Purdue Quantum Science and Engineering Institute along with the Birck Nanotechnology Center will be hosting Dr. Raphael Pooser from Oak Ridge National Laboratories for a seminar presentation on Tuesday, July 9th.   Dr. Pooser will be presenting "21st Centruy Quantum Imaging and Sensing" that will present his work geared towards producing practical, ubiquitous quantum sensors that break through the shot noise limit to achieve state of the art sensitivities beyond the capabilities of classical devices.  He will demonstrate atomic magnetometers, atomic force microscopes, compressive imaging, quantum plasmonic imaging, and ultra-trace quantum plasmonic sensors with state-of-the-art quantum noise levels well below the shot noise limit.  In participar, he will describe a new atomic force imaging platfor that utilizing ubiquitous, off-the-shelf configuration enhanced with squeezed light in order to beat the state of the art acheived in the analogus classical sensor.

Dr. Pooser is an expert in continuous variable quantum optics. He leads the quantum sensing team within the quantum information science group. His research interests include quantum computing, neuromorphic computing, and sensing. He currently leads the Quantum Computing Testbed project at ORNL, a large multi institution collaboration. He has also developed a quantum sensing program from the ground up based on quantum networks over a number of years at ORNL. He has been working to demonstrate that continuous variable quantum optics, quantum noise reduction in particular, has important uses in the quantum information field. One of his goals is to show that the quantum control and error correction required in computing applications are directly applicable to quantum sensing efforts. He is also interested in highlighting the practicality of these systems, demonstrating their ease of use and broad applicability. His research model uses quantum sensors as a showcase for the technologies that will enable quantum computing.