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Monday March 31 | |
7:00-8:00 | coffee/pastry |
8:00-8:30 |
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Photon Counting Motivation | |
8:30-8:50 | Quantum Technology: The Second Quantum
Revolution (8.21 MB) Jon Dowling, JPL |
8:50-9:10 | The Need for High-Efficiency Photon-Number Resolving
Detectors in Linear Optics Quantum Computing (2.43 MB) T. B. Pittman, APL |
9:10-9:30 | Optical Entanglement and Single-Photon
Detection (1.75 MB) Alexander Sergienko, BU |
9:30-9:50 | Quantum Information Processing with
Light and the Requirement for Detectors (811 KB) Bill Munro, HP Labs UK |
Break | |
10:15-10:35 | Multi-Photon Quantum Cryptography (335 KB) George Khoury, UCSB |
10:35-10:55 | Single-Photon Detection Needs for Quantum Key
Distribution (1.78 MB) Jane "Beth" Nordholt and Richard Hughes, LANL |
10:55-11:15 | Single-Photon Counting at Telecom Wavelength and
Quantum Cryptography (3.62 MB) Alexei Trifonov, MagiQ |
11:15-11:35 | Single Photon Detection with Energy Resolution using
Superconducting Tunnel Junctions Daniel E. Prober, Yale Univ. |
11:35-11:55 | Dye-Doped Cholesteric-Liquid-Crystal
Single Photon Source (1.59 MB) S.G. Lukishova, A.W. Schmid, A.J. McNamara, R.W. Boyd, C.R. Stroud, Univ. of Rochester |
11:55-12:15 | The Physics of Low Noise Avalanche Photodiodes (4.20 MB) John P. R. David and Graham J. Rees, University of Sheffield |
Lunch | |
Photon Counting Metrology | |
1:50-2:10 | Photon Counting Metrology: the Good,
the Bad, and the Ugly (3.19 MB) A. Migdall, NIST |
2:10-2:30 | Entangled State - What Do We Measure? (273 KB) Yanhua Shih, UMBC |
2:30-2:50 | Absolute Calibration of Photo-Detectors
and Applications of this Technique at IENGF (6.53 MB) Marco Genovese, IENGF Italy |
Break | |
3:15-3:35 | Uncertainty Analysis of Radiometric Calibrations using
Correlated Photons (779 KB) J. Y. Cheung and C. J. Chunnilall NPL UK |
Photon Counting - Commercial and Near-Commercial Detectors | |
3:35-3:55 | Single-Photon Detection with Microchannel Plate
based Photon Detectors (447 KB) John Martin and Paul Hink, Burle Industries, Inc. |
3:55-5:00 | Discussion (25 KB) - List of Ideal Detector Qualities, List of Photon Counting Applications |
Adjourn | |
Tuesday April 1 | |
7:00-8:00 | coffee/pastry |
8:00-8:30 | Announcements |
Photon Counting - Commercial and Near Commercial Detectors (cont.) | |
8:30-8:50 | Single-Photon Detector Module for Telecom Wavelengths (2.04 MB) Gregoire Ribordy, ID Quantique Switzerland |
8:50-9:10 | Photon Counting Developments at Hamamatsu
- Restricted (4.79 MB) Earl Hergert, Hamamatsu |
9:10-9:30 | Silicon Photodetectors with High-Gain Internal Amplification and Ultra-Low
Excess Noise Alex Krutov and Edward Godik, AmplificationTechnologies |
Photon Counting by Novel/Advanced Detectors | |
9:30-9:50 | Evolution and Prospect of Single-Photon Avalanche
Diodes and Quenching Circuits (2.98 MB) S. Cova, M. Ghioni, A. Lotito, F. Zappa, Politecnico di Milano Italy |
Break | |
10:15-10:35 | Recent Achievements in Solid State Photon
Detectors Development at the Czech Technical University in Prague (6.99 MB) Ivan Prochazka, Czech Tech. Univ. in Prague |
10:35-10:55 | Dark Count Model for Single Photon Avalanche
Photodiodes (1.35 MB) Y.-H. Lo, Yimin Kang, Huaxin Lu (UCSD), A. Pauchard, M. Bitter, Z. Pan, S. Hummel (Nova Crystals) |
10:55-11:15 | Room Temperature IR InGaAs/InP APD Photon
Counters for Quantum Optics Experiments (2.58 MB) Paul Voss and Prem Kumar, Northwestern University |
11:15-11:35 | Evaluation of HgCdTe APDs for Single Photon Counting (1.45 MB) James Gates and George Williams Voxtel Inc. Portland, OR |
11:35-11:55 | Single-Photon Detection at 1.55 mm
with InGaAs Avalanche Photodiodes and via Frequency Upconversion (7.04 MB) Marius A. Albota and Franco N. C. Wong, MIT |
11:55-12:15 | High Bandwidth, Improved Quantum Efficiency Detector
Development for Multi-GHz Class QKD Throughput (8.34 MB) Deborah Jackson and Jeff Stern, JPL |
Lunch | |
1:50-2:10 | New Technologies for High Efficiency
Detectors (556 KB) Paul Kwiat, U of Ill UC |
2:10-2:30 | GHz-Rate Superconducting Photon Counting
Detector (7.28 MB) A. Verevkin, R. Sobolweski, U. of Rochester, and G. N. Gol’tsman, Moscow State Pedagogical University |
2:30-2:50 | Photon Number Resolving Detectors for Quantum
Communications (8.52 MB) SaeWoo Nam, NIST Boulder |
Break | |
3:15-3:35 | Cryogenic Thermoelectric (QVD)-Detectors: New
Emerging Technique for Single-Photon Fast Counting and Non-Dispersive Energy
Characterization (1.9 MB) Armen M. Gulian, Kent S. Wood, Gilbert G. Fritz, and Deborah Van Vechten, NRL |
3:35-3:55 | Photon Counting with a Loop Detector (1.49 MB) D. Achilles, K. Banaszek, C. Sliwa, C. Radzewicz and I. A. Walmsley |
3:55-5:00 | Discussion (25 KB) - Possible Solutions, Potential Road Blocks, Future, Summary |
Adjourn | |
Posters |
Current NIST Detector Calibration
Capabilities (1.39 MB) Thomas Larason, NIST Gaithersburg |
Photon Number Resolving in Avalanche Photodiode
Photon Counter (2.01 MB) Josef Blazej, Karel Hamal, Bruno Sopko, Ivan Prochazka, Czech Technical University in Prague | |
Progress in Using Cold Avalanche Photodiodes as
Single Photon Detectors (1.5 MB) John Swain, Stephen Reucroft, Yuri Moussienko, Northeastern University | |
Development of Single Photon Counting Avalanche
Photodiodes at University of Texas-Austin (694 KB) Gauri Karve, Shuling Wang, Feng Ma, Xiaoguang Zheng, Ning Li, Rubin Shidu, Joe Campbell, and Archie Holmes, Jr., The University of Texas at Austin |