Paul Barclay
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Paul Barclay
University of Calgary, Canada
Diamond Nanophotonics: From Quantum Sensing to Nonlinear Optics & Nanoscale Cavity Optomechanics: Coupling Photons, Phonons and Spins
Quantum Optomechanics: Coupling Photons, Phonons and Spins
Optomechanical devices couple light to mechanical resonators. This long-studied phenomenon is playing a critical role in quantum technologies, including the development quantum transducers, quantum sensors, and interfaces between qubits. This talk will review fundamental results, progress, and challenges in this rapidly moving field.
Diamond Nanophotonics
Diamond is well known to possess exceptional physical properties. In recent years, it is the imperfections in diamond—impurities and defects in its otherwise perfect crystal lattice—that has led to its emergence as a key material for quantum photonics. In this talk I will review these properties and highlight progress in creating quantum technology from diamond nanophotonic devices.
About the Speaker
Paul Barclay completed his Ph.D. in Applied Physics at the California Institute of Technology in 2007, where he performed early experiments in nonlinear optics with high-Q silicon photonic crystal cavities. In 2008 he joined Hewlett Packard Labs, in Palo Alto, California, where he helped establish the emerging field of diamond quantum nanophotonics. His undergraduate degree is in Engineering Physics from UBC, where he received the APEGBC Gold Medal.
Since starting his lab at the Institute for Quantum Science and Technology at the University of Calgary 2011, he has performed pioneering research in the field of diamond photonics, spin-optomechanics, and in nanophotonic quantum sensors.
His group’s impact was recognized in 2019 by the Herzberg Medal for early career researchers from the Canadian Association of Physicists, and in 2017 by an NSERC Discovery Accelerator award. He is a former AITF Scholar and has led two major CFI Innovation Fund projects as well as NSERC and Alberta Innovated Strategic Research Projects. His group members, who also work at the NRC Nanotechnology Research Centre in Edmonton, have won numerous awards, including a Governor General's Gold Medal.
