Lab Facilities

Computational Modelling Lab

Dedicated high-performance computer workstations with multiple displays for each student and postdocs
A dedicated separate area for data analysis, HD visualization, and collaborations
Display areas will include dual-interactive HD MONITORS and porcelain white boards
Best-in-class Espresso machine!

Probe stations to test large-scale photonic integrated circuits
High-speed test and measurement equipment for optical and electrical characterization
Cryogenic photonics platform for large-scale photonic integrated circuits
Packaging and co-integration facilities for photonic-electronic hybrid integration

Reconfigurable experimental stations adaptable to exploring a wide variety of research questions.
State of the art ultrafast lasers (pulses shorter than 100 fs) and tunable from deep blue to infrared, and a repetition rates up to 76 MHz.
Detectors sensitive enough to measure a single photons.
Closed-loop cryogenic vacuum systems capable of taking samples down to temperatures approaching absolute zero.
Stable coupled optical tables floating on air for students to build prototypes and experimental apparatus of their own design.

Closed-cycle cryostats (4 K) with superconducting magnets (9T and 5/3/3T), integrated with a custom free space optical setup including a confocal microscope
High-resolution (~kHz) continuous-wave lasers with an extensive mode-hop-free tuning range (up to 130 nm, centred about 930 nm and 1550 nm), integrated with wavelength and power stabilization for low-noise quantum optics measurements
Fast, low-noise, high-efficiency superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (VIS and NIR) paired with high-resolution time taggers designed specifically for time-correlated single- and few-photon counting
Cutting-edge Tektronix arbitrary waveform generator with a sample rate of up to 50 GS/s, paired with industry-standard Keithley current-voltage sources and measure units, and high-speed electro-optic modulators for high bandwidth switching and shaping of optical signals