei, Francesco, Zhao, Qingyuan, Sunter, Kristen A., McCaughan, Adam N., Berggren, Karl K., Dane, Andrew Edward

“…We present an optimized fabrication process for superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors that allowed us to obtain a yield of ~70% for detectors based on 80-nm-wide niobium nitride nanowires. …”
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Free-space-coupled superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors for infrared optical communications by Bellei, Francesco, Cartwright, Alyssa P., McCaughan, Adam N, Dane, Andrew E., Najafi, Faraz, Zhao, Qingyuan, Berggren, Karl K

“…This paper describes the construction of a cryostat and an optical system with a free-space coupling efficiency of 56.5% ± 3.4% to a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD) for infrared quantum communication and spectrum analysis. …”
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Large-area microwire MoSi single-photon detectors at 1550 nm wavelength by Charaev, I, Morimoto, Y, Dane, A, Agarwal, A, Colangelo, M, Berggren, KK

“…We demonstrate saturated internal detection efficiency at 1550 nm wavelengths for meander-shaped superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors made of 3 nm thick MoSi films with widths of 1 and 3 μm and active areas up to 400 × 400 μm2. …”
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