Grant: Research Tools and Instruments
École Polytechnique de Montréal
$149,675.00
Superconducting single photon detectors for quantum optics and spectroscopy up to 2.5 microns
FY 2019-20
Summary
Quantum optics has been a major contributor to the exploration and understanding of some of the most extraordinary concepts in physics, such as photon antibunching and coalescence, vacuum Rabi oscillations, entanglement, and teleportation. These and other related concepts are now being exploited as resources to develop new and enhanced technologies in the fields of metrology, sensing, communications and computations. ***In recent years, our team has made seminal contributions in connection to these technologies: we have developed single photon emitters with large optical dipole moments, we have applied and refined coherent control of quantum states in single hole systems, we have resolved for the first time the quantum statistics of electric fields (including that of the vacuum) on subcycle time scales, we have developed new tools and methods for precision spectroscopy, we apply techniques of epitaxial growth to deposit isotopically enriched semiconductors as well as new group-IV materials for both classical and quantum technologies. ***To support these activities and the research program described in this proposal, our team requests a high quantum efficiency Superconducting Single Photon Detector (SSPD) system optimized for fast temporal response and high count rates in the wavelength range from 1.6 to 2.5 microns. Currently unavailable at Polytechnique and the Université de Montréal, this important tool will provide the means to address several outstanding opportunities in the field of quantum optics and semiconductor quantum technologies: the realization of highly-coherent quantum light sources for silicon quantum photonics, the demonstration of the first high-sensitivity single-photon detector operating in the 1-20 THz band, and the development of new class of materials where two-dimensional gas of high-mobility light-holes holds great promise for applications in quantum technologies. ***By enabling research of the highest caliber at the forefront in quantum optics and semiconductor quantum technologies, this instrumentation will serve to further enhance Canada's research competitiveness and play an important role in attracting and training HQP of the highest quality. *****
Program
Research Tools and Instruments
Recipient
Location
Quebec, Canada
Recipient Type
Academia
Type
Grant
Source
NSERC's Awards Data
As published
Application id
RTI-2020-00847
Name nom
Francoeur, Sébastien
Department département
Génie physique
Organization id
64
Institution établissement
École Polytechnique de Montréal
Province en
Québec
Province fr
Québec
Country en
CANADA
Country fr
CANADA
Fiscal year exercice financier
2019
Competition year année de concours
2020
Award amount
149675
Program id
RTI
Program name en
Research Tools and Instruments
Program name fr
Outils et instruments de recherche
Group en
DISCOVERY RESEARCH
Group fr
RECHERCHE AXÉE SUR LA DÉCOUVERTE
Committee code
1605
Committee name en
Physics (RTI)
Committee name fr
Physique (OIR)
Area of application code
1202
Area of application group en
Advancement of knowledge
Area of application group fr
Avancement des connaissances
Area of application en
Physical sciences
Area of application fr
Sciences physiques
Research subject code
3110
Research subject group en
Physics
Research subject group fr
Physique
Research subject en
Optics (see also photon devices2505)
Research subject fr
Optique (voir aussi dispositifs photoniques, 2505)
Installment
inst:1 - 1
Partie
1
Nb partie
1
Application title
Superconducting single photon detectors for quantum optics and spectroscopy up to 2.5 microns
Keyword
NSERC
Application summary
Quantum optics has been a major contributor to the exploration and understanding of some of the most extraordinary concepts in physics, such as photon antibunching and coalescence, vacuum Rabi oscillations, entanglement, and teleportation. These and other related concepts are now being exploited as resources to develop new and enhanced technologies in the fields of metrology, sensing, communications and computations. ***In recent years, our team has made seminal contributions in connection to these technologies: we have developed single photon emitters with large optical dipole moments, we have applied and refined coherent control of quantum states in single hole systems, we have resolved for the first time the quantum statistics of electric fields (including that of the vacuum) on subcycle time scales, we have developed new tools and methods for precision spectroscopy, we apply techniques of epitaxial growth to deposit isotopically enriched semiconductors as well as new group-IV materials for both classical and quantum technologies. ***To support these activities and the research program described in this proposal, our team requests a high quantum efficiency Superconducting Single Photon Detector (SSPD) system optimized for fast temporal response and high count rates in the wavelength range from 1.6 to 2.5 microns. Currently unavailable at Polytechnique and the Université de Montréal, this important tool will provide the means to address several outstanding opportunities in the field of quantum optics and semiconductor quantum technologies: the realization of highly-coherent quantum light sources for silicon quantum photonics, the demonstration of the first high-sensitivity single-photon detector operating in the 1-20 THz band, and the development of new class of materials where two-dimensional gas of high-mobility light-holes holds great promise for applications in quantum technologies. ***By enabling research of the highest caliber at the forefront in quantum optics and semiconductor quantum technologies, this instrumentation will serve to further enhance Canada's research competitiveness and play an important role in attracting and training HQP of the highest quality. *****
