Entry Date:
January 22, 2013

Quantum Photonics Group

Principal Investigator Dirk Englund

Project Website http://www.rle.mit.edu/qp/


The Quantum Photonics Group studies Quantum Optics, Nanophotonics, and Metrology. Current research projects include:

(*) Quantum Silicon Photonics for unconditionally secure communication and other quantum technologies
(*) Quantum-Enhanced Detectors for real-time imaging of neural activity in the brain; solid-state atomic clocks
(*) Classical and quantum information processing devices and systems
(*) Solar Photovoltaics: how to harvest nearly all sunlight with just 30 nm of active material