Monday, June 27th
08:00 Registration open
09:00 – 09:30 Opening, Presentation of the Vendors
ID QUANTIQUE SA, Carouge/Geneva, Switzerland,
MICRO PHOTON DEVICES S.r.l., Bozen, Italy,
PicoQuant GmbH, Berlin, Germany,
qutools GmbH, Munich, Germany,
09:30 – 10:30 Applications
09:30 – 10:00 Figer (invited)
Single Photon Imaging Array Detectors for Astrophysics and Biophotonics
10:00 – 10:15 Krainak
Photon number detectors for NASA applications
10:15 – 10:30 Krichel
Time-of-Flight Depth Profiling Applications Based on Single-Photon Detection
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30 Optical Communication and Quantum Information Processing
11:00 – 11:30 Farr (invited)
Single Photon Detectors for Capacity Achieving Optical Communication
11:30 – 11:45 Gerrits
Characterization of high-purity, pulsed squeezed light at telecom wavelengths from pp-KTP for quantum information applications
11:45 – 12:00 Guha
Superadditive Optical Communications: New Applications of Integrated Coherent Photonics and Single Photon Detectors
12:00 – 12:15 Walther
Challenges in Photonic Quantum Information Processing
12:15 – 12:30 Ma
Single photon frequency up-conversion and its applications in quantum information systems
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 – 15:00 Superconducting Detectors I
13:30 – 14:00 Nam (invited)
Optical and near-infrared photon detection with superconducting devices
14:00 – 14:15 Gerrits
Extending Single-Photon Optimized Superconducting Transition Edge Sensors Beyond the Single-Photon Counting Regime
14:15 – 14:30 Bagliani
Hundred parallel connected TES array for single photon detection
14:30 – 14:45 Akhlaghi
Quantum Tomography and Modelling of a Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detector
14:45 – 15:00 Tanner
Spatially Dependent Timing in a Superconducting Single Photon Detector
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 17:00 Single Photon Avalanche Detectors I
15:30 – 16:00 Smith (invited)
Quantum-enhanced metrology in the real world: Losses, decoherence, and noise make life on the quantum edge challenging
16:00 – 16:15 Itzler
What Does SPAD Afterpulsing Actually Tell Us About Defects in InP?
16:15 – 16:30 Bahgat Shehata
InGaAs/InP single-photon detection module with clean temporal response
16:30 – 16:45 Patel
Gigacounts-per-Second Single Photon Detection Based on a Single-Pixel Avalanche Photodiode
16:45 – 17:00 Acerbi
Dark counts, afterpulsing and timing jitter of latest InGaAs/InP Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes
Tuesday, June 28th
08:00 Registration open
09:00 – 10:30 Quantum Information Processing, Quantum Key Distribution, Theory
09:00 – 09:30 Kwiat (invited)
Optimized (Non)Entanglement: Designer Sources for Next-Generation Quantum Information
09:30 – 09:45 Almeida
Exponentially faster measurements of quantum dynamics via compressive sensing
09:45 – 10:00 Collins
An Analysis of Single-Photon Detectors in a GigaHertz Clock Rate Robust Quantum Key Distribution System
10:00 – 10:15 Lenhart
Latest Results on the Standardization of Quantum Key Distribution
10:15 – 10:30 Meyer-Scott
Demonstration of Quantum Key Distribution System Suitable for High Loss Satellite Uplink
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30 Superconducting Detectors II
11:00 – 11:15 Leoni
Waveguide superconducting single photon detectors
11:15 – 11:30 Baek
Single-Photon Detectors Based on a Superconducting a-WxSi1-x Nanowire
11:30 – 11:45 Correa
Single infrared-emitting nanocrystal fluorescence dynamics using superconducting nanowire detectors
11:45 – 12:00 Grein
A Photon-Counting Optical Receiver Based on Superconducting Nanowire Detector Arrays for the Lunar Laser Communications Demonstration
12:00 – 12:15 Natarajan
High Efficiency Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors For Optical Quantum Information Science Applications
12:15 – 12:30 Zwiller
Detecting single photons with superconducting nanowires
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 – 15:00 FPGA and Multichannel
13:30 – 13:45 Crotti
High performance Time-to-Amplitude Converter array
13:45 – 14:00 Pooser
FPGA-based gating and logic for multichannel single photon counting
14:00 – 14:15 Cuccato
Ultra-Compact Single-Channel Acquisition System For TCSPC Measurements
14:15 – 14:30 Chen
Experimental Demonstration of the Conditional Nulling Receiver
14:30 – 14:45 Williams
64-Channel Binary Pulse Processing Instrument
14:45 – 15:00 Dell'Anna
Prototype of THz photon spectroscopic camera based on mesoscopic devices
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 17:00 Single Photon Avalanche Detectors II
15:30 – 16:00 Gulinatti (invited)
New Silicon SPAD technology for enhanced red-sensitivity, high-resolution timing and system integration
16:00 – 16:15 Rochas
Asynchronous & 100MHz-gated photon detection at telecom wavelengths
16:15 – 16:30 Restelli
Time-domain measurements of afterpulsing in a periodically-gated InGaAs SPAD
16:30 – 16:45 Bülter
A new red sensitive single photon counting module for timing applications
16:45 – 17:00 Williams
Single Photon Counting Linear-Mode Avalanche Photodiodes
18:00 – 20:00 Poster session (poster size: 1.18 m x 1.45 m)
Lunghi
Free Running Single Photon Detection based on a negative feedback InGaAs APD
Heath
Nano-optical studies of single and parallel nanowire superconducting single photon detectors
Blazej
Picosecond stability photon counting detector package for space missions
Hepp
Color Centers in Diamond for Bright, Narrow-Band Single Photon Emission
Villegier
SWIFTS-SNSPD micro-spectrometer integration with a SiN waveguide
Slattery
Towards narrow linewidth non-degenerate correlated photon pairs
Racu
Impurity centres in GaN and AlN for novel single photon sources
Lamas-Linares
Multimode fiber coupling to transition edge sensors in the visible range
Gu
Photon-number-resolving detection based on synchronized frequency upconversion at 1.04 μm
Senekane
Review of Single Photon Detectors and Their Applicability to Quantum Key Distribution
Witek
Engineering quantum dots for single photon to single spin interfaces
Wu
1550nm laser ranging with a quasi-continuous mode InGaAs APD single-photon detector
Lemmens
Control of Spontaneous Emission and Dynamics of Quantum Dots, Organic Dyes and Molecular Magnets in Confinement
Zhang
Multi-Channel 30 MHz Gating InGaAs/InP Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes for Practical Decoy-State Quantum Key Distribution
Field Programmable Gate Array Technology – enabling real-time data handling in photon-counting applications
Heindel
Quantum key distribution using electrically triggered quantum dot - micropillar single photon sources
Wednesday, June 29th
08:00 Registration open
09:00 – 10:30 Entanglement and Photon Manipulation
09:00 – 09:30 Zbinden (invited)
What are Single Photons good for?
09:30 – 09:45 Chen
Entangled Photons from a Si-on-Insulator Microring
09:45 – 10:00 Grice
Photon Pair Source Optimized for Multi-Photon Entanglement
10:00 – 10:15 Beveratos
Purcell effect for high fidelity entangled photon pairs
10:15 – 10:30 Evans
Polarization Manipulating Quantum Lightwave Circuits
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:15 Sources I
11:00 – 11:30 Wrachtrup (invited)
Interfacing diamond defects
11:30 – 11:45 Stevens
Third-Order Antibunching of a Single-Photon Source
11:45 – 12:00 Steudle
Fiber-Integrated Single-Photon Generation and Detection
12:00 – 12:15 Wahl
High Speed Quantum Random Number Generator with Provably Bounded Bias
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 – 15:00 Detection efficiency
13:30 – 14:00 Andrew Shields / Oliver Thomas (invited)
Resolving the Photon Number with fast-gated Silicon Avalanche Photodiode
14:00 – 14:15 Guerreiro
Quantum Cloning Radiometer: towards higher accuracy
14:15 – 14:30 Müller
Towards Traceable Calibration of Single Photon Detectors Using Synchrotron Radiation
14:30 – 14:45 Taralli
Quantum characterization of photon number resolving Transition-Edge Sensor
14:45 – 15:00 Brida
Multimode Spatial Correlation in PDC: Sub-Shot-Noise Quantum Imaging and CCD Calibration
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 17:15 Special session: Towards realizing photon-based standards
15:30 – 16:00 Migdall (invited)
Single-Photon Tools, Techniques, and Prospects for Metrology
16:00 – 16:30 Rastello (invited)
Metrology Towards Quantum-Based Photon Standards
16:30 – 16:45 Porrovecchio
A transfer standard for the low power / few photon regime – the trap detector plus switched integrator amplifier
16:45 – 17:00 Schmunk
Relative detection efficiency calibration of single photon avalanche photo detectors using non-classical light
17:00 – 17:15 Degiovanni
Experimental realization of a shuttered heralded single-photon source
19:00 – 22:00 Conference Dinner - Barbecue
Thursday, June 30th
08:00 Registration open
09:00 – 10:30 Sources II
09:00 – 09:30 Goetzinger (invited)
Planar dielectric antennas for collecting photons from a single emitter with near unity efficiency
09:30 – 09:45 Goldschmidt
Toward single photon generation and storage in a rare-earth ion-doped crystal
09:45 – 10:00 Lukishova
Room-Temperature Single-Photon Sources with Definite Circular and Linear Polarizations
10:00 – 10:30 Bleuse (invited)
Quantum Dots in Tapered Photonic Wires: towards Unit-Efficiency Single-Photon Sources
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:15 Sources III
11:00 – 11:30 Rarity (invited)
Progress in single photon sources, heralded versus true single photons
11:30 – 11:45 Michler
High-frequency electrically driven quantum dot single-photon source
11:45 – 12:00 Reimer
Single photon emitter in a tapered nanowire waveguide
12:00 – 12:15 Zwiller
Slow single photons: merging quantum dots and atomic vapors
12:15 – 12:30 Closing session
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch