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Workshop on Quantum Light Generation, Application, and Detection
All events are in JILA X317/X325 unless otherwise noted.
Day 1: July 17, 2024 (Wednesday)
| 8:00 am - 9:00 am | Breakfast & Welcome |
Session 1: Chip-integrated generation of quantum light 1
| 9:00 am – 9:30 am | Squeezed quantum microcombs with integrated photonics, Xu Yi, University of Virginia |
| 9:30 am – 10:00 am | Quantum Frequency Conversion and N-Way Frequency Splitters, Alexander Gaeta, Columbia University |
| 10:00 am – 10:30 am | Quantum light sources on silicon nitride PICs: Bulk nonlinearity, heterogeneously integrated quantum dots, and vapor-phase atoms, Kartik Srinivasan, NIST Gaithersburg & University of Maryland College Park |
| 10:30 am – 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
Session 2: Generation of squeezed light via Four Wave Mixing
| 11:00 am – 11:30 am | Beatitudes and woes of atom-based quantum light, Irina Novikova, William and Mary |
| 11:30 am – 12:00 pm | Generation, engineering, and storage of broadband photonic quantum states, Virginia O. Lorenz, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm | Group Photo & Lunch |
Session 3: Quantum metrology with light
| 1:30 pm – 2:00 pm | Superconducting detectors for quantum light sensing, Martin J. Stevens, NIST Boulder |
| 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm | Quantum sensing: from Applications to Scientific Discovery, Alberto M. Marino, Oak Ridge National Laboratory & University of Oklahoma |
| 2:30 pm – 3:00 pm | Time reversed quantum metrology, G. S. Agarwal, Texas A&M University |
| 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm | Coffee Break |
Poster Sessions
| 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm | Poster sessions (the list of poster titles is listed at the end of this document) |
Day 2: July 18, 2024 (Thursday)
| 8:00 am - 9:00 am | Breakfast |
Session 1: Chip-integrated generation of quantum light 2
| 9:00 am – 9:30 am | Ultrafast quantum nanophotonic circuits, Alireza Marandi, Caltech |
| 9:30 am – 9:50 am | Single-mode squeezed-light generation and tomography with an integrated optical parametric oscillator, Taewon Park, Stanford University |
| 9:50 am – 10:20 am | Integrated photonics for quantum sensing and manipulating light, Scott Papp, NIST |
| 10:20 am – 10:50 am | Coffee Break |
Session 2: Generation of squeezed light in a frequency comb
| 10:50 am – 11:20 am | Generation, control, and measurement of squeezed light across >400 frequency modes, Peter McMahon, Cornell University |
| 11:20 am – 11:50 am | Photonic quadrature lattices, Eran Lustig, Stanford University |
| 11:50 am – 12:20 pm | The Fellowship of the Ring, John E. Sipe, University of Toronto |
| 12:20 pm – 1:30 pm | Lunch |
Session 3: Quantum spectroscopy of complex systems
| 1:30 pm – 2:00 pm | The 3DQ Microscope: A novel system using entangled photons to generate volumetric fluorescence and scattering images for bioenergy applications, Audrey Eshun, Lawrence Livermore National Lab |
| 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm | Photon number measurements for bio-applications, Sergey Polyakov, NIST Gaithersburg |
| 2:30 pm – 3:00 pm | Scattered biphotonic state by a two-photon absorbing medium, Samuel Corona-Aquino, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico |
| 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm | Coffee Break |
Free Discussion & Lab Tours
| 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm | Free discussions & JILA Lab Tours |
Workshop Reception
| 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm | Reception |
Day 3: July 19, 2024 (Friday)
| 8:00 am - 9:00 am | Breakfast |
Session 1: Entangled two-photon absorption and spectroscopy 1
| 9:00 am – 9:30 am | Role of time-frequency correlations in entangled-two-photon resonance energy transfer, Roberto de J. Leon-Montiel, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico |
| 9:30 am – 10:00 am | Limitations in fluorescence-detected entangled two-photon-absorption experiments: exploring the low- to high-gain squeezing regimes, Michael G. Raymer, University of Oregon |
| 10:00 am – 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
Session 2: Entangled two-photon absorption and spectroscopy 2
| 10:30 am – 10:50 am | Quantifying E2PA: ultracold rubidium in a magneto-optical trap, Alan Mclean, JILA/NIST Boulder |
| 10:50 am – 11:10 am | Fluorescence by nonclassical light: getting it right, C. Drago, University of Toronto |
| 11:10 am – 12:10 pm | Roundtable discussions |
| 12:10 pm | Departure |
Poster Presentations
Keegan Finger, JILA and University of Colorado Boulder, Pulse characterization via two-photon auto- and cross-correlation signals
Daniel I. Herman, University of Colorado Boulder, Soliton squeezing in polarization-maintaining nonlinear fiber with a 1 GHz laser comb
Zhenfei Jiang, Texas A&M University, Experimental demonstration of recovering quantum mutual information from scattering
Gautam A. Kavuri, University of Colorado Boulder, Publicly certified random numbers using entangled photons
Katherine Koch, Wake Forest University, Exciton-lattice interactions in two-dimensional Ruddlesden Popper metal halides and the role of organic cation substitution
Evan Kumar, Wake Forest University, Estimation of spectral mode distribution of SPDC photons for applications in quantum spectroscopy
Neelesh Kumar Vij, University of Maryland College Park, Inverse design of photonic crystal cavities
Miles San Soucie, University of Colorado Boulder, Inducing two-photon absorption in fluorescent molecles with intensity-difference squeezed light
Nanako Shitara, University of Colorado Boulder, Decoherence of a qubit interacting with a complex spin bath
Zach Wiethorn, University of Colorado Boulder, Symmetry breaking fluctuations split the porphyrin Q bands
Ziqi Niu, William and Mary, Bi-chromatic intensity squeezing at telecom wavelength using four-wave mixing in Rb vapor