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The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) invented a novel structure in a superconducting strip photon detector that enables highly efficient photon detection even ...

A recently published Yale-led study has taken this hurdle on, developing an on-chip-photon-number-resolving detector that can resolve up to 100 photons. “Our work introduces two degrees of freedom in ...

single photon detector for large OEM application at VIS wavelength. The id101 is the world’s smallest single photon detection module for the visible range. This product targets high-volume OEM ...

Ultrafast, efficient, and reliable single-photon detectors are among the most sought-after components in photonics and quantum communication, which have not yet reached maturity for practical ...

This is a cause for concern regarding low signal infrared spectroscopy applications, as the ability to recover information about a photon’s frequency contribution is essential. In an attempt to ...

In an effort to improve sensors that rely on detecting light, DARPA has embarked on a photon hunt. The agency's Fundamental Limits of Photon Detection, or Detect, project is focusing on better methods ...

The Power HyD detector family from Leica Microsystems offers high performance in spectral coverage, sensitivity & dynamic range in confocal microscopy We have developed a new family of detectors ...

More information: Benedikt Hampel et al, A 64-pixel mid-infrared single-photon imager based on superconducting nanowire detectors, Applied Physics Letters (2024). DOI: 10.1063/5.0178931 Journal ...

In science fiction, starship captains can pick up the phone and talk to headquarters back on Earth in real time. In reality, messages to and from our interplanetary probes take ...

A single-photon detector that could boost the performance of some quantum key distribution (QKD) cryptography systems has been unveiled by Hugo Zbinden and colleagues at the University of Geneva and ...

Photon-X object recognition and analytics combined with VSBLTY facial recognition will provide an advanced screening tool for facilities to identify and validate that someone with a high temperature ...