Latest news

September 2010 – We started distributing secret keys using our integrated and fully computerized quantum key distribution system between the University of Calgary and SAIT. Stay tuned.

September 2010 – Congratulations to Neil Sinclair who successfully defended his MSc thesis entitled Broadband Quantum Interface using a Thulium-doped Waveguide.

September 2010 – We have demonstrated, for the first time, the possibility to transfer entanglement between two photons into entanglement between a photon and a solid-state waveguide. Read the preprint here.

July 2010 – Find out how to temporally compress quantum data using a photon-echo quantum memory approach.

June 2010 – If you want to learn more about the important border between classical and quantum memory, read our paper on the Impossibility of faithfully storing single photons with the three-pulse photon echo.

March 2010 – Read about the first implementation of a quantum memory protocol in a solid-state waveguide here.

Dec 2009 – Our review article on quantum memory was published in Nature Photonics. Read the story here.

November 2009 – Read our study of a Thulium-doped LiNbO 3 waveguide in view of quantum memory here.

October 2009 – Congratulations to Gina Howard, who has successfully defended her Masters thesis on Entanglement Swapping with Imperfect Sources and Detectors.

October 2009 - Read our investigation of State transformation in photon-echo quantum memory here.

October 2009 - Félix Bussières successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled Time-bin entanglement and quantum communication (Intrication temporelle et communication quantique). Congratulations!

Sept 2009– Read our manuscript on Optical quantum memory with generalized time-reversible atom-light interactions here.

August 2009 – Congratulations to Ahdiyeh Delfan who successfully defended her Masters thesis on Photon Echo Quantum Memory and State Transformation.

July 2009 – We have been able to generate photon pairs at widely separated wavelengths in a photonic crystal fibre. A preprint of the article can be found here.

June 2009 – We could demonstrate Einstein’s “spooky action at a distance” using universal time-bin analyzers over our 12 km fibre link between the UofC and SAIT. Read the article here.

May 2009 – Philip Chan defended his Masters thesis on Low-Density Parity-Check Codes For Quantum Key Distribution. Congratulations!

April 2009 - Quantum coin flipping moves towards a real-world application. Learn about our implementation of the first loss-tolerant quantum coin flipping protocol here.

April 2009 – Read our study of Quantum states prepared by realistic entanglement swapping here, which was published in Phys. Rev. A, and selected for the December 2009 issue of the Virtual Journal of Quantum Information.

March 2009 - Read our review article on Photon-Echo Quantum Memory, published in Laser and Photonics Reviews. An early version is available here.

February 2009 – Wolfgang Tittel and Félix Bussières are featured in the Future Tech Series part III by David Boushi, Global News, Global TV Calgary.

January 2009 – Congratulations to Joshua Slater, who has successfully defended his Masters thesis entitled Photon pair technologies for quantum communication.

January 2009 - It works! Our demonstration of quantum key distribution using quantum frames between the UofC and SAIT has been published in the focus issue on quantum cryptography in the New Journal of Physics. You can find the article here.