A research team led by Pasquale Scarlino at EPFL has built a small, tunable detector capable of sensing individual microwave ...

Detecting a single particle of light is hard; detecting a single microwave photon is even harder. Microwave photons, the tiny ...

Physicists have developed a spectral-filtering technique that strips away unwanted extra photons from quantum light sources, ...

In quantum technologies, everything depends on the ability to detect the properties carried by a single photon. But in the ...

Researchers have shown that a single photon carrying quantum information can travel down kilometers of noisy real-world fiber ...

Researchers develop a new detector with over 84% photon detection efficiency and multiple operation modes NEW YORK, Jan. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Silicon single-photon detectors (Si SPDs) play a ...

Quantum dots, semiconductor nanostructures exhibiting discrete energy levels, have emerged as quintessential quantum emitters for on‐demand single-photon generation. Their unique confinement ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

Researchers at Purdue University have achieved a long-sought milestone, demonstrating what they call a “photonic transistor” that operates at single-photon intensities. There are few technologies more ...

The increasing demand for advanced optoelectronic devices necessitates the development of materials that can efficiently absorb and manipulate light at the nanoscale. This research explores the unique ...

A project at Switzerland's EPFL research center has developed a new variant of fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) that could substantially accelerate the imaging operation. Described in ...