Using surface plasmons to enhance the speed and efficiency of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors by Hu, Xiaolong, Dauler, Eric A., Kerman, Andrew J., Yang, Joel K. W., White, James E., Herder, Charles Henry, Berggren, Karl K.

“…We report our design and fabrication of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors integrated with gold plasmonic nanostructures, which can enhance the absorption of TM-polarized light, and can enlarge the effective area without sacrificing detector speed.…”
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Suppressed Critical Current in Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors With High Fill-Factors by Yang, Joel K. W., Kerman, Andrew J., Dauler, Eric A., Cord, Bryan M., Anant, Vikas, Molnar, Richard J., Berggren, Karl K.

“…In this work we present a new fabrication process that enabled the fabrication of superconducting nanowire single photon detectors SNSPD with fill-factors as high as 88% with gaps between nanowires as small as 12 nm. …”
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Review of superconducting nanowire single-photon detector system design options and demonstrated performance by Dauler, Eric A., Grein, Matthew E., Kerman, Andrew J., Marsili, Francesco, Miki, Shigehito, Nam, Sae Woo, Shaw, Matthew D., Terai, Hirotaka, Verma, Varun B., Yamashita, Taro

“…We describe a number of methods that have been pursued to develop superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) with attractive overall performance, including three systems that operate with >70% system detection efficiency and high maximum counting rates at wavelengths near 1550 nm. …”
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Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors : new detector architectures and integration with photonic chips by Najafi, Faraz

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Probing the hotspot interaction length in NbN nanowire superconducting single photon detectors by Renema, J, Gaudio, R, Wang, Q, Gaggero, A, Mattioli, F, Leoni, R, van Exter, M, Fiore, A, de Dood, M

“…We measure the maximal distance at which two absorbed photons can jointly trigger a detection event in NbN nanowire superconducting single photon detector microbridges by comparing the one-photon and two-photon efficiencies of bridges of different overall lengths, from 0 to 400 nm. …”

Free-Running Single-Photon Detection via GHz Gated InGaAs/InP APD for High Time Resolution and Count Rate up to 500 Mcount/s by Wen Wu, Xiao Shan, Yaoqiang Long, Jing Ma, Kun Huang, Ming Yan, Yan Liang, Heping Zeng

Subjects: “…single-photon detector…”
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Room temperature continuous frequency tuning InGaAs/InP single-photon detector by Huan Chen, Musheng Jiang, Shihai Sun, Guangzhao Tang, Linmei Liang

“…However, a wide tunable gate frequency or even free running single photon detectors at high speed would be very useful in quantum key distribution, quantum entanglement distribution and so on. …”
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Characterizing multi-photon quantum interference with practical light sources and threshold single-photon detectors by Álvaro Navarrete, Wenyuan Wang, Feihu Xu, Marcos Curty

“…In this paper, we introduce a simple experimental technique to characterize multi-photon quantum interference by means of practical laser sources and threshold single-photon detectors. Our technique is based on well-known methods in quantum cryptography which use decoy settings to tightly estimate the statistics provided by perfect devices. …”
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Multispectral and low-filling-factor superconducting nanowire single photon detector with high absorption efficiency by Dezhi Li, Xiangyuan Liu, Rongzhen Jiao

“…We propose a superconducting nanowire single photon detector (SNSPD) that can work efficiently at two target wavelengths and has a significant improvement in the counting rate due to the low-filling-factor nanowires in the silicon slots and the silver reflector. …”
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Design of a Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detector With Dual-Broadband and High Detection Efficiency by Fan Zheng, Ruiying Xu, Yajun Chen, Guanghao Zhu, Biaobing Jin, Lin Kang, Weiwei Xu, Jian Chen, Peiheng Wu

Subjects: “…Superconducting nanowire single photon detector…”
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Multispectral Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detector Based on Thickness-Modulated Optical Film Stack by Heqing Wang, Peng Hu, You Xiao, Xingyu Zhang, Hui Zhou, Weijun Zhang, Hao Li, Lixing You, Zhen Wang

“…We report on a multispectral superconducting nanowire single-photon detector based on a thickness-modulated optical film stack. …”
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Space Debris Laser Ranging with range-gate-free Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detector by Zhang Haitao, Li Yuqiang, Li Zhulian, Pi Xiaoyu, Yang Yongzhang, Tang Rufeng

Subjects: “…superconducting nanowire single-photon detector…”
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Comparison of the capabilities of histograms and a method of ranged amplitudes in noise analysis of single-photon detectors by Nikolay Perminov, Maksim Smirnov, Raoul Nigmatullin, Anvar Talipov, Sergey Moiseev

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Low-jitter single-photon detector arrays integrated with silicon and aluminum nitride photonic chips by Najafi, Faraz, Mower, Jacob, Bellei, Francesco, Lee, Catherine, Hu, Xiaolong, Schroder, Tim, Kharel, Prashanta, Marsili, Francesco, Assefa, Solomon, Berggren, Karl K., Harris, Nicholas Christopher, Bellei, Francesco, Dane, Andrew Edward, Mouradian, Sara L., Englund, Dirk Robert

“…We present progress on a scalable scheme for integration of single-photon detectors with silicon and aluminum nitride photonic circuits. …”
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Numerical method to optimize the polar-azimuthal orientation of infrared superconducting-nanowire single-photon detectors by Csete, Maria, Sipos, Áron, Najafi, Faraz, Hu, Xiaolong, Berggren, Karl K.

“…The method was applied to determine the illumination-angle-dependent absorptance in cavity-based superconducting-nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD) designs. Niobium-nitride stripes based on dimensions of conventional SNSPDs and integrated with ∼ quarter-wavelength hydrogen-silsesquioxane-filled nano-optical cavity and covered by a thin gold film acting as a reflector were illuminated from below by p-polarized light in this study. …”
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Optically probing the detection mechanism in a molybdenum silicide superconducting nanowire single-photon detector by Caloz, M, Korzh, B, Timoney, N, Weiss, M, Gariglio, S, Warburton, R, Schönenberger, C, Renema, J, Zbinden, H, Bussières, F

“…We experimentally investigate the detection mechanism in a meandered molybdenum silicide (MoSi) superconducting nanowire single-photon detector by characterising the detection probability as a function of bias current in the wavelength range of 750 to 2050 nm. …”

Single-photon detectors combining high efficiency, high detection rates, and ultra-high timing resolution by Iman Esmaeil Zadeh, Johannes W. N. Los, Ronan B. M. Gourgues, Violette Steinmetz, Gabriele Bulgarini, Sergiy M. Dobrovolskiy, Val Zwiller, Sander N. Dorenbos

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Superconducting single-photon detectors fabricated via a focused electron beam-induced deposition process by Stephan Steinhauer, Adrian Iovan, Samuel Gyger, Val Zwiller

“…Here, we demonstrate a resist-free fabrication route for realizing superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors based on focused electron beam-induced deposition. …”
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Opto-electronic bias of a superconducting nanowire single photon detector using a cryogenic photodiode by Frederik Thiele, Thomas Hummel, Maximilian Protte, Tim J. Bartley

“…Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors (SNSPDs) have become an integral part of quantum optics in recent years because of their high performance in single photon detection. …”
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NbN superconducting nanowire single-photon detector with an active area of 300 μm-in-diameter by Chengjun Zhang, Weijun Zhang, Jia Huang, Lixing You, Hao Li, Chaolin lv, Tatsuki Sugihara, Masahiko Watanabe, Hui Zhou, Zhen Wang, Xiaoming Xie

“…Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) with both an ultra-large-active area and a high count rate (CR) are challenging from the design and fabrication. …”
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