Abstract
The past two decades have produced significant advancement in the state-of-the-art for many single-photon technologies. The use of single-photon generation and detection is being pursued over an enormous portion of the electromagnetic spectrum ranging from ultraviolet to millimeter wavelengths, and the breadth of applications that rely on these technologies—including fluorescence techniques, quantum information processing, and photon-starved imaging and communications—continues to grow rapidly. The papers in this special section of Optical Engineering provide a snapshot of some of the recent work that has focused on promising new single-photon component technologies and applications.
Highlights
The past two decades have produced significant advancement in the state-of-the-art for many single-photon technologies
The use of single-photon generation and detection is being pursued over an enormous portion of the electromagnetic spectrum ranging from ultraviolet to millimeter wavelengths, and the breadth of applications that rely on these technologies—including fluorescence techniques, quantum information processing, and photon-starved imaging and communications—continues to grow rapidly. The papers in this special section of Optical Engineering provide a snapshot of some of the recent work that has focused on promising new single-photon component technologies and applications
One of the earliest devices demonstrated to have the ability to detect single photons was the photomultiplier tube (PMT), and the PMT has been a mainstay of single-photon measurements for decades
Summary
The past two decades have produced significant advancement in the state-of-the-art for many single-photon technologies. The papers in this special section of Optical Engineering provide a snapshot of some of the recent work that has focused on promising new single-photon component technologies and applications. One of the earliest devices demonstrated to have the ability to detect single photons was the photomultiplier tube (PMT), and the PMT has been a mainstay of single-photon measurements for decades.
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