Quantum detector tomography of a high dynamic-range superconducting nanowire single-photon detector
arXiv:2102.11596 · doi:10.1088/1361-6668/abee9a
Abstract
We demonstrate and verify quantum detector tomography of a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD) in a multiplexing scheme which permits measurement of up to 71000 photons per input pulse. We reconstruct the positive operator valued measure (POVM) of this device in the low photon-number regime, and use the extracted parameters to show the POVMs spanning the whole dynamic range of the device. We verify this by finding the mean photon number of a bright state. Our work shows that a reliable quantum description of large-scale SNSPD devices is possible, and should be applicable to other multiplexing configurations.
arXiv comment6 pages, 3 figures
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