Registration now open: CU Boulder/NIST Q|School

The CU Boulder/NIST <Q|School: Introduction to Single Photonics and Quantum Radiometry Short Course: Sources, Detectors and Measurements

The course site is now live! This course is sponsored by QED-C and is a direct result of the QED-C single photon workshop held in September 2021 and the subsequent report released in July 2022. Register Today! 

Who should attend

• Technologists looking for an introduction to a new field and networking
• Experienced engineers or technicians in a related field looking for an introduction
• Researchers seeking a better understanding of and expressing measurement results

Topics (full list) : 

• Detectors
  • PMTs, SPADs, SNSPDs, TESs (if you don’t know the acronyms, register for the course!), how do we define detection efficiency? What is detector tomography?
• Sources
  • Down conversion, quantum dots, nitrogen vacancies, What’s the difference between a single photon source and simply ‘faint light’?
• Measurements and use cases
  • Detection efficiency, photon number, dark counts, jitter, dark counts. What is ‘spooky action at a distance’? What does a calibration report tell me?
• Engineering
  • Cryogenics, optics, optical fibers and optimization, statistics and uncertainty

Highlighted instructors (full list):

• Sae Woo Nam, NIST, USA
• Alan Migdall, JQI/NIST USA
• Krister Shalm, CU/NIST USA
• Ivo Pietro Degiovanni, INRIM, Italy
• Angela Gamouras, NRC, Canada
• Christopher Chunnilall, NPL, UK