Quantum communications and single photon sources
Motivation
To provide signal -sources and -processing for communication systems of the future
- On demand single photon sources for entangled qubit encoding
- Photon pair generation by higher order modes (HOM)
- Entangled optical angular momentum states and quantum key distribution (QKD) protocols
- Theory and noise of advanced QKD
- Silicon photonics for quantum communications
Methods and tasks
- Explore nonlinear effects for on- demand single photon sources.
- Explore enhanced efficiency in quantum key distribution systems.
- Optimize nonlinear effects while minimize spontaneous emission.
- Waveguide design versus linear and nonlinear intermodal coupling.
- Optimize coupling to/from higher order mode waveguides.