We report on the first integrated superconducting nanowire single photon detectors (SNSPDs) that are optimised for short-wave infrared (SWIR) photons at 2.1μm. The SNSPDs presented in this work are one of the building blocks of quantum information processing with silicon, beyond infrared.
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