銆圦|School Single Photonics Short听Course: Sources, Detectors and Measurements
銆圦|School Single Photonics Short听Course: Sources, Detectors and Measurements鈥
August 11鈥14, 2026
麻豆影院
In cooperation with researchers and metrologists from around the world, the 麻豆影院听will present a short course consisting of lectures and hands-on lab interaction. Demonstrations and labs will be provided by industrial partners active in the field.
Presented by: CU 麻豆影院 and NIST
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Who should attend?
听听 Technologists looking for an introduction to a new field and networking
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听听 鈥Researchers seeking a better understanding of and expressing measurement results听
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鈥 Eva Yao
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Topics to include:
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Detectors
PMTs, SPADs, SNSPDs, TESs (if you don鈥檛 know the acronyms, come to the course!) How do we define detection efficiency? What is detector tomography?
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Sources
Down conversion, quantum dots, nitrogen vacancies. What鈥檚 the difference between a single photon source and simply 鈥榝aint light鈥?
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Measurements and use cases
Detection efficiency, photon number, dark counts, jitter, dark counts.听What is 鈥榮pooky action at a distance鈥? What does a calibration report tell me?
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Engineering
Cryogenics, optics, optical fibers and optimization, statistics and uncertainty
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Questions?
Please contact听听听cubit@colorado.edu.