Nathan A. Tomlin

TL;DR: In this paper, an integrated photon-number resolving detector, operating in the telecom band at 1550 nm, employing an evanescently coupled design that allows the detector to be placed at arbitrary locations within a planar optical circuit.

TL;DR: The need for very black coatings is persistent for a variety of applications ranging from baffles and traps to blackbodies and thermal detectors as discussed by the authors, which is attributable to the intrinsic properties of graphitic material as well as the morphology (density, thickness, disorder, and tube size).

TL;DR: This work lights a photon-number-resolving transition edge sensor with strong pulses of light containing up to 6.7 million photons and shows that the sensor operates from the single-photon-counting regime to picowatt levels of light and that the detection noise is below shot-noise for up to 1000 photons.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors showed that a conventional tungsten-TES can be operated with jitter times of < 4 ns, well within the timing resolution necessary for MHz clocking of experiments and providing an important practical simplification for experiments that rely on the simultaneous closing of both efficiency and locality loopholes.

TL;DR: Oxygen plasma treatment was used to lower the reflectance of multiwall vertically-aligned carbon nanotubes (VACNT) as mentioned in this paper, which showed a decrease in reflectance from 300-2400 nm, with up to 8 times lower reflectance at short wavelengths.