Researchers develop a new detector with over 84% photon detection efficiency and multiple operation modes. NEW YORK, Jan. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Silicon single-photon detectors ...

SNSPDs have been widely used in various applications requiring single photon detection thanks to their attractive performances. Since SNSPDs are thin films of serval nanometers in thickness, they are ...

A team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado, has reported the successful implementation of a 400,000 pixel superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD) ...

Over the past decades, many research teams worldwide have been trying to detect dark matter, an elusive type of matter that does not emit, reflect or absorb light, using a variety of highly sensitive ...

The project in the Quantum Nanophotonics and Faint Photonics Group involves research fabricating and testing new devices and readout architectures for superconducting nanowire single-photon detector ...

A team of researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado, has successfully developed a super-sensitive camera capable of detecting a single photon. This ...

Laser spectroscopy is a powerful tool for atmospheric gas analysis, yet traditional methods face challenges due to atmospheric turbulence and significant energy loss. While dual-comb spectroscopy ...

A project at Switzerland's EPFL research center has developed a new variant of fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) that could substantially accelerate the imaging operation. Described in ...

Researchers developed a fiber-optic quantum random number generator that uses single-photon path superposition and a validated stochastic model to guarantee high-quality quantum randomness. Operating ...