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€2.5 million for Quantum Photonics
23 November 2009
John Rarity + 3D nano-cavity friend
Professor John Rarity in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering is to be awarded a five-year European Research Council Advanced Grant for a project entitled ‘Quantum optics in wavelength scale structures’.
These grants are made under a new, Europe-wide scheme that supports exceptional, professorial-level research leaders in undertaking groundbreaking, high-impact research projects. Professor Rarity is one of only 10 principal investigators in Europe to be awarded an Advanced Grant in the Physical Sciences domain. The award of €2.5 million will enhance the University’s activity in the area of Nanoscience and Quantum Information, one of its four strategic research initiatives.
Coupling light into a wavelength scale nano-cavity
The aim of the project is to trap light in cavities that are as small as one cubic wavelength. Within these cavities one can expect to drastically enhance the interactions between the light and matter. This will lead to a new family of devices with unprecedented performance in the storage of data, the switching of light and the generation of light of tailored properties.
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