Webinar: Quantum Imaging with a Photon Number Resolving Camera

We wish to demonstrate the application of a qCMOS detector, capable of performing quantum enhanced imaging by photon counting. Presenting this work will be beneficial in allowing investigators consider the potential applications of the qCMOS technology in the quantum imaging domain.

 

Until now, quantum enhanced imaging schemes were realized through correlations between single photons. Due to the limiting readout noise of CCD and CMOS technologies, our ability to count photons was reduced to distinguishing between zero photons and one or more. Acquisition speeds were therefore limited by both the readout rate of the detector array, and the necessity of operating in an extremely sparse regime. 

 

However, the recent development of a qCMOS camera that is capable of photon number resolving due to its low readout noise, has enabled quantum enhanced imaging at higher illumination regimes. Operating in such a way will allow an increased data acquisition rate, accelerating the development of quantum enhanced imaging schemes for their implementation into end-user technologies.

Event Name Webinar: Quantum Imaging with a Photon Number Resolving Camera
Schedule June 22, 2022 17:00 - June 22, 2022 17:30 (CEST)


Meet the Speakers

Miles Padgett is a Royal Society Research Professor and also holds the Kelvin Chair of Natural Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. He leads an optics research team covering a wide spectrum from blue-sky research to applied commercial development, funded by a combination of government, charity and industry. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and various subject specific societies. He has won national and international prizes including, in 2019, the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society and in 2021 the Quantum Electronics and Optics Prize of the European Physical Society. Since 2019 he has been named by Web of Science as a globally highly-cited researcher.

Thomas Gregory has five years of experience working in the Optics Research Group at the University of Glasgow. His research interests are in the field of quantum enhanced imaging and metrology. He has focused on improving image contrast, image resolution, and background noise rejection through the implementation of quantum imaging schemes that utilize the spatial correlations between entangled photon pairs. 

Osian Wolley has two years of experience working in the Optics Research Group at the University of Glasgow. His research interests are in the field of quantum enhanced imaging and microscopy. His work includes quantum imaging schemes to increase image contrast and homodyne detection techniques for imaging and microscopy.