News

• 14th of December 2006: First photon antibunching curve obtained with a pulsed laser. Single photon source demonstrated.
  
• 28th of September 2006: Single quantum dots emission lines observed on CCD camera.
  
• September 2006: Micro-photoluminescence set-up for observing nanostructures is in place and running.
  
• June 2006: Ti-Sapphire Laser installed
  
• January 2006: QKD based on entangled photons is working in the lab.
  Currently testing and designing for outside free-space operation.
  

Team
Faculty
Gregor Weihs

Post Doctoral Fellow
Christophe Couteau

Graduate Students
Rolf Horn
Chris Erven
Devin Smith

Research Assistants
Nikolina Ilic

Facilities

• Coherent Mira Dual with long-ps option pumped by Coherent Verdi V-18
  
• Princeton Instruments 750mm monochromator with back-illuminated deep-depletion CCD
  
• Perkin-Elmer quad photon counters
  
• Princeton Lightwave NIR photon counters
  
• Becker&Hickl SPC-132 photon timing cards
  
• MPD fast timing SPADs
  
• Bluesky 50mW 405nm laser
  
• Janis Research ST-500 continuous flow cryostat w/ x-y attocube positioners
  
• Agilent 1Ghz, 2GS/s digital oscilloscope
  
• Optical Autocorrelator
  
• 20'x5' optical table, 8'x4; optical table
  

Research

Free-Space Quantum Key Distribution Experiment
Single Time-Bin Entangled Photon Pairs from Quantum Dots
Entangled Photon Pairs from Photonic Crystal Waveguides

Former Group Members
Paul McGrath
Jordan Thompson
Matt Peloso
Benjamin Schmidt
Stephanie Simmon