Photon counting reconstructive spectrometer combining metasurfaces and superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors

Jingyuan Zheng; You Xiao; Mingzhong Hu; Yuchen Zhao; Hao Li; Lixing You; Xue Feng; Fang Liu; Kaiyu Cui; Yidong Huang; Wei Zhang

doi:10.1364/PRJ.469221

Photonics Research, Volume. 11, Issue 2, 234(2023)

Photon counting reconstructive spectrometer combining metasurfaces and superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors

Jingyuan Zheng^1、†, You Xiao^2、†, Mingzhong Hu¹, Yuchen Zhao¹, Hao Li², Lixing You², Xue Feng^1,3, Fang Liu^1,3, Kaiyu Cui^1,3, Yidong Huang^1,3,4, and Wei Zhang^1,3,4、*

Author Affiliations

¹Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology (BNRist), Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

²State Key Laboratory of Functional Materials for Informatics, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China

³Frontier Science Center for Quantum Information, Beijing 100084, China

⁴Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences, Beijing 100193, China

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Paper Information

Category: Nanophotonics and Photonic Crystals

Received: Jul. 5, 2022

Accepted: Dec. 7, 2022

Published Online: Feb. 8, 2023

The Author Email: Wei Zhang (zwei@tsinghua.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.469221

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