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2023, Suparna Seshadri receives the SPIE Optics and Photonics Education scholarship
Seshadri awarded SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship 2023 || SPIE.ORGSuparna Seshadri has been awarded a 2023 Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. The scholarship is awarded for demonstrating potential to make long-term contributions to the optics and photonics community.
2023, AJ Metcalf selected for the Arthur S. Flemming Award and the early career Stellar Award
2022 Arthur S. Flemming Awards Recognize Outstanding Federal Employees || gwu.edu2023 Stellar Winner Press Release || Rotary National Award for Space
Alumnus AJ Metcalf (research scientist at Air Force Research Laboratory – US Space Force) has been selected for both the Arthur S. Flemming Award and an early career Stellar Award.
The Arthur S. Flemming Award honors exceptional early career public servants from a variety of federal agencies. Dr. Metcalf received the award in recognition of his application of quantum and communications technologies to develop a new generation of global positioning system and communication capabilities.
The Stellar Award is granted by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement (RNASA) Foundation to honor the dedication of space workers. Dr. Metcalf received an early career Stellar Award for his outstanding contributions in developing new spacecraft Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) and communication technologies and capabilities.
2023, Optica Names Andrew Weiner the 2023 Charles Hard Townes Medal Recipient
Optica Names Andrew Weiner the 2023 Charles Hard Townes Medal Recipient || optica.orgOptica Names 17 Recipients for 2023 Awards and Medals || optica.org
Prof. Andrew Weiner is the 2023 recipient of the Charles Hard Townes Medal. Weiner is recognized for ground-breaking work bringing optical frequency combs to the quantum world and developing innovative applications spanning several fields, including coherent control, generation and line-by-line manipulation of frequency combs, and ultrabroadband radio-frequency photonics. The Charles Hard Townes Medal recognizes an individual or group for outstanding experimental or theoretical work, discovery or invention in the field of quantum electronics.
2023, VR Supradeepa awarded the 2022 Gallieno Denardo Award by ICO/ICTP
Celebrating Optics Excellence, ICO/ICTP Prize Ceremony || ictp.it2021 - 2023 ICO/ICTP Gallieno Denardo Award Ceremony || youtube.com
Alumus VR Supradeepa from the Center for Nano Science and Engineering, IISc Bangalore, India, has been awarded the 2022 ICO/ICTP (International Commission for Optics/International Centre for Theoretical Physics) Gallieno Denardo Award for his significant contributions to the field of high power fiber lasers and integrated non linear optics, including cascaded Raman fiber lasers, high power supercontinuum laser sources, and on-chip frequency combs. The award ceremony followed by the awardee talks was live-streamed on youtube on February 14, 2023.
2023, Purdue ECE researchers develop technique for more precise ToF measurements
High precision time-of-flight measurements realized on entangled photons || Purdue ECEUltrafast lab members and collaborators have developed a technique that will allow single photon detectors of any resolution to take accurate time-of-flight measurements (ToF) of entangled photons. These results were published in Optica.
2022, A Wavelength-Multiplexing Toolkit for Quantum Networks
A Wavelength-Multiplexing Toolkit for Quantum Networks || optica-opn.orgUltrafast lab members and collaborators published an Optics and Photonics News (OPN) article on using high-dimensional entangled-photons for quantum networking. Read it in the December 2022 issue.
2022, Lab Alum recieves AFRL Early Career Award
2022 AFRL Fellows and Early Career Award Winners || afresearchlab.comLab alum Dr. A.J. Metcalf has been awarded an Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Early Career Award (ECA). The AFRL Science and Engineering ECA recognizes junior scientists and engineers for significant research or engineering achievements during the onset of their career. These individuals, who also receive a $300,000 multiyear research grant, have demonstrated exceptional in-house research contributions. Dr. Metcalf is space mission area lead; Space Vehicles Directorate at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico.
2022, New measurements quantifying qudits provide glimpse of quantum future
New qudit quantifying measure || ORNLNew qudit quantifying measure || phys.org
A multi-institue team from Purdue's Ultrafast Optics lab, Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL), and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) has developed an effective method for measuring high-dimensional qudits encoded in quantum frequency combs. The team fully characterized an entangled pair of eight-level qudits, which formed a 64-dimensional quantum space—quadrupling the previous record for discrete frequency modes. These results were published in Nature Communications.
2022, Scott Kenning recieves NSF Graduate Fellowship
Purdue ECE Students selected for NSF Graduate FellowshipsUndergraduate lab member Scott Kenning receives National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP). He will pursue his doctoral studies at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).
2021, Purdue Ultrafast Optics and Fiber Communciations Lab collaborates on quantum networking in a real world environment
Press release: Researchers reach quantum networking milestonePublication: Reconfigurable Quantum Local Area Network Over Deployed Fiber
Ultrafast Optics Lab members from Purdue University — Prof. Andrew Weiner and alumni Hsuan-Hao Lu and Navin Lingaraju — alongside and collaborators from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and Stanford University have developed and demonstrated a novel, fully functional quantum local area network, or QLAN, to enable real-time adjustments to information shared with geographically isolated systems at ORNL using entangled photons passing through optical fiber.
2021, Alumnus AJ Metcalf receives Laser Instrumentation Award
IEEE Photonics Society | Laser Instrumentation AwardHPF Laser Comb Team wins IEEE Laser Instrumentation Award
For the development, deployment, and operation of an electro-optic laser frequency comb that enables the most precise near-infrared astronomical Doppler spectroscopy, alumnus AJ Metcalf (Air Force Research Laboratory) and collaborators received the 2021 IEEE Photonics Society Laser Instrumentation Award. Congrats AJ!
2021, Karthik V. Myilswamy, Quantum Information Science and Engineering Network (QISE-NET) Triplet Awardee
Purdue ECE grad student selected for QISE-NET programKarthik V. Myilswamy, Prof. Weiner, and our alumns Joe Lukens have been selected as Quantum Information Science and Engineering Network (QISE-NET) Triplet Awardees. The "triplets" — a combination of a university principal investigator, an industrial or national laboratory mentor, and a graduate student — come from a variety of disciplines relevant to advancing the development of quantum technologies such as materials science, chemistry, device engineering, physics, computer science and industrial research. Congratulations, Karthik and team!
2021, A quantum internet is closer to reality, thanks to this switch
Press Release: Purdue University highlights work published in OpticaA recent work led by Prof. Weiner and Navin Lingaraju has showcased wavelength routing in quantum networks. This work was published in Optica. Congratulations team!
2020, Navin Lingaraju, Quantum Information Science and Engineering Network (QISE-NET) Triplet Awardee
Purdue researchers named Quantum Information Science and Engineering Network Triplet AwardeesNavin Lingaraju, Prof. Weiner, and our alumns Joe Lukens have been selected as Quantum Information Science and Engineering Network (QISE-NET) Triplet Awardees. The "triplets" — a combination of a university principal investigator, an industrial or national laboratory mentor, and a graduate student — come from a variety of disciplines relevant to advancing the development of quantum technologies such as materials science, chemistry, device engineering, physics, computer science and industrial research. Congratulations, Navin and team!
2019, Quantum Information Processing in the Frequency Domain | Optics in 2019
Optics and Photonics NewsQuantum experiments explore power of light for communications, computing
Our team along with collaborators from Oak Ridge National Lab summarized results from several of our recent papers in a special issue of the Optical Society's Optics & Photonics News, which showcased some of the most significant results from optics-related research in 2019.
2019, Nikolai Knight | Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Highlights
SURF 2019 in PurdueNikolai Knight is currently an undergraduate student in physics from the University of Arkansas, Pine Bluff. His SURF project involved working in Ultrafast Optics and Optical Fiber Communications Laboratory with faculty mentor Andrew Weiner, the Scifres Family Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Nikolai also worked with graduate student mentor Suparna Seshadri and postdoctoral researcher Poolad Imany. Good luck for your future, Nikolai!
2019, Researchers build transistor-like gate for quantum information processing
Press Release: Purdue University highlights work published in Nature Partner JournalA recent work led by our postdoctoral researcher, Poolad Imany, has showcased high-dimensional photonic quantum information processing on one of the largest entangled states to date. This work was published in npj Quantum Information. Congratulations Poolad and team!
2019, Prof. Andrew Weiner presents at Congressional Briefing
Press release: Purdue ECEECE Prof. Andrew Weiner recently participated in STIx on the Hill 2019, a Congressional briefing on Science, Technology, and Information Exchange, hosted by the Coalition for National Security Research (CNSR) and the Department of Defense.
2018, Researchers demonstrate new building blocks in quantum computing
Press release: Oak Ridge National Laboratory for work published in OpticaThe collaboration between our Purdue team, including Hsuan-Hao "Peach" Lu and Prof. Weiner, and our alumnus Joseph Lukens (with fellow research scientists from ORNL Quantum Information Science Group), has successfully demonstrated "independent operations simultaneously on two qubits encoded on photons of different frequencies." This work was published in Optica. Congratulations Peach and team!
2018, The Eaton Award in Design Excellence - Awarded to alumnus AJ Metcalf
The Eaton Award in Design Excellence (Information from Purdue Univeristy)Designing the First Deployable Infrared Astrocomb and Enabling the Search for Nearby Habitable Worlds (PDF of project design)
Our alumnus AJ Metcalf has been awarded the Eaton Award for his work on developing and deploying an "astrocomb." This work was developed during his time at NIST. AJ is now working at Air Force Research Lab in New Mexico. Congratulations AJ!
2018, National Science Foundation's Quantum Leap Initiative - Grant awarded
The Future is Now -Purdue Quantum Center projects picked for NSF initiative (Press Release from Purdue Univeristy)Professor Weiner received an NSF grant as part of an all-Purdue team including Minghao Qi and Sabre Kais on a project proposal titled "High Dimensional Frequency Bin Entanglement - Photonic Integration and Algorithms."
2018, VR Supradeepa thanks Professor Weiner for Mentorship
OSA Celebrating All Members (CAM)At CLEO 2018, VR Supradeepa (previous group member) had the opportunity to express his gratitude for the mentorship provided by Professor Weiner as part of the OSA celebrating all members (CAM) program.
2018, Incubic/Milton Chang Travel Grant
Travel grant for the Frontiers in Optics 2018 OSA conferencePoolad Imany and Hsuan-Hao "Peach" Lu both received the Incubic/Milton Chang travel grant for their trip to the Frontiers in Optics OSA conference. Congratulations Poolad and Peach!