A 400,000 Pixel Superconducting Camera (VIDEO)

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

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Animation depicts the special readout system that made it possible for NIST researchers to build a 400,000 superconducting-nanowire single-photon camera, the highest resolution camera of its type. With further improvements, the camera will be ideal for such low-light endeavors as imaging faint galaxies or planets that lie beyond the solar system, measuring light in photon-based quantum computers, and biomedical studies that use near-infrared light to peer into human tissue.

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S. Kelley/NIST

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