Scaling detection and characterization methods of photon-number-resolving superconducting detectors / Timon Schapeler. Paderborn, 2026
Inhalt
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Author publications and contributions
- Introduction
- Scalable quantum detector tomography for high-dynamic-range photon counting
- Establishing the experimental testbed
- Reaching scalability of large-scale detector characterization
- Interpreting positive operator-valued measures
- Publication 2.1: Supercond. Sci. Technol. 34, 064002 (2021)
- Publication 2.2: Quantum Sci. Technol. 10, 015018 (2024)
- Publication 2.3: Phys. Rev. A 106, 013701 (2022)
- Photon-number resolution with SNSPDs
- Locating photon-number information on SNSPD electrical traces
- Modeling photon-number-dependent jitter
- Characterizing photon-number assignment
- PNR SNSPD methods – continued
- Publication 3.1: Phys. Rev. Applied 22, 014024 (2024)
- Publication 3.2: APL Photonics 10, 086113 (2025)
- Publication 3.3: APL Quantum 3, 016102 (2026)
- Scalable high-dynamic-range photon counting
- Conclusion and outlook
- Scalable detector characterization based on QDT
- Advances in intrinsic PNR with SNSPDs
- Scalability of photon-number-resolving detectors
- Outlook: frontiers of SNSPDs in the context of PNR & future research directions
- Bibliography
- Appendix
- Statement on the use of artificial intelligence
- Arrival-time measurements based on thermal statistics
- Acknowledgements