Quantum Information Processing with Structured Light

Photons prepared in spatially structured modes have emerged as a powerful resource for applications in quantum technologies. They can be harnessed to access higher-dimensional Hilbert space, thus opening pathways that go beyond traditional approaches. Our invited speaker, Professor Robert Fickler, is an expert in the generation and manipulation of spatially structured photons.

Subject Matter Level: Intermediate - Assumes basic knowledge of the topic

What You Will Learn:
• The concept of structured photons - physical description and process of generation
• Utilization of structured photons in quantum information processing and quantum communication
• Current progress in the field

Who Should Attend:
• Undergraduate students
• Graduate students
• Postdocs and early-career researchers

About the Presenter: Robert Fickler from Tampere University, Finland

Professor Robert Fickler is the leader of the research group "Experimental Quantum Optics" at Tampere University, Finland. In which the research focuses on structuring single photons to realize high-dimensional quantum states, quantum interference, and entanglement. He obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Vienna and the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI), Vienna, Austria. His Ph.D. thesis, “Entanglement of Complex Structures of Photons,” supervised by Anton Zeilinger, received the Springer Thesis Award 2015 due to the outstanding research. Robert Fickler has been a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI), Vienna, Austria, and in the University of Ottawa in the research groups of Prof. Robert Boyd and Prof. Ebrahim Karimi. He has been acknowledged with several awards, including the "Young Scientist Award 2015", "Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship 2016", and "Outstanding Postdoctoral Research Fellow 2016-17".