Optimizing photon-number resolution with superconducting nanowire multi-photon detectors

2025/05/14 by Schapeler, Timon, Schlue, Fabian, Stefszky, Michael +3 · 1 citation
#FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2505.09271

Abstract

In this paper we briefly review the state-of-the-art of intrinsic photon-number resolution (PNR) with superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) and will provide an overview of the various experimental techniques employed to achieve PNR. Additionally, we introduce a resolvability criterion to PNR based on SNSPDs.

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