3 papers
quant-ph2026
Improved Cryogenic Photodiode Optical Biasing for Low-Noise and Low-Jitter Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors
Jia-Hao Hu, Wei-Jun Zhang, Wen-Shuo Yu +7
We experimentally demonstrate an improved optical biasing scheme for superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs), which employs a cryogenic InGaAs-InP photodiode (PD)…
physics.app-ph2025
Impact of helium ion irradiation on the thermal properties of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors
Yi-Yu Hong, Yu-Ze Wang, Wei-Jun Zhang +12
SNSPDs are indispensable for applications ranging from quantum information processing to deep-space optical communications, owing to their high detection efficiency, low dark count…
quant-ph2025
Photon-number-resolving single-photon detector with a system detection efficiency of 98% and photon-number resolution of 32
Chaomeng Ding, Xingyu Zhang, Jiamin Xiong +8
Efficiently distinguishing photon numbers is a crucial yet challenging technology for various quantum information and quantum metrology applications. While superconducting transiti…