PEACOQ detector (IMAGE)

Optica

PEACOQ detector

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The new detector is made of 32 niobium nitride superconducting nanowires on a silicon chip, which enables high count rates with high precision.

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Ryan Lannom, JPL-Caltech/NASA

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