Harnessing Quantum Wave Nature of Individual Electrons for Single Photon Detection
Yang Zhang, Yang Wu, Xiaoxin Wang, Eric R. Fossum, Rahul Kumar, Jifeng Liu, Gregory J. Salamo, Shui-Qing Yu · Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics · 2018
We propose and examine theoretically a new type of photodetector that senses THz single photons by the wavefunction change of a single electron confined in a quantum dot. A possible readout scheme is also presented.