Single-Photon Short Course

Presented by: CUbit, NIST, SPIE, Q-SEnSE and QED-C

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Introduction to Single Photonics and Quantum Radiometry Short Course:
Sources, Detectors and Measurements

February 21–24, 2023
Boulder, Colorado

In cooperation with researchers and metrologists from around the world, the University of Colorado Boulder will present a short course consisting of lectures and hands-on lab interaction. Demonstrations and labs will be provided by industrial partners active in the field.

Sponsored by: NIST, Quantum Opus, Qubitekk, S15 Instruments, Colorado Photonics Industry Association and ThorLabs

Please contact CUbit if you are interested in becoming a sponsor.

Who should attend

  • Technologists looking for an introduction to a new field and networking
  • Experienced engineers or technicians in a related field looking for an introduction
  • Researchers seeking a better understanding of and expressing measurement results

Topics

  • Detectors
    • PMTs, SPADs, SNSPDs, TESs (if you don’t know the acronyms, come to the course!), how do we define detection efficiency? What is detector tomography?
  • Sources
    • Down conversion, quantum dots, nitrogen vacancies, What’s the difference between a single photon source and simply ‘faint light’?
  • Measurements and use cases
    • Detection efficiency, photon number, dark counts, jitter, dark counts. What is ‘spooky action at a distance’? What does a calibration report tell me?
  • Engineering
    • Cryogenics, optics, optical fibers and optimization, statistics and uncertainty

Invited Instructors (partial list):

  • Sae Woo Nam, NIST, USA
  • Alan Migdall, JQI/NIST USA
  • Krister Shalm, CU/NIST USA
  • Ivo Pietro Degiovanni, INRIM, Italy
  • Angela Gamouras, NRC, Canada
  • Christopher Chunnilall, NPL, UK

Preregistration

Please fill out the webform below to be added to a pre-registration list.

Questions?

Please contact   cubit@colorado.edu.

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