Ongoing and Recent Academic Collaborations
- Serge Charlebois, Jean-François Pratte, Université de Sherbrooke
Single photon detector arrays - Mihaela Vlasea, Vlad Paserin, U Waterloo
Study on use of additive manufacturing techniques for quantum devices. - Paul Kwiatt University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Nano satellite projects - Michael Reimer, U Waterloo
Uses of quantum dots for quantum communication/sensing applications - Martin Rochette, McGill
Study of photon conversion in micro-wire, (PRA 2014, APL 2015). - Kevin Resch, U Waterloo
Very tight collaboration on the generation of photon triplets in cascaded SPDC, locality-loop-hole free tests of quantum entanglement (Nature 2010, Nature Phys. 2012, Nature Comm. 2013, Nature Phot. 2014, Nature Phot. 2014). - Sae-Woo Nam and Krister Shalm, NIST Boulder
For creating entangled photon triplets as well as towards loop-hole free Bell-tests (Nature Phot. 2014). - Alberto Tosi, Milano
Experimental study of advanced single-photon detectors and arrays (Sci. Rep. 2014, J. Appl. Phys. 2014). - Vadim Makarov, U Waterloo
Study on the security of free space quantum links; detectors for the satellite payload (several publications submitted). - Robert Zee, UToronto
Satellite systems. - Christoph Simon, U Calgary
Study of three-photon entanglement (Nature Phys 2013), quantum repeaters (submitted). - Amr Helmy, U Toronto
Study of entangled source based on AlGaAs samples (Sci. Rep. 2013). - Adan Cabello, Seville
Experiments on qutrit protocols (PRA 2012) and Bell-tests. - Urbasi Sinha, RRI
Multi-dimensional systems, satellite quantum sources. - Anton Zeilinger and Rupert Ursin, Vienna
Collaboration on the European quantum satellite project, ultra-long-distance quantum teleportation (Nature Phys. 2012). - Alipasha Vaziri, Vienna
Study of entanglement enhanced two-photon absorption. - Gregor Weihs, Innsbruck
ending short-wavelength entangled photons over telecom fibres (APL 2010), and ultra-stable interferometers for photon triplets.
Industrial Collaborations
- Honeywell Canada, Cambridge/Ottawa
- COMDEV Inc., Cambridge
- National Institute of Optics (INO), Quebec City
- Excelitas, Montreal
- Neptec, Ottawa
- C2C, Hamilton
- Xiphos, Montreal
- DotFast Systems, Kufstein
Partnerships and Funding
Natural Sciences and Engineering
Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI)
Industry Canada (Industry Canada)
Canadian Space Agency (CSA)
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)
COM DEV International Ltd. (COM DEV)
Office of Naval Research (ONR)
Ontario Research Fund (ORF), Early Researcher Award (ERA) and FedDev Ontario