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Single-photon detectors

Scaling up single-photon detector arrays

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Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors offer outstanding performance, but the development of large-format imaging arrays is challenging. A new approach based on sectioning a single nanowire enables an eightfold improvement of the spatial resolution and the realization of a 1,024-pixel imager.

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Fig. 1: Conceptual schematic of the orthogonal time–amplitude multiplexed (OTAM) superconducting nanowire single-photon imager, from Kong et al.

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