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Advanced Photon Counting Techniques

Fractal superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors and their applications in polarimetric imaging

Xiaolong Hu, Yun Meng, Kai Zou, Nan Hu, Zifan Hao, Yifan Feng, Liang Xu, Xiaojian Lan, Xiaoming Chi, Yuhao Cheng, Chao Gu, Xiaotian Zhu, Thomas Descamps, Adrian Iovan, Stephan Steinhauer, Samuel Gyger, Julien Zichi, Val Zwiller

Published Apr 19, 2024• 4 citations
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Abstract

In this paper, we review the research and development of the fractal superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs), including our demonstrations of high-performance devices and systems with over 80% system detection efficiency, negligibly low residual polarization sensitivity, and low timing jitter. Using the fractal SNSPDs, we demonstrate full-Stokes polarimetric imaging LiDAR.

DOI
10.1117/12.3014568

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