Superconducting Devices in Quantum Optics

• Part I Superconducting single –photon detectors in quantum optics.- Superconducting nanowire architectures for single photon detection.- Photon number resolving transition edge sensors in quantum optics.- Waveguide integrated SNSPDs in GaAs.- Waveguide integrated SNSPDs in silicon photonic circuits.- Part II Microwave quantum optics with superconducting circuits.- Single photonics at microwave frequencies.- Entanglement in superconducting circuits.- Quantum measurement and feedback.- Quantum feedback.- Part III Enabling future quantum interfaces and networks.- Interfacing solid state qubits and telecom wavelength photons via superconducting detectors.- Quantum information networks with superconducting single photon detectors.- Surface Acoustic Waves and circuit QED.

“It provides an excellent overview of the present state of the art for postgraduate students and researchers entering the field. … Overall, this is a very timely work, which should be of interest to a wide range of researchers in quantum-optical technologies.” (Mark Fox, Optics & Photonics News, osa-opn-org, July, 2016)