Associate Professor
Centre for Quantum Technologies - Quantum Optics section (group site)
Room S15-02-04
Department of Physics, National University of Singapore
2 Science Drive 3
117542 Singapore
Tel. +65-6516-1250 (office), -2818, -2610 (labs)
email: phyck at nus.edu.sg
Single Photon Technologies, Atom-Light interaction
PC 4243 - Atomic and Molecular Physics 2
PC 3193 - Experimental Physics 2 (3rd year lab)
PC 5214 - Principles of Experimental Physics
- Ph.D. in Experimental Phyiscs in the field of Atom Optics/Interferometry (1997, Universität Konstanz, Germany)
- Postdoc at IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA on an ion trap experiment (1997-1999)
- Scientific Staff at Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany (1999-2003)
- Faculty Member at the Physics Department of the National University of Singapore since 2003
- Principal Investigator at the Centre fro Quantum Technologies in NUS since 2008
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Atom-Photon interface |
M.K. Tey, Z. Chen, S.A. Aljunid, B. Chng, F. Huber,
G. Maslennikov and Ch. Kurtsiefer:
Strong interaction between
light and a single trapped atom without the need for a cavity
Nature Physics 4, 924 (2008) |
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Four Photon States | M. Eibl, S.
Gaertner, M. Mourennane, Ch. Kurtsiefer, M. Zukowski, H.
Weinfurter: Four photon entanglement
from down-conversion Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 200403 (2003) |
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Quantum Cryptography | Ch. Kurtsiefer, P.
Zarda, Matthäus Halder; H. Weinfurter, P.M. Gorman, P.R.
Tapster,
and J.G. Rarity: A steptowards
global key distribution Nature 419, 450 (2002) |
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Single Photon
Source |
Ch. Kurtsiefer, P.
Zarda, S. Mayer, and H.
Weinfurter: A stable solid-state
source of single photons Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 290 (2000) |
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Entangled
Photon Pairs |
Ch.
Kurtsiefer, M. Oberparleiter, and H. Weinfurter: High
efficiency entangled photon pair collection in type II parametric
fluorescence Phys. Rev. A 64, 010102(R) (2001) |
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Atomic Matter
waves |
Ch. Kurtsiefer, T.
Pfau, and J.Mlynek: Experimental
determination of
the motional Wigner function of a Helium atom Nature 386, 150 (1997) |
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see list of
publications
& conferences |
Experimental Quantum Physics group of H. Weinfurter at LMU Munich/MPQ