Jun 16, 2020 | News Articles
We demonstrate saturated internal detection efficiency at 1550 nm wavelengths for meander-shaped superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors made of 3 nm thick MoSi films with widths of 1 and 3 μm and active areas up to 400 × 400 μm2. Despite hairpin turns and a...
May 13, 2020 | News Articles
Our group participated to the CLEO2020 conference with four talks. You can find the recordings at the following links: Dr. Mina Bionta Towards Integrated Attosecond Time-Domain Spectroscopy (00:02:05) [also featured in the talk: What’s Next in Ultrafast Optics...
Apr 29, 2020 | News Articles, Uncategorized
MIT Materials Research Laboratory 2019 Summer Scholar Leah Borgsmiller worked on niobium-aluminum thin films for superconducting nanowire single photon detectors in the QNN lab. Borgsmiller grew thin films, measured their superconducting transition temperature and...
Apr 16, 2020 | News Articles
Time- and number-resolved photon detection is crucial for quantum information processing. Existing photon-number-resolving (PNR) detectors usually suffer from limited timing and dark-count performance or require complex fabrication and operation. Here, we demonstrate...
Mar 3, 2020 | News Articles
Improvements in temporal resolution of single-photon detectors enable increased data rates and transmission distances for both classical and quantum optical communication systems, higher spatial resolution in laser ranging, and observation of shorter-lived...
Feb 16, 2020 | News Articles
QNN awarded new SENSE.nano seed grant for the development of nanostructured optical-field samplers for visible to near-infrared time-domain spectroscopy. More information on this project and the other SENSE.nano awards may be found here.