Advances in integrated quantum photonics for quantum sensing and communication

Taposhree Dutta, Atefe Safinezhad, Mariia Zhuldybina, Ignacio Llamas Garro, Jesús Salvador Velázquez-González, Anuj K. Sharma, Bora Ung and Satyendra K. Mishra

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2025, 13, 11521
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Far-field single-molecule vibrational spectroscopy and imaging

Philip A. Kocheril, Haomin Wang, Ryan E. Leighton, Dongkwan Lee, Noor Naji, Wei Min and Lu Wei

Chem. Sci., 2026, 17, 5297
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Atto‐Watt Photo‐Detection at Mid‐Infrared Wavelengths by a Room‐Temperature Balanced Heterodyne Set‐Up

Lorenzo Mancini, Pierfrancesco Ulpiani, Chiara Vecchi, Leonardo Daga, Massimiliano Proietti, Carlo Liorni, Massimiliano Dispenza, Francesco Cappelli, Paolo De Natale, Simone Borri and Daniele Palaferri

Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2026, 20
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Nanogap‐enhanced terahertz suppression of superconductivity

Joonyoung Kim, Gangseon Ji, Hyoung‐Taek Lee, Jeonghoon Kim, Han‐Seok Park, Uksam Choi, Choongwon Seo, Changhee Sohn, Kyungwan Kim, Byeongwon Kang and Hyeong‐Ryeol Park

Nanophotonics, 2025, 14, 5485
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Time delay calibration techniques for receiving arrays in SNSPD-based optical communication systems

Ziyuan Shi, Xiaowei Wu, Yueying Zhan, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Lei Yang and Qiang Wang

Optics Communications, 2024, 569, 130765
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Sensitive infrared surface photovoltage in quasiequilibrium in a layered semiconductor at low-intensity low-temperature conditions

Qiang Wan, Keming Zhao, Guohao Dong, Enting Li, Tianyu Yang, Hao Wang, Yaobo Huang, Yao Wen, Yiwei Li, Jun He, Youguo Shi, Hong Ding and Nan Xu

Phys. Rev. B, 2025, 112
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Advancing Energy Materials by In Situ Atomic Scale Methods

Christian Jooss, Michael Seibt, Martin Wenderoth, Oliver Bünermann, Ole Bunjes, Till Domröse, Christian Eckel, Francesca Falorsi, Christoph Flathmann, Monica Kolek Martinez de Azagra, Matthias Krüger, Jonas Lindner, Tobias Meyer, Claus Ropers, Ulrich Ross, Kai Rossnagel, Sreeju Sreekantan Nair Lalithambika, Simone Techert, Georg A. Traeger, Cynthia Volkert, R. Thomas Weitz and Alec M. Wodtke

Advanced Energy Materials, 2025, 15
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Multispectral MoSi superconducting nanowire single photon detector

Xinyi Liu, Bowen Xie, Mingyuan Sun and Rongzhen Jiao

Optics Communications, 2024, 555, 130241
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High-temperature superconductor based mid-infrared detector

Ankit Kumar, Dmitry Panna, Shlomi Bouscher, Gabriel Natale, Vincent Plisson, Kenneth S. Burch, Amit Kanigel and Alex Hayat

Optics Communications, 2025, 579, 131548
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Singlet Oxygen Photophysics: From Liquid Solvents to Mammalian Cells

Mikkel Bregnhøj, Frederik Thorning and Peter R. Ogilby

Chem. Rev., 2024, 124, 9949
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Saturated single-photon detection up to 5 μm in the mid-infrared using NbN superconducting microstrip detectors

Yu-Ze Wang, Wei-Jun Zhang, Xiao-Qing Zheng, Jia-Hao Hu, Dong-Wei Chu, Hui Zhou, Xiao-Fu Zhang, Hui-Qin Yu, Qian Gong, Chun-Fang Cao, Pu-Sheng Yuan, Wen-Shuo Yu, Xiao-Yu Liu, Ling Wu, Zhen Wang and Li-Xing You

Superconductivity, 2026, 17, 100232
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Recent progress on mid-infrared single-photon detectors and sources for satellite-based quantum key distribution—a review

Liam Flannigan, Mostafa Khalil, Phyllis Chiu and Chang-qing Xu

Quantum Sci. Technol., 2026, 11, 013001
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Influence of superconductor dirtiness on the SNSPD sensitivity-bandwidth trade-off

Souvik Haldar, Yash Sharma and Krishna B. Balasubramanian

Appl. Phys. A, 2025, 131
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Broadband Fourier transform spectroscopy of quantum emitters photoluminescence with sub-nanosecond temporal resolution

Issam Belgacem, Pasquale Cilibrizzi, Muhammad Junaid Arshad, Daniel White, Malte Kroj, Christiaan Bekker, Margherita Mazzera, Brian D. Gerardot, Angelo C. Frangeskou, Gavin W. Morley, Nguyen Tien Son, Jawad Ul-Hassan, Takeshi Ohshima, Hiroshi Abe, Lorenzo Vinco, Dario Polli, Giulio Cerullo and Cristian Bonato

Optica Quantum, 2025, 3, 335
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Improvements of readout signal integrity in mid-infrared superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors

Sahil R. Patel, Marco Colangelo, Andrew D. Beyer, Gregor G. Taylor, Jason P. Allmaras, Bruce Bumble, Emma E. Wollman, Matthew D. Shaw, Karl K. Berggren and Boris Korzh

Applied Physics Letters, 2024, 124
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Mid-infrared characterization of NbTiN superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors on silicon-on-insulator

Adan Azem, Dmitry V. Morozov, Daniel Kuznesof, Ciro Bruscino, Robert H. Hadfield, Lukas Chrostowski and Jeff F. Young

Applied Physics Letters, 2024, 125
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Innovative direct manufacturing of tungsten carbide superconducting nanowires for photon detection applications via pulsed focused ion beam induced deposition

Cristina García-Pérez, Fernando J. Urbanos, Gabriel Caballero, Manuel R. Osorio, Alicia Gómez, Ramón Bernardo-Gavito and Daniel Granados

Materials Today Quantum, 2025, 6, 100043
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Numerical modeling of SNSPD absorption utilizing optical conductivity with quantum corrections

Martin Baránek, Pavol Neilinger, Samuel Kern and Miroslav Grajcar

Opt Quant Electron, 2024, 56
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Cascade switching current detectors based on arrays of Josephson junctions

Roger Cattaneo, Artemii E. Efimov, Kirill I. Shiianov, Oliver Kieler and Vladimir M. Krasnov

Nat Commun, 2025, 16
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Looking Backward and Forward

Alec Wodtke

J. Phys. Chem. A, 2025, 129, 2976
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Controlling the recovery time of the superconducting nanowire single-photon detector with a voltage-controlled cryogenic tunable resistor

H. Wang, N. D. Orlov, N. Noordzij, T. Descamps, J. W. N. Los, V. Zwiller and I. Esmaeil Zadeh

Applied Physics Letters, 2025, 127
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Determination of mid-infrared refractive indices of superconducting thin films using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy

Dip Joti Paul, Tony X. Zhou and Karl K. Berggren

Applied Physics Letters, 2025, 126
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Infrared single-photon detection with superconducting magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene

Giorgio Di Battista, Kin Chung Fong, Andrés Díez-Carlón, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi and Dmitri K. Efetov

Sci. Adv., 2024, 10
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Infrared Optoelectronic Sensing Technology

Weida Hu and Deep Jariwala

IEEE J. Electron Devices Soc., 2025, 13, 1052
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Monte Carlo calculations of cryogenic photodetector readout of scintillating GaAs for dark matter detection

Stephen E. Derenzo

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 2024, 1068, 169791
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Loss-Compensated and Enhanced Midinfrared Interaction-Free Sensing with Undetected Photons

Nathan R. Gemmell, Jefferson Flórez, Emma Pearce, Olaf Czerwinski, Chris C. Phillips, Rupert F. Oulton and Alex S. Clark

Phys. Rev. Applied, 2023, 19
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Photon-Counting Spectrometers Based on Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors

Mingzhong Hu, Jingyuan Zheng, Kaiyu Cui, Wei Zhang and Yidong Huang

Electromag. Sci., 2024, 2, 1
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Control of thin NbN film superconducting properties by ScN buffer layer

N V Porokhov, M A Dryazgov, A R Shevchenko, A M Mumlyakov, Z S Enbaev, Yu V Blinova, D I Devyaterikov, Yu P Korneeva, A A Korneev and M A Tarkhov

Supercond. Sci. Technol., 2026, 39, 025026
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Multiplier Effects of Photodetectors—Source of Gain

Ming Yang, Haoliang Chang, Jinhuan Chen and Xinyu Zhu

Coatings, 2023, 13, 1088
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Looking Backward and Forward

Alec Wodtke

J. Phys. Chem. C, 2025, 129, 6062
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Magnetoconductivity of amorphous films based on molybdenum and tungsten silicide and germanide

P Ercolano, X Zhang, G P Pepe and L You

Supercond. Sci. Technol., 2025, 38, 015011
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Research trends in single-photon detectors based on superconducting wires

Francesco P. Venza and Marco Colangelo

APL Photonics, 2025, 10
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Understanding the Growth Mechanism of HgTe Colloidal Quantum Dots through Bilateral Injection

Hao Yang, Qiong Zhang, Ruiguang Chang, Zhenghui Wu and Huaibin Shen

Inorg. Chem., 2024, 63, 6231
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Enhancing spectroscopy and microscopy with emerging methods in photon correlation and quantum illumination

Chieh Tsao, Haonan Ling, Alex Hinkle, Yifan Chen, Keshav Kumar Jha, Zhen-Li Yan and Hendrik Utzat

Nat. Nanotechnol., 2025, 20, 1001
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A comprehensive study of various superconductors for superconducting nanowire single photon detectors applications

Sangita Tripathy, Kriti Tyagi and Pratiksha Pratap

iScience, 2024, 27, 110779
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Detecting stereoscopic distribution of carbon dioxide using single photon spectroscopy

Youwen Sun, Xiaomin Hu, Pan Yu, Biheng Liu, Jian Li, Yunsheng Dong, Ke Wang, Yanrui Xu, Haobin Zhao and Cheng Liu

Fundamental Research, 2025, 5, 2678
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Waveguide integrated superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors for integrated photonics

Vidur Raj, Adan Azem, Max Patterson, Devendra Kumar Namburi, Jeff F Young and Robert H Hadfield

J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys., 2025, 58, 243001
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Growth of niobium thin films on C-plane and R-plane sapphire substrates for superconducting devices

Tomohiro Hirama, Yasushi Ishiguro and Takashi Tachiki

Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., 2025, 64, 09SP05
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Pushing The Limits of Mid-Wave Infrared Detection with Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors

Eitan Oksenberg, Ronan Gourgues, Steffen Meder, Jona Zöllner, Johannes W. N. Los, Jonathan Finley, Mario Castaneda, O. El Gawhary, S. Witte and I. Moreno

EPJ Web Conf., 2025, 335, 11003
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Superconducting infrared nanobolometers with on-chip photon-sorting metasurfaces

Luyao Tang, Bingxin Chen, Haoran Zhao, Haotian Wu, Xiaomi Yan, Liping Zhu, Xiaohang Zhang, Zhenghua An and Yanru Song

Applied Physics Letters, 2026, 128
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Noise properties of preamplifier to be used with LN2-cooled HgCdTe photodetector

Dmitry V. Kazantsev and Elena A. Kazantseva

Rossijskij tehnologičeskij žurnal, 2025, 13, 122
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Photon‐Counting Compressed Spatial‐Spectral Imaging for 4D Information Retrieval

Mingzhong Hu, Jingyuan Zheng, You Xiao, Hao Li, Lixing You, Yidong Huang and Wei Zhang

Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2026, 20
DOI: 10.1002/lpor.202500618

Advancing LWIR FSO communication through high-speed multilevel signals and directly modulated quantum cascade lasers

Mahdieh Joharifar, Laureline Durupt, Hamza Dely, Armands Ostrovskis, Richard Schatz, Rafael Puerta, Gregory Maisons, Toms Salgals, Djamal Gacemi, Lu Zhang, Sandis Spolitis, Yan-Ting Sun, Vjačeslavs Bobrovs, Xianbin Yu, Angela Vasanelli, Oskars Ozolins, Carlo Sirtori and Xiaodan Pang

Opt. Express, 2024, 32, 29138
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Atomic Oxygen‐Passivated 2D Zr/Ta Telluride Crystals as Saturable Absorbers for High Power Mid‐Infrared Pulse Generation

Weitao Liu, Kunying Liu, Feng Feng, Ruoping Li, Wenpei Zhang, Xi Wang, Junhui Liu and Ke Chen

Adv Funct Materials, 2025
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Mid-infrared high-resolution photon-counting LiDAR

Daniel Kuznesof, Noureldin Amer, Gregor G. Taylor, Sahil R. Patel, Bruce Bumble, Ioana Craiciu, Nidhi Choudhary, Beomgyu Choi, Dmitry V. Morozov, Boris Korzh, Matthew D. Shaw, Emma E. Wollman, Yonuk Chong and Robert H. Hadfield

Opt. Express, 2025, 33, 45684
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Low-noise single-photon counting superconducting nanowire detectors at infrared wavelengths up to 29 µm

Gregor G. Taylor, Alexander B. Walter, Boris Korzh, Bruce Bumble, Sahil R. Patel, Jason P. Allmaras, Andrew D. Beyer, Roger O’Brient, Matthew D. Shaw and Emma E. Wollman

Optica, 2023, 10, 1672
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Mid-infrared Fourier ptychographic upconversion imaging

Tingting Zheng, Zhuohang Wei, Kun Huang, Mengyao Yu, Jianan Fang, Zhaoyang Wen, Jixi Zhang and Heping Zeng

Optica, 2024, 11, 1716
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A 64-pixel mid-infrared single-photon imager based on superconducting nanowire detectors

Benedikt Hampel, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam and Varun B. Verma

Applied Physics Letters, 2024, 124
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Growth Optimization of MoSi Thin Film and Measurement of Transport Critical Current Density of its Meander Structure

Shekhar Chandra Pandey, Shilpam Sharma and Maulindu Kumar Chattopadhyay

Physica Status Solidi (b), 2026, 263
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Ultra‐Sensitive Short‐Wave Infrared Single‐Photon Detection Using a Silicon Single‐Electron Transistor

Pooja Sudha, Shogo Miyagawa, Arup Samanta and Daniel Moraru

Adv Elect Materials, 2025, 11
DOI: 10.1002/aelm.202400714

Enhancing the performance of single-photon avalanche diodes using semiconductor metasurfaces

S. Odinotski, S. Kokilathasan, J. deGooyer, B. van Kasteren, J.-P. Bourgoin, S. V. Grayli and M. E. Reimer

APL Engineering Physics, 2026, 1
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Resonant switching current detector based on underdamped Josephson junctions

Vladimir M. Krasnov

Phys. Rev. Applied, 2024, 22
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Bridging Superconductors With United Nations Development Goals: Perspectives and Applications

Edimar A. S. Duran, Alfonso Pulgar, Rodolfo Izquierdo, Diana M. Koblischka, Anjela Koblischka‐Veneva, Michael R. Koblischka, Maycon Motta, Tiago T. Saraiva, Andrey S. Vasenko and Rafael Zadorosny

Physica Status Solidi (a), 2026, 223
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