Industry Event
Quantum West: Photonics in Quantum
10 March 2021 • 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM PST 
Recording will be available soon
This event is available to both paid Photonics West attendees and Digital Marketplace and Industry-Only registrants
Times are all Pacific Standard Time (UTC - 8:00)
This event is available to both paid Photonics West attendees and Digital Marketplace and Industry-Only registrants.
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM PT
Day three introduction
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| Dr. Timothy Day is SVP/GM of DRS Daylight Solutions and Board Member of Cold Quanta Inc. Daylight Solutions is an advanced manufacturer of Mid IR laser-based products serving defense and commercial markets. In 1990 he cofounded New Focus, where he served through the IPO until the sale of the company to Bookham Technologies PLC in 2004. In 2004, Dr. Day cofounded Daylight Solutions where he served as CEO until its merger with Leonardo DRS in 2017. Dr. Day holds a BS and MS in Physics from San Diego State University and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.. |
9:15 AM - 9:35 AM PT
Photonics in Quantum: Lasers
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| Quantum systems will change the world (again), but not without photonics This event occurred in the past. Click here to view. When systems are engineered to relay or extend “quantum weirdness” from the nanoscopic scale of atoms to the macroscopic scale of humans amazing things can happen. In the last century humans engineered periodic atomic lattices with quantized electronic energies to create semiconductors with bandgaps, thereby enabling the transistor. Similarly, humans captured photons and optical gain media in cavities to create photonic Bose-Einstein condensates, i.e., lasers. These twentieth century quantum systems (the transistor and the laser) ushered in the computer age and the information age, which changed the world. The twenty-first century generation of quantum systems is just emerging, and the disruptive potential is equally tantalizing. Almost all these emergent quantum systems require lasers and photonics, representing both an opportunity and a challenge. In this talk I will discuss the complexity of the lasers-for-quantum space, present the technical and economic landscape, and pose possible paths forward for how lasers and photonics can usher in a new quantum age. Scott Davis has been managing technical and business groups for nearly 20 years. He is co-founder of Vescent Photonics and became CEO in January of 2020. He has a Ph.D. in chemical physics from JILA, and a physics BA from Wesleyan University. |
9:35 AM - 9:55 AM PT
Photonics in Quantum: Lasers
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| Why Photons were and remain the key for Quantum This event occurred in the past. Click here to view. It was the photon that started the world of quantum in 1905, when Einstein took seriously a concept introduced by Planck and such proposed the laser. Soon, photons seen as exchange particles for the electromagnetic force triggered QED and Feynman to postulate quantum machines. Discovery of photon’s quantum statistical properties led to the understanding and practical technical use of quantum correlations, entanglement and quantum coherence. The photon is the most accessible handle for quantum information. It is used to set and read-out qubits, quantum sensors, etc. It is the only carrier to allow large distance transport of quantum information. Tamed photons are the key enabling tool for Quantum 2.0 and today’s laser are an incarnation thereof, as basis for QT applications we can only start to anticipate. Wilhelm Kaenders is co-founder and CTO of TOPTICA Photonics AG. The field of quantum optics, in particular the strongly emerging cold atom and ion physics activities have been using laser instrumentations developed at TOPTICA for many years documented in many hundreds of scientific papers. Wilhelm holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Hannover and authored numerous scientific and technical papers and patents over the past 30 years. He is an active member of OSA (Fellow), SPIE (Fellow), and the German Physical Society (DPG). |
9:55 AM - 10:15 AM PT
PICs
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| Photonics in quantum: Photonic integrated circuits This event occurred in the past. Click here to view. Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) offer the potential to miniaturize and improve the scalability of quantum technologies. An overview of photonics in quantum sciences will be presented, with a focus on PIC design and implementation as it supports the atom and ion community. In interfacing photonic chips with atoms or ions, there is a toolbox of on-chip technologies that must be developed to solve common problems, and these tools must have versatility across wavelengths. Emerging technologies and critical needs for the future will be presented. Kaitlin R. Moore is a Research Physicist in the Advanced Technology Division at SRI International in Princeton, NJ. Dr. Moore received her PhD in Applied Physics from the University of Michigan and conducts research on chip-scale cold-atom systems, atom-based field sensing (magnetic fields and RF fields), and integrated photonics. |
10:15 AM - 10:35 AM PT
Photonics in Quantum: Single Photon Detectors
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| Detecting light, photon by photon: Recent progress and what future may hold This event occurred in the past. Click here to view. Photons, the fundamental particles of light, can carry quantum information encoded in one or more of their basic features. These include their polarization, spatial (such as orbital angular momentum), or temporal (such as time or frequency bins) structure of their wavefunction (i.e., the electromagnetic field). Since photons are always traveling at the speed of light in the medium they happen to be in, the quantum bits of information carried by them are often referred to as flying qubits to distinguish them from stationary qubits such as trapped atoms or ions. Detecting photons reliably is an important part of many quantum information tasks, may they be in sensing, communication, or computing. In this talk, I will overview the various attributes of light detection with single-photon resolution and elucidate how improving our ability to precisely and controllably measure these attributes can bring about revolutionary advances in quantum photonics applications. Prem Kumar is a Professor in the ECE Department at Northwestern. His current research focus is on quantum communications and networking. He has served as a Program Manager at DARPA, where he was awarded PM of the Year in 2015 and Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service in 2016. He co-authored the National Academies report: “Optics and Photonics: Essential Technologies for Our Nation,” which spawned the National Photonics Initiative (NPI). Currently, he serves on the NPI Steering Committee, lending his expertise to the National R&D issues. Dr. Kumar is a Fellow of the OSA, APS, IEEE, IoP (U.K.), AAAS, and SPIE. He has been a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Photonics Society. |
10:35 AM - 11:00 AM PT
Live Q&A with speakers