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ABSTRACT

The Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica and SINPHONIA announce the third workshop on single-photon detectors, applications and measurement methods as a follow up to the workshops held at NIST in 2003 and NPL in 2005.

The workshop is intended to bring together people with interests in single photon detectors, single photon sources, low photon sources and developments in photo-detection. The development of new single photon sources and single photon counting detectors, most of them based on nanostructured devices, is driven by the emergence of many applications requiring such devices. These applications, such as quantum cryptography, quantum computation, correlated photon metrology, quantum imaging, quantum interferometry etc, comprise a new area of endeavour known as Quantum Information Technologies (QIT). For each application, different properties of the devices are required. Very few, if any, of the ‘ideal’ required characteristics are realised at present.

The workshop will be an opportunity for researchers from universities, industrialists and metrologists to report on current and future developments in these areas. We also welcome papers from areas of photon-detection research such as astrophysics, nuclear physics, biology, etc... .

The intended outcomes of this workshop: for the community to continue working together and inform each other of developments and needs in this area and identify other applications that operate in low photon counting regimes.