Recent Progress and Application of Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors

Taro YAMASHITA; Shigehito MIKI; Hirotaka TERAI

doi:10.1587/transele.E100.C.274

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Recent Progress and Application of Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors

Taro YAMASHITA, Shigehito MIKI, Hirotaka TERAI

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In this review, we present recent advances relating to superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SSPDs or SNSPDs) and their broad range of applications. During a period exceeding ten years, the system performance of SSPDs has been drastically improved, and lately excellent detection efficiencies have been realized in practical systems for a wide range of target photon wavelengths. Owing to their advantages such as high system detection efficiency, low dark count rate, and excellent timing jitter, SSPDs have found application in various research fields such as quantum information, quantum optics, optical communication, and also in the life sciences. We summarize the photon detection principle and the current performance status of practical SSPD systems. In addition, we introduce application examples in which SSPDs have been applied.

Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics Vol.E100-C No.3 pp.274-282

Publication Date: 2017/03/01

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Online ISSN: 1745-1353

DOI: 10.1587/transele.E100.C.274

Type of Manuscript: Special Section INVITED PAPER (Special Section on Leading-Edge Technologies of Superconducting Measurement Systems)

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Taro YAMASHITA
  NICT Advanced ICT Research Institute
Shigehito MIKI
  NICT Advanced ICT Research Institute
Hirotaka TERAI
  NICT Advanced ICT Research Institute

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superconductivity, single-photon detector, quantum information, quantum optics, optical communication, life science

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Taro YAMASHITA, Shigehito MIKI, Hirotaka TERAI, "Recent Progress and Application of Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics, vol. E100-C, no. 3, pp. 274-282, March 2017, doi: 10.1587/transele.E100.C.274.
Abstract: In this review, we present recent advances relating to superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SSPDs or SNSPDs) and their broad range of applications. During a period exceeding ten years, the system performance of SSPDs has been drastically improved, and lately excellent detection efficiencies have been realized in practical systems for a wide range of target photon wavelengths. Owing to their advantages such as high system detection efficiency, low dark count rate, and excellent timing jitter, SSPDs have found application in various research fields such as quantum information, quantum optics, optical communication, and also in the life sciences. We summarize the photon detection principle and the current performance status of practical SSPD systems. In addition, we introduce application examples in which SSPDs have been applied.
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