MRI: Acquisition of an Ultraviolet Laser for Quantum Imaging

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案(公法111-5)资助的。我们将在高露洁大学购买一台用于新颖量子成像实验的紫外线激光器。这笔赠款将支持和加强高露洁一个非常活跃的光学物理研究项目的基础设施，在该项目中，本科生是主要的研究人员，也是其已发表研究成果的共同作者。激光器将被用来产生光子对形式的非经典光状态。有了这种独特的光形式，我们将研究光学物理中的一个新概念：光的螺旋空间模式，其中光的波前具有开塞钻形状。近年来，从量子力学的角度研究这些模式引起了人们的极大兴趣，因为它们在编码信息和成像方面具有潜在的用途。购买这些设备的广泛影响是增强高露洁大学本科生的研究经验，并为他们未来的科学生涯做好准备。此外，利用这种激光器进行的研究成果将对量子信息领域做出根本性贡献，这是当今物理学研究的前沿课题之一。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).We will acquire an ultraviolet laser for novel quantum imaging experiments at Colgate University. The grant will support and enhance the infrastructure of a very vigorous research program in optical physics at Colgate where undergraduates are the prime researchers and coauthors of its published research output. The Laser will be used to produce non-classical states of light in the form of photon pairs. With this unique light form we will study a novel concept in optical physics: the helical spatial modes of light, where the wave-front of the light has corkscrew shapes. In recent years there has been much interest in the study of these modes from a quantum mechanical perspective because of their potential use in encoding information and imaging.The broad impacts of the acquisition of the equipment are to enhance the research experience of undergraduates at Colgate University, and prepare them for future careers in science. In addition, the outcome of the research to be done with this laser will make fundamental contributions to the field of quantum information, a topic that is at one of the forefronts of physics research today.