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A new photon detector called PEACOQ can register the arrival times of individual photons with the best timing resolution to date. Developed by Matthew Shaw and colleagues at NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...

As infrared light is less susceptible to atmospheric absorption – researchers are pushing to develop single photon detectors that operate in the near and mid infrared. Emerging technologies such as ...

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 ...

Single photon detectors are now known to possess a superior intensity sensitivity; however, the spectral resolution is usually lost after the detection event has occurred. This is a cause for concern ...

Superconducting nanowires can be used to realize high-performance broadband single photon detectors at infrared-visible wavelengths. My ... The successful operation of a single photon detector in ...

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 ...

Researchers from the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology developed the world’s first Superconducting Wide-Strip Photon Detector (SWSPD) by inventing an innovative structure ...

The National Science Foundation will award Don Figer, director of RIT’s Center for Detectors and the Future Photon Initiative, ... NSF will provide more than $315,000 in new funding to researchers ...

For decades, scientists have tried to peer deep inside the human brain using beams of harmless near-infrared light. The technique, called functional near-infrared spectroscopy, or fNIRS, has become a ...

NASA is awarding a team of researchers from RIT and Dartmouth College a grant to develop a detector capable of sensing and counting single photons that could be crucial to future NASA astrophysics ...