Topic: Interaction of Quantum Light with Matter

Speaker: Dr. Elisabeth Giacobino, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, France

Time: 10:45 p.m., October 22, 2014

Venue: Conference Hall on the 5th Floor, Building of State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices, SCUT North Campus

Sponsor: School of Materials Science and Engineering

Abstract:

Interactions between light and matter can be engineered to control the behaviour of single photons and ensembles of photons. Such investigations also allow a better understanding of the boarder between the quantum and classical worlds. Notably, the quantum properties of photons are more and more used to achieve fully secure communications, and offer remarkable perspectives in this direction.

We will present recent results obtained in Laboratoire Kastler Brossel (UPMC, ENS, CNRS) in Paris using material systems such as laser-cooled atomic ensembles or semi-conductors to generate quantum states of light and also to store and retrieve them without destroying them.