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 ...

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 ...

Scientists Develop Highly Sensitive and Tunable Infrared Detector. 1mo. Reviewed by Lexie CornerDec 13 2024. Debashis Chanda, ... Extreme Photon Imaging Capabilities program, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Artilux, the leader of GeSi (germanium-silicon) photonics technology and pioneer of CMOS (complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor) based SWIR (short-wavelength infrared) single photon detection ...

Near-infrared SPDs at the telecommunication wavelength of 1550 nm are indispensible for fiber-optic QKD, with choices including cryogenic superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPD ...

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, more than $315,000 over the next year to continue work on a grant to ...

from USD 535 million in 2023 to USD 751 million.people-sensing solutions are driving the market. Infrared detector market for NIR & SWIR is expected to grow at highest CAGR during the forecast ...

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 ...