Exploring the Cosmos with Superconducting Detectors - Livestream

Our group at JPL has recently deployed a state of the art SNSPD camera at the Palomar 200-in telescope for NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communication project. This camera will act as the downlink receiver for the Psyche spacecraft (launches in 2022) to demonstrate the viability of laser communication links for ranges up to 400 million kilometers. Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors, or SNSPDs, are among the highest performing detectors in the ultraviolet to mid-infrared wavelengths with specialized designs achieving

Speaker: Alex Walter, Jet Propultion Laboratory

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