Event Details
Towards Developing Single-Photon Sources
Presenter: Jamal M. Ehtaiba
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Date: Wed, February 26, 2020
Time: 14:00:00 - 15:00:00
Place: EOW 430
ABSTRACT
Single-photon sources are essential building blocks in future quantum computing and quantum communications systems. These new systems depend on the nonclassical nature of light, which has antibunching characteristics and sub-Poissonian photon statistics. Many such sources have been studied previously, for example, atoms/ions, quantum dots, and color centers. The challenge of working with these single-photon sources lies within isolating individual tiny particles. The experimental procedure for isolating single nanocrystals doped with erbium ions that are capable of emitting photons at a wavelength of 1550 nm will be explained. Then, results of photon-counting experiments for light detected in an optical trapping experiment of upconverting nanoparticles (UCNPs) using a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector will be discussed. There will also be an opportunity to display the nanoantenna enhanced optical fiber tweezer that was made for this purpose.