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most citedA superconducting-nanowire single-photon camera with 400,000 pixels

118 citations · 473 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

quant-ph2026

Quantum Position Verification with Remote Untrusted Devices

Gautam A. Kavuri, Yanbao Zhang, Abigail R. Gookin +16

Position information underpins many modern technologies, from navigation and timing to authentication and critical infrastructure. However, classical methods of proving that inform…

physics.ins-det2025★ 2 cited

Tungsten Germanide Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors with Saturated Internal Detection Efficiency at Wavelengths up to 29 μm

Benedikt Hampel, Daniel Kuznesof, Andrew S. Mueller +13

Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) are among the most sensitive single-photon detectors available and have the potential to transform fields ranging from inf…

physics.optics2025

Heterogeneous tantala photonic integrated circuits for sub-micron wavelength applications

Nima Nader, Eric J. Stanton, Grant M. Brodnik +8

Atomic and trapped-ion systems are the backbone of a new generation of quantum-based positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) technologies. The miniaturization of such quantum sys…

quant-ph2024★ 8 cited

Traceable random numbers from a nonlocal quantum advantage

Gautam A. Kavuri, Jasper Palfree, Dileep V. Reddy +20

The unpredictability of random numbers is fundamental to both digital security and applications that fairly distribute resources. However, existing random number generators have li…

quant-ph2024★ 9 cited

Coherent Control of an Optical Quantum Dot Using Phonons and Photons

Ryan A DeCrescent, Zixuan Wang, Joseph T Bush +6

Genuine quantum-mechanical effects are readily observable in modern optomechanical systems comprising bosonic ("classical") optical resonators. Here we describe unique features and…

quant-ph2023★ 4 cited

Gated InAs quantum dots embedded in surface acoustic wave cavities for low-noise optomechanics

Zixuan Wang, Ryan A. DeCrescent, Poolad Imany +5

Self-assembled InAs quantum dots (QDs) are promising optomechanical elements due to their excellent photonic properties and sensitivity to local strain fields. Microwave-frequency…

physics.app-ph2023

Programmable Superconducting Optoelectronic Single-Photon Synapses with Integrated Multi-State Memory

Bryce A. Primavera, Saeed Khan, Richard P. Mirin +2

The co-location of memory and processing is a core principle of neuromorphic computing. A local memory device for synaptic weight storage has long been recognized as an enabling el…

physics.app-ph2023

Monolithic Integration of Superconducting-Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors with Josephson Junctions for Scalable Single-photon Sensing

Saeed Khan, Bryce A. Primavera, Richard P. Mirin +2

We demonstrate superconducting single-photon detectors that integrate signals locally at each pixel. This capability is realized by the monolithic integration of superconducting-na…

physics.optics2023

Monolithic Polarizing Circular Dielectric Gratings on Bulk Substrates for Improved Photon Collection from InAs Quantum Dots

Ryan A. DeCrescent, Zixuan Wang, Poolad Imany +3

III-V semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) are near-ideal and versatile single-photon sources. Because of the capacity for monolithic integration with photonic structures as well as op…

quant-ph2023★ 23 cited

A 64-pixel mid-infrared single-photon imager based on superconducting nanowire detectors

Benedikt Hampel, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam +1

A large-format mid-infrared single-photon imager with very low dark count rates would enable a broad range of applications in fields like astronomy and chemistry. Superconducting n…

quant-ph2023★ 118 cited

A superconducting-nanowire single-photon camera with 400,000 pixels

Bakhrom G. Oripov, Dana S. Rampini, Jason Allmaras +4

For the last 50 years, superconducting detectors have offered exceptional sensitivity and speed for detecting faint electromagnetic signals in a wide range of applications. These d…

cs.LG2023★ 13 cited

Multiplexed gradient descent: Fast online training of modern datasets on hardware neural networks without backpropagation

Adam N. McCaughan, Bakhrom G. Oripov, Natesh Ganesh +3

We present multiplexed gradient descent (MGD), a gradient descent framework designed to easily train analog or digital neural networks in hardware. MGD utilizes zero-order optimiza…

physics.app-ph2022

Demonstration of Superconducting Optoelectronic Single-Photon Synapses

Saeed Khan, Bryce A. Primavera, Jeff Chiles +10

Superconducting optoelectronic hardware is being explored as a path towards artificial spiking neural networks with unprecedented scales of complexity and computational ability. Su…

cond-mat.supr-con2021★ 38 cited

The thermally-coupled imager: A scalable readout architecture for superconducting nanowire single photon detectors

Adam N. McCaughan, Yao Zhai, Boris Korzh +4

Although superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) are a promising technology for quantum optics, metrology, and astronomy, they currently lack a readout architectu…

physics.app-ph2021★ 2 cited

Impedance-matched differential superconducting nanowire detectors

Marco Colangelo, Boris Korzh, Jason P. Allmaras +24

Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) are the highest performing photon-counting technology in the near-infrared (NIR). Due to delay-line effects, large area SN…

cond-mat.supr-con2021★ 15 cited

PHIDL: Python CAD layout and geometry creation for nanolithography

A. N. McCaughan, A. M. Tait, S. M. Buckley +4

Computer-aided design (CAD) has become a critical element in the creation of nanopatterned structures and devices. In particular, with the increased adoption of easy-to-learn progr…

physics.optics2020★ 20 cited

Microring resonator-coupled photoluminescence from silicon W~centers

A. N. Tait, S. M. Buckley, J. Chiles +6

Defect centers are promising candidates for waveguide-integrated silicon light sources. We demonstrate microresonator- and waveguide-coupled photoluminescence from silicon W~center…

physics.app-ph2019

Microresonator-enhanced, Waveguide-coupled Emission from Silicon Defect Centers for Superconducting Optoelectronic Networks

A. N. Tait, S. M. Buckley, A. N. McCaughan +4

Superconducting optoelectronic networks could achieve scales unmatched in hardware-based neuromorphic computing. After summarizing recent progress in this area, we report new resul…

quant-ph2019★ 86 cited

Quantum Frequency Conversion of a Quantum Dot Single-Photon Source on a Nanophotonic Chip

Anshuman Singh, Qing Li, Shunfa Liu +10

Single self-assembled InAs/GaAs quantum dots are promising bright sources of indistinguishable photons for quantum information science. However, their distribution in emission wave…

quant-ph2017★ 29 cited

Entanglement between more than two hundred macroscopic atomic ensembles in a solid

P. Zarkeshian, C. Deshmukh, N. Sinclair +12

We create a multi-partite entangled state by storing a single photon in a crystal that contains many large atomic ensembles with distinct resonance frequencies. The photon is re-em…

quant-ph2015★ 66 cited

Tomography of photon-number resolving continuous-output detectors

Peter C. Humphreys, Benjamin J. Metcalf, Thomas Gerrits +7

We report a comprehensive approach to analysing continuous-output photon detectors. We employ principal component analysis to maximise the information extracted, followed by a nove…

quant-ph2010★ 40 cited

Operating quantum waveguide circuits with superconducting single-photon detectors

C. M. Natarajan, A. Peruzzo, S. Miki +6

Advanced quantum information science and technology (QIST) applications place exacting de- mands on optical components. Quantum waveguide circuits offer a route to scalable QIST on…