How to catch, and detect, a photon (Prof. W. Tittel)
- Datum: 20.05.2016
- Uhrzeit: 11:00 - 13:00
- Vortragende(r): Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Tittel, Institute for Quantum Science and Technology, and Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Calgary, Canada
- Raum: Herbert Walther Lecture Hall
- Gastgeber: MPQ
I will discuss our experimental work on two key ingredients of such networks: a solid-state storage device for quantum states of light, and a detector that promises detecting the presence of photons without destroying them. Both devices employ a Thulium-doped LiNbO3 crystal cooled to a temperature of around 1K.
Biography:
Wolfgang Tittel joined
the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Calgary in
2006 as an Industrial Research Chair in Quantum Cryptography and
Communication. He is also an executive committee member of the
University’s Institute for Quantum Science and Technology, and a senior
Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Professor Tittel
received his MSc from the University of Frankfurt, Germany in 1996, and
his PhD from the University of Geneva, Switzerland in 2000. His work
was seminal in bringing quantum communication out of the laboratory and
into the real world, and was repeatedly selected by the Optical Society
of America and the American Physical Society to be one of the year’s
greatest achievements.