In cooperation with researchers and metrologists from around the world, the University of Colorado Boulder 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.

Topics

• Detectors
  • PMTs, SPADs, SNSPDs, TESs (if you don’t know the acronyms, come to the course!), how do we define detection efficiency? What is detector tomography?
• Sources
  • Down conversion, quantum dots, nitrogen vacancies, What’s the difference between a single photon source and simply ‘faint light’?
• Measurements and use cases
  • Detection efficiency, photon number, dark counts, jitter, dark counts. What is ‘spooky action at a distance’? What does a calibration report tell me?
• Engineering
  • Cryogenics, optics, optical fibers and optimization, statistics and uncertainty