2019

  • Unconventional Photon Blockade in Photonic Crystal Nanocavities

    STSM participant: Marco Clementi, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia, Italy

    Host: Institute of Semiconductor and Solid State Physics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Linz, Austria

  • A better way to simulate photonic nanostructures for quantum applications

    STSM participant: Parry Chen, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel

    Host: University of Mons, Mons, Belgium

  • Diagnostic of photoluminescence properties in metallo-octaethylporphyrins with the effect of the incorporation of different controlled size of monodispersed ZnO nanoparticles

    STSM participant: Bouchta Sahraoui, Institute of Sciences and Molecular Technologies of Angers, Angers, France

    Host: Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland

  • Double-barrier resonant tunnelling in nano-optics and quantum mechanics: correct wavelength-scale analysis by the method of single expression

    STSM participant: Hovik Baghdasaryan, National Polytechnic University Of Armenia, before State Engineering University of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia

    Host: National Institute of Telecommunications, Warsaw, Poland

  • Interaction of Entangled Photons with matter: from quantum plasmonics to quantum holography

    STSM participant: Branko Kolaric, Institute of Physics, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

    Host: UNAMUR, Namur, Belgium

  • An analytical approach to irreversibility in optomechanical systems

    STSM participant: Dimitrios Moustos, University Of Patras, Patras, Greece

    Host: IQOQI Vienna, Vienna, Austria

  • NV Center based Magnetometry for Nanomedicine Applications

    STSM participant: Filipe Camarneiro, International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Braga, Portugal

    Host: Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

  • Diagnostic of nonlinear optical properties at the molecular scale in highly conjugated luminescent thiophene derivatives

    STSM participant: Anna Popczyk, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland

    Host: University of Angers, Angers, France

  • New Photo Switchable Nanocomposite Materials For Optoelectronics Application

    STSM participant: Oksana Krupka, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine

    Host: University of Angers, Angers, France

  • Nonlinear magnetooptical diffraction by nanoscale magnetic arrays

    STSM participant: Igor Lyubchanskii, Donetsk Institute for Physics & Engineering named after O.O.Galkin of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

    Host: Le Mans Université, Le Mans, France

  • Different strategies for positioning single photon emitters in Hyperbolic Metamaterials

    STSM participant: Josep Canet-Ferrer, ICFO-The institute of Photonic Science, Castelldefels, Spain

    Host: Tampere University, Tampere, Finland

2018

  • Symmetries and topological phenomena in plasmonic nanoarrays

    STSM participant: Marek Nečada, Aalto University, Aalto, Finland

    Host: Ortwin Hess, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

  • Nonlinear optical properties of thin oxide films

    STSM participant: Anna Zawadzka, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland

    Host: Bouchta Sahraoui, University of Angers, Angers, France

  • Non-standard effects in the strong coupling regime.

    STSM participant: Thomas Durt, Institut Fresnel, Marseille, France

    Host: Bjorn Maes, Universite de Mons, Mons, Belgium

  • Study of ordered arrays of Mie resonators

    STSM participant: Simona Checcucci, LENS, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy

    Host: Marco Abbarchi, CNRS, Aix-Marseille Universitè, Marseille, France

  • Quantum optical desciption of second harmonic generation from subwavelength structures : A transformation optics approach

    STSM participant: Nireekshan Reddy Kothakapu, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheva, Israel

    Host: Antonio I. Fernández-Domínguez, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

  • Transition radiation in nanophotonic structured materials: detection of single electrons

    STSM participant: Lieve Lambrechts, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

    Host: Philippe Tassin, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden

  • A Photonic Integrated Chip for Reference-Frame-Independent Measurement-Device- Independent Quantum Key Distribiution

    STSM participant: Costantino Agnesi, Università degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy

    Host: Leif Katsuo  Oxenløwe, Tecnical University of Denmark – Department of Photonics Engineering, Lyngby, Denmark

  • Realization of frequency doubled in-well pumped VECSEL based on quantum wells for Rydberg spectroscopy in rubidium and potassium

    STSM participant: Marija Curcic, Institute of physics, Zemun, Serbia

    Host: Robert Loew, 5th Institute of Physics, Stuttgart, Germany

  • Biopolymer DNA and Nanocomposite for Nonlinear Application

    STSM participant: Oksana Krupka, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine

    Host: Bouchta Sahroui, University of Angers, Angers, France

  • Manipulation of the coupling between the emitters and the near field of the semiconductor based nanostructures

    STSM participant: Emilija Petronijevic, Universita di Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy

    Host: Mircea Guina, Optoelectronics Research Centre, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland

  • Entanglement Swapping

    STSM participant: Klaus Jöns, KTH Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden

    Host: Rinaldo Trotta, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

  • Non equilibrium stochastic thermodynamics of entanglement generation

    STSM participant: Francesco Tacchino, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia, Italy

    Host: Alexia Auffèves, Institut Néel, CNRS Grenoble, Grenoble, France

  • Manipulation of quantum states of light using supersymmetric coupled waveguides

    STSM participant: Gerard Queraltó Isach, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain

    Host: Alexander Szameit, Universität Rostock, Rostock, Germany

  • Half-pillars for full cavities

    STSM participant: Dr Petros Androvitsaneas, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

    Host: Martin Lopez-Garcia, International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Braga, Portugal

  • Quantum Optomechanical Temperature Sensors Based In CVD Diamond

    STSM participant: Dr Pablo Aitor Postigo, Instituto de Microelectrónica de Madrid, Tres Cantos, Spain

    Host: Alexander Kromka, Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic

  • Spectroscopy with quantum light enabled by plasmonics

    STSM participant: Branko Kolaric, Umons, Mons, Belgium

    Host: Andre Stefanov, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

  • Study of linear optical response of metallo-supramolecular architectures thin films based on triple helicates containing ZnO nanoparticles

    STSM participant: Karolina Waszkowska, Universite d’Angers, Angers, France

    Host: Anna Zawadzka, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland

  • A Silicon-Vacancy Based Quantum Memory in Diamond

    STSM participant: Johannes Goerlitz, Universitaet des Saarlandes, Saarbruecken, Germany

    Host: Dylan Saunders, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom

  • Subradiant Sub-recoil Cooling of Atoms in Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics: Storing atoms in a dark and cool place

    STSM participant: Kanupriya Sinha, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of complex systems, Dresden, Germany

    Host: Helmut Ritsch, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

  • Hawking radiation from nanolasers with stopped-light singularities

    STSM participant: Sophie Viaene, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

    Host: Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

  • Wave propagation through non-uniform nano-layers and non-rectangular potential nano-barriers: correct solution of boundary problems by the method of single expression (MSE)

    STSM participant: Tamara Knyazyan, National Polytechnic University of Armenia (former State Engineering University of Armenia), Yerevan, Armenia

    Host: National Institute of Telecommunications, Warsaw, Poland

  • The role of quantum coherence in relativistic and quantum nano-technologies

    STSM participant: David Edward Bruschi,  University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Host: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

  • Polymer-coated optical nanofibers for single molecule quantum optic application

    STSM participant: Hardy Schauffert, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria

    Host: LENS, Florence, Italy

  • Advanced Quantum Key Distribution system on a field trial link

    STSM participant: Davide Bacco, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

    Host: LENS, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy

  • Optomechanical actuator fabrication at the ORC of Southampton

    STSM participant: Martino De Carlo, Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy

    Host: University of Southampton, Optoelectronics Research Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom

  • Comparison of structural, morphological, linear and nonlinear optical properties of methacrylic based nanocomposites

    STSM participant: Vitalii Smokal,  Kyiv National University, Kyiv, Ukraine

    Host: University of Angers, Angers, France

  • New organic materials for nanophotonics: coupling to surface exciton polaritons in J-aggregate thin films

    STSM participant: Samuel Holder, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

    Host: International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Braga, Portugal

  • Correlation between molecular structures and enhanced NLO properties induced by transition Metal in some selected organotransition metal complexes at molecular level.

    STSM participant: Anna Migalska-Zalas, Jan Dlugosz University, Czestochowa, Poland

    Host: Angers University, Angers, France

  • Loss compensation by gain materials in a hybrid plasmonic system in the observation of extraordinary optical transmission

    STSM participant: Bilge Can Yildiz Karakul, Department of Applied Physics, Ankara, Turkey

    Host: Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland

2017

  • An open source software for quantum scanning probe microscopes

    STSM participant: Alexander Stark, Technical University of Denmark, DTU, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark

    Host: Mathieu Munsch, Qnami, Basel, Switzerland

  • Mechano-optical quantum simulator for the single-photon in the strong-coupling regime

    STSM participant: David Edward Bruschi, University of York, York, UK

    Host: André Xuereb, University of Malta, Msida, Malta

  • Unusual optical transitions in semiconductor quantum dots excited by OAM light

    STSM participant: Jamie Fitzgerald, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

    Host: Doris Reiter, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany

  • Switching waves and polaritons in bistable organic thin films

    STSM participant: Boris Fainberg, Holon Institute of Technology, Holon, Israel

    Host: Nikolay Rosanov, ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia

  • Simultaneous enhancement of the excitation and the emission of a quantum emitter using a simple cylindrical nano-antenna

    STSM participant: Artur Movsesyan, University of Technology of Troyes, France

    Host: Monika Fleischer, University of Tübingen, Germany

  • Exploring the dark exciton spin qubit in deterministic quantum dot microlenses

    STSM participant: Dr Tobias Heindel, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Host: David Gershoni, Physics Department and Solid State Institute, Haifa, Israel

  • Characterization of diamond nanoparticles with optically active Si-V colour centres

    STSM participant: Štepán Potocký, Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i., Praha, Czech Republic

    Host: Elke Neu, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

  • Phase-resolved nonlinear magneto-plasmonics

    STSM participant: Ngoc Minh Tran, Institute of Molecules and Materials of Le Mans (IMMM), Le Mans, France

    Host: Alfred Leitenstorfer, Centrum fuer Angewandte Photonik , 78457 Konstanz, Germany

  • Plasmonic nanostructures geometry for coherent spectroscopy in alkali metal vapor cells

    STSM participant: Alessandro Belardini, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy

    Host: Ventsislav Valev, University of Bath, Department of Physics, Bath, UK

  • Entangled two-photon absorption in nano-particles

    STSM participant: Ariel Ashkenazy, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

    Host: Andre Stefanov, Institute of Applied Physics, Bern University, Bern, Switzerland

  • Towards Single Photon Storage in Atomic Vapors

    STSM participant: Bernd Docters, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

    Host: Ben Buchler, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia

  • A silicon-vacancy based quantum memory in diamond - Stimulated Signal Absorption and Retrieval in an Ensemble of Silicon-Vacancy Centres in Diamond

    STSM participant: Christian Weinzetl, University of Oxford, UK

    Host: Christoph Becher, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany

  • The energy cost of creating and maintaining entanglement

    STSM participant: Francesco Tacchino, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy

    Host: Alexia Auffèves, Institut Néel, CNRS Grenoble, Grenoble, France

  • Application of non-traditional method of single expression (MSE) in boundary problems solution of quantum nano-photonics

    STSM participant: Hovik Baghdasaryan, National Polytechnic University Of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia

    Host: Marian Marciniak, National Institute of Telecommunication, Warsaw, Poland

  • Enhanced temperature sensing in quantum many-body systems with conserved quantities

    STSM participant: Luis Alberto Correa Marichal, The University of Nottingham, UK

    Host: Anna Sanpera, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain

  • Theoretical study of novel methods for excitation of DC driven nanoantennas

    STSM participant: Igor Smetanin, P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Fed.

    Host: Alexander Bouhelier, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France

  • Spectroscopy of ZnO thin layers grown on R and C sapphire substrate.

    STSM participant: Jean-Philippe Girard, UTT, Troyes, France

    Host: Robert Taylor, Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford, UK

  • Time-resolved fluorescence anisotropy of organic dyes conjugated to plasmonic nanoparticles

    STSM participant: Alix Le Marois, King’s College London, UK

    Host: Dror Fixler, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel

  • Nano-fabrication and spectroscopy characterization of dielectric Mie resonators

    STSM participant: Simona Checcucci, LENS, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy

    Host: Marco Abbarchi, NSE-IM2NP – UMR CNRS, Marseille, France

  • Numerical models of SNSPD photodetection

    STSM participant: Mariia Sidorova, Institute of Optical Sensor Systems, DLR, Berlin, Germany

    Host: Jelmer Renema, The Queen’s College, Oxford University, UK

  • Integration of MoSi superconducting single-photon detectors on lithium niobate waveguides

    STSM participant: Claire Autebert, University of Geneva, Switzerland

    Host: Tim Bartley, University of Paderborn, Germany

  • Experimental investigation of a rectifying cut-wire metasurface for electromagnetic energy harvesting

    STSM participant: Gabin Thibaut Oumbe Tekam, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

    Host: Maria Kafesaki, University of Crete, Crete, Greece

2016

  • Study of integrated devices for continuous-variable QKD in free space

    STSM participant: Daniele Dequal, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy

    Host: Eleni Diamanti, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

  • Theoretical modeling of superradiance in microcavities

    STSM participant: Igor Protsenko, Lebedev physical institute, Moscow, Russia

    Host:Jesper Mørk, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

  • Correlations in quantum nano-optomechanics

    STSM participant: Mikolaj Schmidt, Centro de Fisica de Materiales, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain

    Host: Konrad Banaszek, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Poland

  • Kelvin probe force microscopy/surface photovoltage study of silicon vacancy centers in ultra-thin nanocrystalline diamond films

    STSM participant: Stepan Stehlik, Institute of Physics, ASCR, Praha, Czech Republic

    Host: Thilo Glatzel, University of Basel, Switzerland

  • Cavity Enhanced Charge Transport

    STSM participant: Claudiu Genes, University of Innsbruck, Austria

    Host: Guido Pupillo, Laboratoire de Physique Quantique, ISIS, Strasbourg, France

  • A spin-photon interface in silicon carbide

    STSM participant: Cristian Bonato, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK

    Host: Jörg Wrachtrup, 3rd Physical Institute, Stuttgart, Germany

  • Quantum Teleportation

    STSM Participant: Dr Klaus Jöns, KTH Stockholm, Sweden

    Host: Rinaldo Trotta, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Austria

  • Towards relativistic and quantum technologies

    STSM participant: David Edward Bruschi, University of York, United Kingdom,

    Host: Marcus Huber, Institut für Quantenoptik und Quanteninformation, Vienna, Austria

  • A silicon vacancy based quantum memory in diamond - Experimental demonstration of two-photon Raman transition and signal retrieval in an ensemble of silicon vacancy centres in diamond

    STSM participant: Christian Weinzetl, University of Oxford, UK

    Host: Christoph Becher, Universitaet des Saarlandes, Saarbrucken, Germany

  • Integrated Quantum Optics with SiV centers in Plasmonic Ring Grating - Nanoantenna Cavities (2)

    STSM participant: Ms Nancy Rahbany, Université de technologie de Troyes, France

    Host: Christoph Becher, Universitaet des Saarlandes, Experimentalphysik, Saarbrücken, Germany

  • Quantum emitters couple to plasmonic waveguides

    STSM participant: Sofia Pazzagli, Department of Physics and Astrophysics, Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy

    Host: Philippe Lalanne, Laboratoire Photonique, Numérique et Nanosciences, Bordeaux, France

  • Efficient extraction of coherently scattered photons from a single emitter

    STSM participant: Kai Ludwig Kirn, University of Stuttgart, Germany

    Host: Ruth Oulton, School of Physics, Bristol, UK

  • Quantum entanglement measurement and aspects of photon-photon correlations mediated by the solid-state spin

    STSM participant: Muhammad Alley Hameedi, Stockholm University, Sweden

    Host: Jörg Wrachtrup, 3rd Physical Institute, Stuttgart, Germany

  • A silicon vacancy based quantum memory in diamond

    STSM participant: Christian Weinzetl, University of Oxford, UK

    Host: Christoph Becher, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

  • Coordinate-based manipulation of photons on quantum-optical chips and the spontaneous emission of radiation

    STSM participant: Sophie Viaene, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

    Host: Philippe Tassin, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden

  • Improved simulation of open quantum systems through spectral densities decompositions

    STSM participant: Dario Tamascelli, University of Milano, Italy

    Host: Martin B. Plenio, Ulm Universität, Germany

  • Gold nanorods for entangled two-photon absorption

    STSM participant: Prof André Stefanov, University of Bern, Switzerland

    Host: Dror Fixler, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel

  • Plasmonics and Coherent Spectroscopy in Alkali Metal Vapor Cells

    STSM Applicant: Dimitar Slavov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Host: Ventsislav Valev, Department of Physics, University of Bath, UK

  • Integrated Quantum Optics with SiV centers in Plasmonic Ring Grating - Nanoantenna Cavities (2)

    STSM participant: Nancy Rahbany, Université de Technologie de Troyes, France

    Host: Christoph Becher, Universitaet des Saarlandes, Experimentalphysik, Saarbrücken, Germany

  • Tuneable waveguide single-photon sources

    STSM participant: Maurangelo Petruzzella, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

    Host: Mark Thomson, Centre for Quantum Photonics, University of Bristol, UK

  • The detection mechanism in MoSi SSPDs

    STSM participant: Jelmer Renema, University of Oxford, UK

    Host: Felix Bussieres, University of Geneva, Switzerland

  • Setup and Optimization of a Bell-Bloom Co-Magnetometer

    STSM participant: Daniel Arnold, Physikalisches Institut, Stuttgart, Germany

    Host:  Morgan Mitchell, ICFO, Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain

  • Photonic Crystal structures based on Quantum Dots emitting at telecom wavelength

    STSM participant: Giovanna Trevisi, IMEM-CNR Parma, Italy

    Host:  Pablo A. Postigo, Instituto de Microelectronica de Madrid, Spain

  • A silicon vacancy based quantum memory in diamond

    STSM participant: Jonas Becker, Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany

    Host: Joshua Nunn, University of Oxford, UK

  • Effects of losses on the generation of photon pairs by SFWM in integrated photonic structures

    STSM participant: Marco Liscidini, University of Pavia, Italy

    Host: Prof. John E. Sipe, University of Toronto, Canada

2015

  • Indistinguishable photons emitted by spin-blockaded biexcitonic states heralding dark excitons

    STSM participant: Alexander Thoma, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

    Host: David Gershoni, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

  • Integrated Quantum Optics in Plasmonic Ring Grating - Nanoantenna Cavities (1)

    STSM participant: Nancy Rahbany, University of Technology of Troyes, France

    Host: Mete Atatüre, University of Cambridge, UK

  • Building an efficient spin-photon interface with quantum dots

    STSM participant: Clemens Matthiesen, Cavendish Laboratory of the University of Cambridge, UK

    Host: Stephan Reitzenstein, Institute of Solid State Physics of Technical University of Berlin, Germany