The thermally-coupled imager: A scalable readout architecture for
superconducting nanowire single photon detectors
The thermally-coupled imager: A scalable readout architecture for
superconducting nanowire single photon detectors
Although superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) are a promising technology for quantum optics, metrology, and astronomy, they currently lack a readout architecture that is scalable to the megapixel regime and beyond. In this work, we have designed and demonstrated such an architecture for SNSPDs, called the thermally-coupled imager (TCI). The …