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Day 1: Tuesday, August 6, 2024

Introduction and Engineering
John Lehman

8:00

Welcome, Introduction/Overview

All

8:50

Introduction to the Single Photon Short Course

John Lehman

9:10

Quantum Advantage

Tasshi Dennis

9:30

Single Photonics Dictionary

Josh Bienfang/Alan Migdall
10:00

Break

 
     

10:20

Quantum Systems and Networks

Tasshi Dennis

10:40

Quantum Systems and Networks

Tasshi Dennis

11:00

Statistics and Uncertainty

Ivo Degiovanni

11:20

Statistics and Uncertainty

Ivo Degiovanni

11:40

Cryogenic Systems

Charlie Danaher

12:00

Cyrogenic Systems

Charlie Danaher

12:20—13:40

Lunch

 
14:00–17:00
  • Lab Station 1: Qubitekk Labs
  • Lab Station 2 & 3: Tips and Tricks for alignment with Krister
  • Lab Station 4: Fiber Splicing with Matt and Sonia
  

Day 2: Wednesday, August 7, 2024

Detectors
Sergey Polyakov

8:00

Introduction/Overview

Sergey Polyakov

8:20

Overview of PMTs

Josh Bienfang

8:40

SPAD Fundamentals

Josh Bienfang

9:00

SPAD Performance

Josh Bienfang

9:20

SNSPD: Basics, Readout, and Imaging

Adam McCaughan

9:40

SNSPD: Basics, Readout, and Imaging

Adam McCaughan

10:00

Break

 

10:20

TES: Basics, Readout, and Photon-Number Resolution

Adriana Lita

10:40

TES: Basics, Readout, and Photon-Number Resolution

Adriana Lita

11:00

Detector Arrays

Josh Bienfang/Adam McCaughan

11:20

Practical Single Photon Detecton and Autocorrelation Measurement Characterization of an SPD

Ivan Burenkov

11:40

Practical Single Photon Detecton and Autocorrelation Measurement Characterization of an SPD

Ivan Burenkov

12:00

How to Read a Spec Sheet (Choosing a Detector for Your Application

Sonia Buckley

12:20

Lunch

 
14:00
  • Lab Station 1: Qubitekk Labs
  • Lab Station 2: Hamamatsu Camera with Klea and Brad
  • Lab Station 3: Thorlabs Quantum Eraser with Sterling
  • Lab Station 4: SNSPDs with Sonia and Aaron
  
     

Day 3: Thursday, August 8, 2024

Sources
Marty Stevens

8:00

Introduction/Overview

Marty Stevens

8:20

What is a Single Photon and How Do We Characterize It?

Marty Stevens

8:40

Indistinguishability, Hong Ou Mandel Interferometry

Sergey Polyakov

9:00

Indistinguishability, Hong Ou Mandel Interferometry

Sergey Polyakov

9:20

Atoms and Ions

Marty Stevens

9:40

Quantum Dots

Kevin Silverman

10:00

Break

 

10:20

Color Centers

Shuo Sun

10:40

Pair Sources (SPDC, FWM)

Alan Migdall

11:00

Pair Sources (SPDC, FWM)

Alan Migdall

11:20

Designing a High-Performance Entangled Source

Krister Shalm

11:40

Designing a High-Performance Entangled Source

Krister Shalm

12:00

DLCZ & Entanglement Swapping

Sergey Polyakov

12:20

Lunch

 
14:00
  • Lab Station 1: Qubitekk Labs
  • Lab Station 2: Down-conversion Observation with Josh
  • Lab Station 3: g2 experiment with Sergey
  • Lab Station 4: Thorlabs Bomb-Tester Kit with Sterling
  • Lab Station 5: Office hours deep dive
  
18:30

Social Hour/Dinner

18:30-19:00: Cocktails and Hors Devours

20:30: Last Call

21:00: End

 Keynote Speakers: Aaron Miller (Quantum Opus)

Day 4: Friday, August 9, 2024

Measurements and Calibrations
Sonia Buckley

8:00

Introduction/Overview

Sonia Buckley

8:20

SI Traceability

Angela Gamouras

8:40

Methods

Angela Gamouras

9:00

Detector Characterization (spectral, spatial, linearity, afterpulse, background)

Sonia Buckley

9:20

Detector Characterization (spectral, spatial, linearity, afterpulse, background) 

Sonia Buckley

9:40

How to Read a Calibration

Michelle Stephens

10:00

Break

 

10:20

Timing Jitter

Martin Stevens

10:40

Count Rate

Dileep Reddy

11:00

Photon Number

Dileep Reddy/Adriana Lita

11:20

Measurement Tomography

Michael Mazurek

11:40

Measurement Tomography

Michael Mazurek

12:00

Web Widgets Preview Widgets

Ivan Burenkov

12:20

Lunch

 
14:00
  • Lab Station 1: Qubitekk Labs
  • Lab Station 2 & 3: Tips and Tricks for Fiber Coupling with Krister
  • Lab Station 4: Allan Variance with Alan