Abstract:This study addresses photon count distortion in four-quadrant superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (QD-SNSPD) under high count rates and positioning difficulties under low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) conditions. The nonlinear correction mechanism for photon counts is studied and an analytical solution for Gaussian spot localization problem is derived. A differential localization method using non-integer power operations is proposed, which increase signal differentiation between positive and negative semi-axes through an exponent n>1 to improve positioning accuracy. Results demonstrate that count correction improves spot localization accuracy under high count rates. Non-integer power operations effectively reduce positioning errors under low SNR conditions. Compared with classical differential localization methods, the 1.4-power operation reduces positioning errors by 27% when SNR < 10. The corrected Gaussian model reduces errors by 70% when SNR > 50. When photon counts exceed 10^4, both the corrected Gaussian model and power operation methods (0.8≤n≤2) achieve a positioning standard deviation below 0.01 times the spot radius. These findings provide substantial support for high-precision spot localization using QD-SNSPDs.