Photon-number resolution illustration (IMAGE)

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Photon-number resolution illustration

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Researchers combined multiplexing with superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors to precisely count from 0 to more than 9,000 individual photons. The image is an artistic illustration of the arrival-time histograms that represent the photon-number resolution of the detectors.

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Maximilian Picker, Paderborn University

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