Responsible Mikkel Ejrnaes
The light-matter interaction science is the core of the activities of this research area, which focuses on how the application of innovative materials and devices can advance quantum sciences and technologies.
The understanding of a controlled light/matter interaction will lead to a wave of new functionalities and technologies based on quantum components that on one hand uses solid state devices to control the quantum nature of light and on the other hand uses light to control the quantum nature of solid state devices.
Our research activity is multidisciplinary in what combines condensed matter physics and materials science with microwave quantum optics and laser physics. In this sense, it helps pushing the boundaries of what can be envisaged in emerging fields and technologies that are based on new materials and microwave quantum optics as well as on devices with novel functionalities.
A synthetic list of research domains and keywords related to activity 3.2 follows:
- Quantum Detection: Fabrication of ultrathin SC microstrips for single photon detection and characterization. Study of dark count mechanisms and photon detection. Superconducting single-photon and THz detectors for the most demanding applications that encompass quantum information and communication, atmospheric remote sensing and LIDAR, metrology, ultra-sensitive imaging and spectroscopy of faint emission sources in medicine and biology.
- Microwave photonics: Quantum Microwave Photonics with Superconducting Circuits and next generation of superconducting TWPA; Travelling Wave Parametric Amplifiers for quantum noise limited amplification of weak microwave signals, readout of solid-state qubits and quantum optics experiments in the microwave regime; High Q-resonators for qubits read-out and sensing. Superconducting parametric devices for quantum-noise-limited amplification of weak microwave signals.
