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SmartQuantum launches ultra-low-noise single-photon detector
SmartQuantum has launched an ultra-low-noise single- photon detector . The SQLightSensor is a family of ultra-low-noise near-infrared single- photon detectors for the most demanding scientific, defense and industrial applications …
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Nanowire single-photon detectors are fabricated on MgO substrates
Single- photon detectors are highly desirable for quantum information systems (see ..... his team have fabricated a new type of superconducting single- photon detector (SSPD) based on high-performance nanowire and thin films …
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Single-photon detector operates at 1550 nm
… Technology) has developed a high-sensitivity single- photon detector for 1550-nm photons using an indium gallium arsenide avalanche ..... delays; the main hindrance has been the lack of a single- photon detector in the 1550 nm region the low-loss region for optical …
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Astronomy/optics combination produces single-photon detector
… picosecond superconducting single- photon detector capable of detecting a misfiring transistor ..... the experiments, an NbN single- photon detector was mounted on a cold plate (4.2 K ..... the fastest (>10-GHz) single- photon detector , and the only device that counts …
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SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTORS : Fluorescence microscopy benefits from advances in single-photon detectors
… photon microscope is the photon detector . The sensitivity of photon ..... development of high-sensitivity photon detectors has been central to recent ..... Detection options Modern photon detectors need to have high photon ..... improving the sensitivity of photon detectors in fluorescent microscopes …
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SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTORS : Discrete amplification dramatically improves single-photon detection
… Geiger-mode avalanche photodiodes (APDs), and hybrid photon detectors . The need for ever more sensitive, compact, rugged ..... new generation of multichannel discrete-amplification photon - detector (DAPD) devices, have begun to rival the PMT, with many …
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PHOTOMULTIPLIERS: Solid-state photon detector has low crosstalk
A silicon photomultiplier with two forms of crosstalk suppression is a nearly ideal photon detector for industry, nuclear medicine, and research. Razmick Mirzoyan, Boris Dolgoshein, Arthur Barlow, and Jürgen Schilz Typical …
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Quantum Detectors: Single-photon detectors take quantum leaps
… devices are slow but exhibit no dark counts and have efficiencies in the 20% to 40% range. Superconducting single- photon detectors , on the other hand, are very fast (gigahertz-rate photoresponse, with a jitter in the tens of picoseconds), have …
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Emerging Detector Devices: Nanowires detect individual infrared photons
… superconducting-nanowire single- photon detector enables applications that require ..... equipped with a pair of single- photon detectors -our eyes. Actually, the ..... superconducting nanowire single- photon detector (SNSPD) that has solved these …
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DETECTORS: Diamond dynodes create new breed of photon detectors
Diamond films enable the development of micromachined, large-area, low-noise photon -counting detector arrays in which each pixel is equivalent to a miniaturized photomultiplier tube.
