It’s been a busy year: our latest work was published in Nature Communications, we submitted a milestone result on coupling light to quantum memories optomechanically for the first time, Hamid defended his PhD, and we moved into a luxurious new lab:
Postdoc Opportunities in Quantum Photonic Devices We are recruiting candidates for PDF and Research Associate level positions for projects applying photonic devices to problems in quantum transduction and quantum sensing. Candidates must be experts in one of these areas: nanofabrication of photonic devices nanophotonic device design and testing quantum optics theory and experiment quantum emitter…
We are recruiting motivated and creative graduate students (M.Sc. and Ph.D.) to join the lab in 2022 to work on projects in quantum nanophotonics and nano-optomechanics. If you are interested, please get in touch (email pbarclay@ucalgary.ca your CV, transcript, and a brief description of research interests), and apply for admission to the University of Calgary graduate program.…
Undergraduate Student Opportunities Our lab regularly employs undergraduates for both paid research assistantships (typically during the summer, often with help from NSERC USRA funding) as well as senior thesis project (PHYS 598). Undergraduates interested in projects related to experimental, computational, or theoretical aspects of nanophotonics and quantum optics are encouraged to email Prof. Paul Barclay.…
Impurities in diamond are one of the most promising qubits for quantum information processing. They have been used already in proof-of-principle quantum optics experiments, and if they can be incorporated into nanophotonic devices it will be possible to build practical quantum technologies, e.g. for quantum computing and networking. Our lab is creating the photonic technology…
We have recently demontrated nanocavity optomechanical devices based on silicon photonics which can detect sources of torque with unprecedented sensitivity. These structures are currently being used to probe nanomagnetic phenomena and demomstrate magnetic field sensors with unique combination of spatial resolution, sensitivity and dynamic range. Several projects are building on this success: creating sensors for detecting optical angular momentum…
2D materials, the most famous of which is graphene, are promising for sensing and quantum technology. Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is a layered 2D material that is exciting thanks to its ability to host quantum emitters / single photon sources. By combining hBN with silicon photonic devices, we recently demonstrated the very first cavity optomechanical system with…
Paul Barclay Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary Member of the Institute for Quantum Science and Technology Project co-leader at the National Research Council Nanotechnology Research Centre Postdoc: Hewlett-Packards Labs, Information and Quantum Systems Lab, Palo Alto, 2008 – 2010 Ph. D.: California Institute of Technology, Applied Physics, 2007 Advisor: Oskar Painter Thesis: “Fiber-coupled nanophotonic devices for…