Workshop Presentations

Single Photon Counting Detectors

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Opening Workshop: January 25-29, 2010
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA 91125

James Beletic, Teledyne Single Photon Counting in
the X-ray, Visible and Infrared (pdf)
Juan Bueno, CSIC-INTA Optical Characterization of the Quantum
Capacitance Detector (QCD) (pdf)
Bill Cottingame, Northrup Grumman Requirements and Candidates
for Ladar Single-Photon
Detector Arrays (pdf)
Pierre Echternach, JPL Proof of Concept of the Quantum
Capacitance Detector (pdf)
Bill Farr, JPL Photon Counting Detectors for
Laser Communications and
Interplanetary Light Science (pdf)
[video presentation]

Don Figer, Rochester Imaging Detector Lab

Developing and Deploying Single Photon Counting Array Detectors (pdf) [video presentation]
Scott Fraser, Caltech Potential Biomedical Applications (pdf)
[video presentation]

Sasha Hinkley, Caltech

High-Contrast Imaging and Exoplanet
Applications (pdf) [video presentation]

Michael Hoenk, JPL

Delta Doping Technology for UV Photon Counting Detector Arrays (pdf)

Kent Irwin, NIST

Photon Detection with the TES: Gamma-Rays to the CMB
Technology for a Mega-Pixel Imager (pdf)
Boris Karasik, JPL Superconducting Hot-Electron Nanobolometer for FIR and Mid-IR Single-Photon Spectroscopy (pdf)
Teun Klapwijk, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft Resistive Superconducting Films for
Photonsensing Devices
Conventional Superconductivity in
'Bad Metals.' (pdf)
Chao-Lin Kuo, Stanford Photon Counting Astronomy with TES (pdf)
Yuhwa Lo, UCSD New Concepts of IR Single-
Photon Detectors (pdf) [video presentation]
Peter Mao, Caltech Energy Resolved Imaging in X‐Ray
Astrophysics (pdf)
Chris Martin, Caltech Applications for UV Photon Counting Detectors: Mapping the Hidden Cosmic Web of Baryons (pdf)
Ben Mazin, UCSB Optical/UV Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs) (pdf)
Alan Migdall, Caltech Single-Photon Detector & Metrology Efforts at NIST (pdf) [video presentation]
Patrick Morrissey, Caltech Delta Doped L3 CCD Imagers for Low Surface Brightness UV Astronomy: From GALEX to the IGM (pdf)
Sae Woo Nam, NIST NIST Optical Photon Detectors (UV to
NIR) for Quantum Information
Mega-pixel TES camera (pdf)
Oskar Painter, Caltech Nanooptomechanics: Utilizing Light Forces Within Guidedwave Nanostructures (pdf)
Dan Prober, Yale University Superconducting Single
Photon Detectors (pdf) [video presentation]
Dan Santavicca, Yale University Energy Resolution of THz
Single-Photon-Sensitive
Bolometric Detectors (pdf)
Dave Schiminovich, Columbia University UV Photon Counting Detectors:
Past and Future Challenges (pdf)
Andrei Sergeev, SUNY at Buffalo Quantum Noise Limit in Ultrasensitive Nanodetectors: Counting of Phonons (pdf)
Roman Sobolewski, University of Rochester Superconducting single-photon
detectors as photon-energy and
polarization resolving devices (pdf)
John Vallerga, UC Berkeley Microchannel Plate Single Photon
Imaging Detectors for Astronomy - Do They Need to be Replaced? (pdf)
Nai-Chang Yeh, Caltech Novel Nano-Engineered Semiconductors for Possible Photon Sources and Detectors (pdf)
Jonas Zmuidzinas, Caltech MKIDS: Prospects for the far‐IR (pdf)

For questions contact: Paul Goldsmith, Jonas Zmuidzinas or Michele Judd.


©2010 Caltech

Study Co-Lead Paul Goldsmith from JPL giving the introduction to the January 2010 opening workshop for the study.

Paul Goldsmith

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Video is posted for some presentations, but not all.