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By directly pumping the vacuum (resonant particle production) with intense coherent lights such as ultrashort pulsed lasers and exploring its de-excitation (stimulated resonant particle decay), we can discuss the effects such as virtual charged particle loops and possibly low-mass field exchanges such as axion-like particles which can be sources of dark matter. Up to now, high intensity lasers have been used as pumping lights. This is now being extended to search for axion-like particles in different mass ranges by combining pumping lights of different wavelengths, including microwaves. As the wavelength of the signal light associated with stimulated deexcitation stretches and contracts due to various beam wavelengths, it is necessary to flexibly change the photon sensors used in the search according to the beam wavelengths. We are looking forward to developing the superconducting sensors at QUP needed for the multi-wavelengths pumping.

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