Quantum Bioimaging Facility across the Univeristy of Toronto

我们建议将这笔拨款用于什么：在这项NSERC RTI拨款中，该团队要求资助购买一对能够以大于80%的效率检测单个光（光子）的探测器。这些探测器是构成量子纠缠光子显微镜的主要组成部分的关键。在物理系和欧洲经委会开发后，这个世界上第一个显微镜将被放置在多伦多大学安大略癌症研究所的主要表征设施中。如果没有这里要求的探测器，这个新的研究方向就无法继续下去，因为现有的探测器的灵敏度要低4倍，噪音要高10倍。该探测器对基于超导有源层（即NbN），价格为148,200.00加元。这笔费用包括探测器、读出电子设备、冷却低温恒温器及其相关的探测器底座。这是唯一能够以超过80%的效率检测低能量纠缠光子源（波长> 1000nm）的技术，对量子成像至关重要。

What do we propose to use this grant for: In this NSERC RTI grant the team requests funding to procure a pair of detectors that are capable of detecting single units of light (photons) with efficiency larger than 80 %. These detectors are pivotal to form the chief building block in a quantum, entangled-photon-based microscope. When developed at the departments of Physics and ECE, this world-first microscope will be placed in a major characterization facility within the Ontario Cancer Institute at the University of Toronto. Without the detectors requested here, this new direction of research cannot be pursued as existing detectors have 4 times less sensitivity and 10 times higher noise. The detector pair is based on superconducting active layer (namely NbN) and costs $148,200.00 CAD. This cost includes the detectors, their read-out electronics, cooling cryogenic cryostat and its associated detector mounts. This is the only technology by which low energy entangled photon sources (wavelengths > 1000 nm) can be detected with over 80 % efficiency and is pivotal for quantum imaging.