Speaker
Matthew Shaw
(Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Description
Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors (SNSPDs) are the highest performing detectors available for time-resolved single photon counting from the UV to the mid-infrared. In this talk, we will review recent progress in SNSPD technology, including development of SNSPD arrays for the ground receiver of the NASA Deep Space Optical Communication project. We will discuss recent progress including sub-3ps timing jitter, single-photon sensitivity at wavelengths as long as 10 microns, and the development of kilopixel arrays for time-resolved imaging. We will discuss the potential prospects for using these detectors for QIS applications and the search for dark matter.
Primary author
Matthew Shaw
(Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Co-authors
Andrew Beyer
(Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Boris Korzh
(Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Emma Wollman
(Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Jason Allmaras
(Caltech)
Karl Berggren
(MIT)
Sae Woo Nam
(NIST)
Varun Verma
(NIST)
