China’s rapid induction of a mass-produced, ultra-low-noise, four-channel single-photon detector marks a transformative ...

Over the past decades, engineers have introduced numerous technologies that rely on light and its underlying characteristics.

Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) represent a cutting-edge class of devices that have transformed the detection of extremely weak light signals. Operating at cryogenic ...

In the science fiction movie ‘Predator’, the alien uses an advanced infrared thermal camera to get super night vision and to locate Dutch's hiding area accurately. Any object whose absolute ...

A single-photon detector (SPD) is sensitive to incidence of individual quanta of light and has many applications in photonics, such as fluorescence measurements, laser ranging, optical time-domain ...

One notable type is the superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD). SNSPDs utilize ultra-thin superconducting wires that quickly transition from a superconducting state to a resistive ...

A project led by Heriot-Watt University has developed a novel single-photon detection system set to improve the performance of lidar systems. Described in Optica, the detector "can generate ...

An international research team involving Paderborn University has achieved a crucial breakthrough on the road to a quantum ...

There are few technologies more fundamental to modern life than the ability to control light with precision. From fiber-optic communications to quantum sensors, the manipulation of photons underpins ...

Physicists successfully teleport quantum information between photons from different sources, a key step towards a secure ...