Photon Technology Co., LTD(hereinafter referred to as Photec) is founded and invested by Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology. Photec is committed to the industrialization of superconducting nanowire single photon detector(SNSPD) and its surrounding technology. The SNSPD core product performance reaches international advanced level
As one of the initial council members of Quantum Information Branch of China Information Association, Photec passed ISO9001:2015 quality management system certification in March 2019.
Photec was awarded as the national High-tech Enterprise in November 2019 and won the first prize of Technology Invention Award of China Optical Engineering Society in the same year. The company vision is to provide superconductive devices and systems for quantum information processing with unparallel performance.
The SNSPD system of Photec has been successfully applied in quantum communication, quantum computing, lidar, satellite ranging, quantum random number generator, quantum fingerprint, quantum teleportation and quantum light source characterization, etc. Related applications have boosted China's scientific and technological progress in quantum information and lidar. Users have published more than 60 high-level papers by using SNSPD products developed by Photec, including 3 in Nature, 1 in Science, 4 in Nature Photonics and 17 in PRL. Among them, quantum communication cooperation achievements were twice selected as one of the top ten scientific progress of China in 2014 and 2019. Quantum computing cooperation achievement of "Nine Chapters" optical quantum computing prototype successfully realized "quantum superiority", which was selected as one of the top ten scientific progresses in China in 2020.
Lixing You received his Ph. D. degree from Nanjing University in 2003. He has been engaged in superconducting electronics research at Tohoku University in Japan, Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, University of Twente in the Netherlands, NIST in the United States and University of California, Berkeley, with rich experience in superconducting electronics and applications. In September 2007, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences joined the "Hundred Talents Project". He carries out long-term research on superconducting single photon detector (SNSPD). The device performance of independent research reached the international leading level; The cooperation realized a series of international leading application demonstrations of quantum information and satellite ranging. It has strongly promoted the scientific and technological progress in the field of quantum information in China. In addition, he is the chief scientist of the key research and development program "High Performance Single photon Detection Technology (2017-2022)" of Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology. As the principal, he initiated the formulation of the first international standard of SNSPD (IEC 61788-22-3). In 2016, he founded Photon Technology Co. Ltd and realized the only SNSPD device and system commercial sales in China.
Lixing You has published more than 140 SCI academic papers and 15 authorized invention patents (including 2 international patents). He was invited to international conferences to give lectures for 3 times. The invitation lectures were over 10 times. In 2019, he won the first prize of Technology Invention Award of Chinese Optical Engineering Society (ranked first). In 2018, he won the IEC 1906 Award of International Electrotechnical Commission. In 2014 and 2019, his quantum communication application achievements were awarded as "China's Top Ten Scientific and Technological progress" twice. He is on the editorial board of five journals including Superconductor Science and Technology and Scientific Reports, and deputy editor-in-chief of IEEE CSC SNF. He is a member of International Workshop of Superconducting Sensors and Detectors Series, vice chairman of National Superconducting Standardization Technical Committee, vice chairman of Superconducting Electronics Branch of Chinese Electronics Society, etc.
In 2007, the Single Photon Group of
the Institute of Microsystems was established