Speaker
M . D Shaw
(Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109-8099)
Description
Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors (SNSPDs) are world-leading detectors for time-resolved single photon counting from the UV to the infrared. We will survey the latest progress in the field of SNSPDs, and discuss recent progress as a community in reducing the energy threshold (as low as 70 meV), increasing the active area (to the 1 mm 2 scale and beyond), and reducing the dark counts (below 10 -5 counts per second). We will discuss the prospects to infuse SNSPDs into future experiments to search for dark matter and probe fundamental physics.
Primary authors
A. D Beyer
(Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109-8099)
M . D Shaw
(Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109-8099)
B. Korzh
(Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109-8099)
E. E. Wollman
(Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109-8099)
J Luskin
(University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742)
