@article{50840,
  abstract     = {{<jats:p>Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) have been widely used to study the discrete nature of quantum states of light in the form of photon-counting experiments. We show that SNSPDs can also be used to study continuous variables of optical quantum states by performing homodyne detection at a bandwidth of 400 kHz. By measuring the interference of a continuous-wave field of a local oscillator with the field of the vacuum state using two SNSPDs, we show that the variance of the difference in count rates is linearly proportional to the photon flux of the local oscillator over almost five orders of magnitude. The resulting shot-noise clearance of (46.0 ± 1.1) dB is the highest reported clearance for a balanced optical homodyne detector, demonstrating their potential for measuring highly squeezed states in the continuous-wave regime. In addition, we measured a CMRR = 22.4 dB. From the joint click counting statistics, we also measure the phase-dependent quadrature of a weak coherent state to demonstrate our device’s functionality as a homodyne detector.</jats:p>}},
  author       = {{Protte, Maximilian and Schapeler, Timon and Sperling, Jan and Bartley, Tim}},
  issn         = {{2837-6714}},
  journal      = {{Optica Quantum}},
  number       = {{1}},
  publisher    = {{Optica Publishing Group}},
  title        = {{{Low-noise balanced homodyne detection with superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors}}},
  doi          = {{10.1364/opticaq.502201}},
  volume       = {{2}},
  year         = {{2024}},
}

@article{33670,
  author       = {{Schapeler, Timon and Bartley, Tim}},
  issn         = {{2469-9926}},
  journal      = {{Physical Review A}},
  number       = {{1}},
  publisher    = {{American Physical Society (APS)}},
  title        = {{{Information extraction in photon-counting experiments}}},
  doi          = {{10.1103/physreva.106.013701}},
  volume       = {{106}},
  year         = {{2022}},
}

@article{23727,
  author       = {{Schapeler, Timon and Höpker, Jan Philipp and Bartley, Tim}},
  issn         = {{0953-2048}},
  journal      = {{Superconductor Science and Technology}},
  title        = {{{Quantum detector tomography of a high dynamic-range superconducting nanowire single-photon detector}}},
  doi          = {{10.1088/1361-6668/abee9a}},
  year         = {{2021}},
}

@article{37933,
  abstract     = {{<jats:p>We present a time-over-threshold readout technique to count the number of activated pixels from an array of superconducting nanowire single photon detectors (SNSPDs). This technique places no additional heatload on the cryostat, and retains the intrinsic count rate of the time-tagger. We demonstrate proof-of-principle operation with respect to a four-pixel device. Furthermore, we show that, given some permissible error threshold, the number of pixels that can be reliably read out scales linearly with the intrinsic signal-to-noise ratio of the individual pixel response.</jats:p>}},
  author       = {{Tiedau, Johannes and Schapeler, Timon and Anant, Vikas and Fedder, Helmut and Silberhorn, Christine and Bartley, Tim}},
  issn         = {{1094-4087}},
  journal      = {{Optics Express}},
  keywords     = {{Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics}},
  number       = {{4}},
  publisher    = {{Optica Publishing Group}},
  title        = {{{Single-channel electronic readout of a multipixel superconducting nanowire single photon detector}}},
  doi          = {{10.1364/oe.383111}},
  volume       = {{28}},
  year         = {{2020}},
}

@article{20156,
  author       = {{Schapeler, Timon and Höpker, Jan Philipp and Bartley, Tim}},
  issn         = {{1094-4087}},
  journal      = {{Optics Express}},
  title        = {{{Quantum detector tomography of a 2×2 multi-pixel array of superconducting nanowire single photon detectors}}},
  doi          = {{10.1364/oe.404285}},
  year         = {{2020}},
}