Spectral & Spatial Engineering of Quantum Light
30 March – 1 April 2016, Warsaw, Poland

About

The Workshop organized with the support of the PhoQuS project focuses on exploring the spectral-temporal and spatial degree of freedom of light for multidimensional photonic quantum information encoding and processing. The Workshop will be held at the Ochota Campus of the University of Warsaw, in the CENT I building which is just next to the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw new building.

Main topics:

  • Spectral-temporal quantum information encoding
  • Spatial encoding of quantum information
  • Mode conversion
  • Frequency conversion
  • Multidimensional quantum information processing
  • Multidimensional quantum key distribution
  • Generation of quantum states of light
  • Nonlinear interaction between light and matter

Organizers:
Michal Karpinski, mkarp-at-fuw-dot-edu-dot-pl
Radek Lapkiewicz, radek.lapkiewicz-at-fuw-dot-edu-dot-pl
Lidia Tanska
Marta Pudzianowska
Maciej Jachura
Maciej Galka
Filip Sosnicki

Invited speakers

  • Imad Agha (Dayton)
  • Marco Bellini (Florence)
  • Maria Chekhova (Erlangen)
  • Ivo Degiovanni (INRiM)
  • John Donohue (Waterloo)
  • Georg Harder (Paderborn)
  • Joseph Lukens (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
  • Serge Massar (Brussels)
  • Nobuyuki Matsuda (NTT Basic Research Labs)
  • Peter Mosley (Bath)
  • Yaron Silberberg (Weizmann)
  • Brian Smith (Oxford)
  • André Stefanov (Bern)
  • Rob Thew (Geneva)
  • Nicolas Treps (UPMC Paris)
  • Franco Wong (MIT)

Special guests

  • Marco Bentivegna (Rome, Sapienza)
  • Benjamin Brecht (Oxford)
  • Fedor Jelezko (Ulm)
  • Piotr Kolenderski (Torun)
  • Jonathan Lavoie (Geneva)
  • Eugene Polzik (Copenhagen)
  • Ana Predojevic (Ulm)
  • Sven Ramelow (Vienna)
  • Hugues de Riedmatten (ICFO)

Programme

Wednesday March 30, 2016

8:15 - 9:00
Registration
9:00 - 9:10
Opening remarks
9:10 - 11:10
Session 1
9:10 - 9:50
Eugene Polzik
Scalable room temperature source of single photons
9:50 - 10:30
Fedor Jelezko
Light-matter quantum interface based on single colour centres in diamond
10:30 - 11:10
Ana Predojević
Time-bin and hyperentanglement from quantum dots
11:10 - 11:40
Coffee break
11:40 - 13:00
Session 2
11:40 - 12:20
Franco Wong
Characterization of spectrally engineered phase matching for generating high-purity single photons
12:20 - 13:00
Peter Mosley
Multiplexing high-purity photons all-in-fibre: shape, sieve, and switch
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 15:30
Session 3
14:00 - 14:30
Sven Ramelow
Ramsey intereference of a single photon
14:30 - 15:00
Piotr Kolenderski
Spatial and spectral state of correlated photon pairs
15:00 - 15:30
Joseph Lukens
Optical telecom technology for quantum signal processing
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
16:00 - 17:30
Session 4
16:00 - 16:30
Benjamin Brecht
Temporal modes for quantum information science – challenges and chances
16:30 - 17:00
Imad Agha
Quantum-compatible frequency conversion and waveform shaping in photonic nanostructures
17:00 - 17:30
Jonathan Lavoie
Quantum-inspired interferometry and quantum time-to-frequency conversion with chirped-pulse upconversion

Thursday March 31, 2016

9:15 - 10:10
Warsaw Optics Seminar
9:15 - 10:00
Yaron Silberberg
On the shape of the photon
10:00 - 10:10
A short break
10:10 - 11:30
Session 5
10:10 - 10:50
Marco Bellini
Shaping ultrashort single photons
10:50 - 11:30
Serge Massar
Frequency bin entanglement
11:30 - 12:00
Coffee break
12:00 - 13:20
Session 6
12:00 - 12:40
Nicolas Treps
Quantum networks with optical frequency combs
12:40 - 13:20
Brian Smith
Quantum pulse shaping and characterization using spectral and temporal phase
13:20 - 14:20
Lunch
14:20 - 16:00
Session 7
14:20 - 15:00
André Stefanov
Exploring entangled states of higher dimensions by spectral manipulation of energy-entangled photons
15:00 - 15:40
Nobuyuki Matsuda
Spectral engineering of single photon wave packets using cross phase modulation
15:40 - 16:00
Michał Jachura
Single photon bandwidth compression by an electro-optic time lens
16:00 - 16:30
Coffee break
16:30 - 17:30
Session 8
16:30 - 17:00
John Donohue
Temporal imaging of entangled photons with an upconversion time lens
17:00 - 17:30
Georg Harder
Generating and manipulating temporal Schmidt modes of pulsed quantum light
19:30
Conference Dinner (by invitation)

Friday April 01, 2016

9:00 - 11:00
Session 9
9:00 - 9:40
Rob Thew
Heralded single-photon path entanglement: generation, measurement, characterisation
9:40 - 10:20
Maria Chekhova
SU(1,1) interferometer for shaping the frequency and angular spectra of bright squeezed vacuum
10:20 - 11:00
Ivo Degiovanni
Beating the diffraction limit with single-photon emitters
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
11:30 - 13:20
Session 10
11:30 - 12:10
Hugues de Riedmatten
Quantum frequency conversion for quantum memories
12:10 - 12:40
Marco Bentivegna
Photonic simulation of entanglement growth after a spin chain quench
12:40 - 13:00
Radek Chrapkiewicz
Holographic measurement of a quantum wavefunction
13:00 - 13:20
Michał Dąbrowski
High-capacity angularly-multiplexed holographic memory
13:20 - 14:20
Lunch

Travel

All sessions will take place in the CENT I building which is just next to the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw new building.


Travel by air:


Travel by train:

Railway stations closest to the conference venue are Warszawa Centralna and Warszawa Zachodnia. Current timetables can be found here.



Hotels near conference venue:

For further options plese see the Warsaw Official Tourist Website.