MRI: Development of single photon generation & characterization unit

MRI：单光子生成的发展

• 批准号: 0420888
• 负责人: Carlos Stroud
• 金额: $ 25.12万
• 依托单位: University of Rochester
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-09-15 至 2007-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0420888&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MRI; Development; single; photon; generation

0420888StroudThe objective of this research is to develop instrumentation supporting and enhancing research efforts in three University of Rochester departments in the field of quantum optics, quantum information, nanotechnology, and microscopy. The instrumentation will allow the production, detection, and characterization of individual photons interacting with matter. It will consist of three modules: a single-photon-on-demand source, high-speed single-photon detectors with 10% efficiency at optical communications wavelengths, and a high-speed photon statistics analyzer that can operate with 8 ps time resolution. These state-of-the-art facilities will support research in the Institute of Optics, the departments of Physics and Astronomy, and Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the Center for Quantum Information. The PIs will collaborate in this project with BBN Technologies, which is building the world's first absolutely secure quantum key distribution network. The intellectual merit of this proposal is that it provides essential instrumentation supporting research in some of the most promising new fields of technology: quantum information processing, quantum communications, and nanoscience. All of these involve the controlled interaction of the smallest units of light with the smallest units of matter: single photons interacting with single molecules. The facilities developed in this project will allow work at the University of Rochester to progress in all of these fields. The broader impact toward which this research is aimed is the development of quantum computers exponentially more powerful than any classical computer, the development of communication systems secure from any known method of eavesdropping, and miniaturization of medical and diagnostic instrumentation to the nanometer scale.

0420888这项研究的目的是在罗切斯特大学三个量子光学，量子信息，纳米技术和显微镜领域的罗切斯特大学的研究工作中开发和增强研究工作。 该仪器将允许单个光子与物质相互作用的单个光子的生产，检测和表征。 它将由三个模块组成：一个点播源，在光学通信波长下具有10％效率的高速单光子检测器，以及可以以8 ps时间分辨率运行的高速光子统计分析仪。 这些最先进的设施将支持光学研究所，物理和天文学部以及电气和计算机工程以及量子信息中心的研究。 PI将在该项目中与BBN Technologies合作，BBN Technologies正在建立世界上第一个绝对安全的量子密钥分销网络。该提案的智力优点在于，它提供了基本的仪器，支持一些最有希望的新技术领域：量子信息处理，量子通信和纳米科学。 所有这些都涉及最小单元与最小单位的受控相互作用：与单分子相互作用的单个光子。 该项目中开发的设施将允许罗切斯特大学的所有这些领域的工作。 这项研究针对的更广泛的影响是量子计算机的开发比任何经典计算机都更强大，通信系统的开发免于任何已知的窃听方法，以及将医疗和诊断仪器的微型化为纳米量表。