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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The photo counter market is expected to grow significantly worldwide between 2025 and 2035, with a compound annual growth ...