• Controlling a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector using tailored bright illumination 

      Lydersen, Lars Vincent Van de Wiel; Akhlaghi, Mohsen K.; Majedi, A. Hamed; Skaar, Johannes; Makarov, Vadim (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      We experimentally demonstrate that a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector is deterministically controllable by bright illumination. We found that bright light can temporarily make a large fraction of the nanowire ...
    • Controlling passively quenched single photon detectors by bright light 

      Makarov, Vadim (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2009)
      Single photon detectors (SPDs) based on passively quenched avalanche photodiodes can be temporarily blinded by relatively bright light, of intensity less than 1nW. A bright-light regime suitable for attacking a quantum key ...