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