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physics.ins-det2021

Mid-infrared Single-photon Detection Using Superconducting NbTiN Nanowires with Sub-15 ps Time Resolution in a Gifford-McMahon Cryocooler

Jin Chang, Johannes W. N. Los, Ronan Gourgues +6

Shortly after their inception, superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) became the leading quantum light detection technology. With the capability of detecting sin…

physics.ins-det2020★ 1 cited

A platform for high performance photon correlation measurements

Iman Esmaeil Zadeh, Johannes W. N. Los, Ronan B. M. Gourgues +19

A broad range of scientific and industrial disciplines require precise optical measurements at very low light levels. Single-photon detectors combining high efficiency and high tim…

physics.ins-det2019★ 32 cited

Multimode Fiber Coupled Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors with High Detection Efficiency and Time Resolution

Jin Chang, Iman Esmaeilzadeh, Johannes W. N. Los +7

In the past decade superconducting nanowire single photon detectors (SNSPDs) have gradually become an indispensable part of any demanding quantum optics experiment. Until now, most…

physics.ins-det2019★ 35 cited

High performance superconducting nanowire single photon detectors operating at temperature from 4 to 7 K

Ronan Gourgues, Johannes W. N. Los, Julien Zichi +6

We experimentally investigate the performance of NbTiN superconducting nanowire single photon detectors above the base temperature of a conventional Gifford-McMahon cryocooler (2.5…

physics.ins-det2019★ 1 cited

NbTiN low timing jitter single-photon detectors with unity internal efficiency at 1550 nm and 2.5 K

Julien Zichi, Jin Chang, Stephan Steinhauer +8

The requirements in quantum optics experiments for high single photon detection efficiency, low timing jitter, low dark count rate and short dead time have been fulfilled with the…

physics.ins-det2018★ 24 cited

Photon counting with photon number resolution through superconducting nanowires coupled to a multi-channel TDC in FPGA

N. Lusardi, J. W. N. Los, R. B. M. Gourgues +2

The paper presents a system for measuring photon statistics and photon timing in the few-photon regime down to the single-photon level. The measurement system is based on supercond…