PHASE-ONLY SHAPING OF LIGHT PULSES FOR APPLICATIONS IN QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES
A research project within the First Team Programme of the Foundation for Polish Science
THE PROJECT
Optical pulses form the backbone of photonic technologies. Their key characteristics are their temporal profile and their frequency spectrum. Experimentally, only one of these two parameters can be easily accessed, due to the incompatibility of time and frequency resolutions of detection and manipulation devices. The power of quantum mechanics manifests itself chiefly through the superposition principle: if two states of a system are valid quantum states, then their superposition is also a valid quantum state. The emerging quantum technologies are based on the ability to create, manipulate and detect quantum superpositions, which relies on the ability to access conjugate variables, such as the time and frequency for single-photon pulses. Here we will use novel tools to experimentally access temporal and spectral characteristics of quantum light pulses. We will manipulate and detect their quantum superpositions, and demonstrate their applications in quantum networks and metrology.
PROJECT GOALS
Experimentally modify the spectral and temporal properties of single-photon pulses. We will convert photons from solid-state emitters to photons fully compatible with high-bandwidth telecommunication channels. We will investigate applications of shaped quantum light pulses in quantum metrology.
EXPECTED OUTCOMES
Construction of electro-optic and nonlinear optical devices enabling modification of spectral-temporal properties of single-photon pulses. Training of scientists towards their Master’s and PhD theses and training of post-doctoral researchers.
PRACTICALITIES
The project is carried out at the Quantum Photonics Lab at the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw under the lead of Dr Michał Karpiński, in collaboration with prof. Nicolas Treps from Sorbonne University in Paris, prof. Peter G. R. Smith at the Optoelectronics Research Centre in Southampton, UK, prof. Christian Becher at the Saaraland University in Germany, Dr Robert Keil form the University of Innsbruck in Austria, Prof. Paul Kwiat from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) and the French Quandela company! The project is financed through the FIRST TEAM programme of the Foundation for Polish Science. The total value of the project is 2 915 024 PLN (approx. 600 kEUR). It is fully funded by the European Union’s European Regional Development Fund.
PROJECT PUBLICATIONS
Interface between picosecond and nanosecond quantum light pulses
Filip Sośnicki, Michał Mikołajczyk, Ali Golestani, Michał Karpiński
Nature Photonics (2023).
An early preprint is available at: https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.05112
Electro-optic Fourier transform chronometry of pulsed quantum light
Ali Golestani, Alex O. C. Davis, Filip Sośnicki, Michał Mikołajczyk, Nicolas Treps, Michał Karpiński
Physical Review Letters 129, 123605 (2022).
arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.11554
Theory from Paris & Bath, experiment from Warsaw!
Aberration-corrected time aperture of an electro-optic time lens
Sanjay Kapoor, Filip Sośnicki, Michał Karpiński
arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.07618 (2022).
Control and measurement of quantum light pulses for quantum information science and technology
Michał Karpiński, Alex O. C. Davis, Filip Sośnicki, Valérian Thiel, Brian J. Smith
Advanced Quantum Technologies 4, 2000150 (2021).
Review paper.
Actuator placement optimization for guided waves based structural health monitoring using fibre Bragg grating sensors
R. Soman, K. Balasubramaniam, A. Golestani, M. Karpiński, P. M. Malinowski, W. M. Ostachowicz
Smart Mater. Struct. 30, 125011 (2021).
A two-step guided waves based damage localization technique using optical fiber sensors
R. Soman, K. Balasubramaniam, A. Golestani, M. Karpiński, P. Malinowski
Sensors 20, 5804 (2020).
Aperiodic electro-optic time lens for spectral manipulation of single-photon pulses
Filip Sośnicki, Michał Mikołajczyk, Ali Golestani, Michał Karpiński
Applied Physics Letters 116, 234003 (2020) (featured article).
arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.07195
More coming up…
(click here for a full list of QPL publications)
PROJECT TEAM
Find us
We are located at the Ochota Campus of the University of Warsaw, in the interferometrically stable basement of the Geophysics Building (room 023).
We are a short tram ride from the centre of Warsaw. The Warsaw Chopin Airport is just a 20-minute bus ride away. On sunny days we escape the darkness of the lab to enjoy the adjacent Pole Mokotowskie Park.
🏠ul. Pasteura 7, 02-093 Warszawa, Poland
☎ (+48) 22 55 32 740, 46 872
✉ optics@fuw.edu.pl
Ludwika Pasteura 7, Warszawa, województwo mazowieckie, Polska