Group News
06/2011 A postdeadline submission to the 2011 Advanced Photonics Congress conference by Eric and Zhiyuan was accepted. Congratulations, Eric and Zhiyuan!.
06/2011 Fei, Lijun, Chris, Eric and William will be presenting at the upcoming 2011 Advanced Photonics Congress conference! Congratulations to all!
06/2011 Eric has won an NSERC Doctoral Scholarship. Congratulations, Eric!.
06/2011 Peyman has won a SPIE Scholarship. Congratulations, Peyman!.
06/2011 Fei publishes his work on continuous-wave cavity ring-down measurements based on Frequency Shifted Interferometry in Optics Letters
05/2011 We are granted a PoP project by the Ministry of Research and Innovations on Quantum Random Number Generator.
05/2011 Eric, Peyman, Chris, and Jason will be presenting at the 2011 CLEO conference. Zhiyuan is a co-author on one of the papers. Congratulations to Eric, Peyman, Chris, Jason and Zhiyuan!
03/2011 Michael has won the prestigious NSERC Vanier Scholarship . This scholarship is extremely competitive, given to world-class doctoral students, valued at $50,000 per year for three years. Well done, Michael!
01/2011 Welcome Hui-Lin! Ms. Hui-Lin Hsu will be pursuing her PhD degree under Prof. Kherani and Prof. Qian, focusing research on amorphous carbon material for photonic applications.
09/2010 Welcome, Christian! Dr. Christian Weedbrook will be working with Prof. Lo and Prof. Qian as a postdoctoral fellow. He won the competitive PhD fellowship offered by the Ontario Ministry of Research as well as the prize postdoctoral fellowship in CQIQC. Congratulations Christian! Christian will be working on the theoretical aspects of continuous-variable QKD.
09/2010 Welcome back, Michael! Michael Galle is back to our group to pursue his PhD degree, while remaining as the President of Inometrix.
09/2010 Welcome this year's new graduate students: Zhiyuan Tang, Ahmed Akef, and Daniel Huynh. Zhiyuan comes from U of Alberta and will be pursuing a PhD degree in the physics department, and Ahmad Akef is an ECE M.A.Sc. student, both are co-supervised by Prof. Qian and Prof. Lo. Both will be working on projects in QKD. Daniel is an M.A.Sc student working under Prof. Lothar Lilge (Ontario Cancer Institute) and Prof. Qian. He will be investigating tissue response under modulated laser illumination.
08/2010 Dr. Bing Qi filed patent applications on Quantum Random Number Generation. This technology would enable truly random numbers to be generated at a high-speed (>Gb/s), with a wide range of applications, from data security to communications.
08/2010 Congratulations Wing Chau, for a successful MASc. thesis defense!
07/2010 Congratulations William, for a successful MASc. thesis defense!
07/2010 Dr. Wen Zhu will be leaving our group to accept another position in UTM campus. You've helped us a lot over the years and we will all miss you, Wen!
06/2010 Congratulations Fei, for getting the best student oral presentation prize at the CIPI annual meeting!
06/2010 Fei and Lijun presented at the CIPI Annual Meeting 2010 in Niagara Falls. Fei presented his recent work on liquid level sensing in a cryogenic environment, and Lijun disclosed his idea of enhancing nonlinear gain in a periodically poled silica fiber.
06/2010 Wing-Chau collaborated with Laval University on his wavelength conversion experiments using AlGaAs waveguides. He performed system demonstration in Laval.
05/2010 Prof. Qian visited IVG Fiber to further advance industry collaboration.
05/2010 Congratulations to Peyman, for being awarded the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS)! It is extremely rare for visa students to obtain an OGS. So, well done, Peyman!
05/2010 Congratulations to Eric, for breezing through his PhD qualifying exam!
05/2010 Three summer students, Edward Lee Kim-Koon, Xuzhou (Leo) Zhang, and Lucy Li, joined us this summer to assist research in our group. Edward is working with Eric on entangled photon pair generation, Leo is doing exploratory work on diamond-like carbon films, and Lucy Li is working with Jason on laser fabrication of optical devices. All are second-year EngSci students. Welcome!
04/2010 Eric Zhu publishes his work on the measurement of chi(2)symmetry in poled fibers in Optics Letters. This work provides the first convincing experimental evidence that chi(2) in poled fiber is originated from chi(3) of silica fiber. This is also the first report of measurement of individual chi(2) tensor elements in fiber. Congratulations Eric!
04/2010 Shahabedin Shahdoostfard, a Masters student from Sharif University of Technology, is visiting us for the next few months. Welcome, Shahab! Under the co-supervision of Prof. Ng (Electronics group) and Prof. Qian, Shahab will design a state-of-the-art low-noise transimpedance amplifier to use with our high-speed optical homodyne detector in QKD system.
03/2010 Eric and Chris will present their recent work in CLEO 2010 in San Jose, both as first authors.
03/2010 Michael Galle, a former graduate student of the group and President of Inometrix showcases his dispersion measurement product in OFC (Optical Fiber Communication Conference) 2010.
01/2010 Eric has successfully defended his M.A.Sc. thesis on nonlinear measurement on periodically poled fiber. A major part of his work is highly original. Congratulations, Eric!
10/2009 Raymond Tsai publishes his work on erbium-doped deuterated amorphous carbon in Optics Express. This novel carbon material is easy to fabricate, and is compatible with Si substrate and CMOS technology. It opens the door to making active photonic devices (lasers and amplifiers) directly on silicon. It enables seamless integration of photonics and electronics, and may have long-lasting impact on future computer chips.
10/2009 Our proposal "Compact Entangled Photon Sources for Practical Quantum Systems" has won an NSERC Strategic Grant! This is a collaborative project involving Prof. Helmy (ECE), Prof. Lo(ECE & Physics), and Prof. Sipe (Physics). Prof. Qian is the principle investigator (PI). Our group is responsible for the development of all-fiber entangled photon sources. We will participate in building entanglement-based QKD system as well. We are currently looking for one new postdoc to work on developing all-fiber entangled photon sources.
10/2009 We have won another NSERC strategic grant titled "Gas Composition Sensor for Biogas Fueled Engines" (in collaboration with Prof. Wallace in MIE). We are recruiting one new graduate student to work on this project, developing fiber-optic sensors using our patented Frequency-shifted interferometry technology.
09/2009 Yuemeng has successfully defended her Master's Thesis on constructing an optical homodyne detector for coherent-state quantum key distribution (QKD) systems. Congratulations!
08/2009 CQIQC has successfully completed its third Conference on Quantum Information and Quantum Control. This is also the inaugural year for the John Stewart Bell Prize, presented to Dr. Nicolas Gisin by Prof. Alain Aspect.
08/2009 Bing presented his Quantum Random Number Generation work at the AQIS (Asian Conference on Quantum Information Science)
07/2009 Li attended and presented at the Dagsthul seminar - Classical and Quantum Information Assurance: Foundations and Practice , Schloss Dagsthul, Germany.
07/2009 Congratulations to Fei on publishing his work in IEEE J. of Lightwave Technology
07/2009 With the support from INO and IVG Fiber , we are granted another CIPI grant to continue poled fiber work
06/2009 Congratulations to Jiawen on publishing his work in JOSA B!
06/2009 Yuemeng presented her work in Quantum Works annual meeting.
05/2009 Congratulations to Peyman, Lijun, Fei and Jason for successfully passing the PhD Qualifying Exam.
03/2009 All three papers we submitted to CLEO 2009 have been accepted for oral presentation. Congratulations to Fei, Eric and Raymond!
01/2009 A warm welcome to Jason Ng, a new PhD student who joined us after obtaining an M.S. from Physics. Jason is co-supervised by Prof. Herman and Prof. Qian, and he will be working on fabricating poled waveguides and fibers using laser machining.
10/2008 Congratulations to this year's graduates: Kenny Ho (M.A.Sc.), Fei Ye (M.A.Sc.), Jiawen Zhang (M.A.Sc.) and Raymond Tsai (M.A.Sc.)
09/2008 We are pleased to welcome the following new graduate students: Peyman Sarrafi from Sharif University, Lijun Zhang from York University, Wing Chau Ng from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and William La from our own EngSci Program. Warmest welcome to all!
08/2008 Dr. Bing Qi and Prof. Qian each gave an invited talk at the SPIE Optics + Photonics 2008 in San Diego.
07/2008 Jiawen Zhang and Kenny Ho each presented a paper at the Summer OSA Optics and Photonics Congress 2008 in Boston. Congratulations!
07/2008 Kenny won an OCE Professional Outreach Award, in support of his COTA oral presentation on all-fiber optical arbitrary waveform generation. Congratulations!
06/2008 We won a CIPI New Collaboration Grant with the support from FOX-TEK
06/2008 Fei's work on Multiplexing Fiber Sensors using Frequency-shifted Interferometer is published in IEEE Photonics Technology Letters.
05/2008 We are pleased to announce new members: Lei Wu, a summer research student holding an NSERC USRA award; Pongpun Laosettanun and Chanachai Poorsi, exchange students from Thailand; and Liang Tian, a visiting student from China sponsored by the China Scholarship Council. Welcome to all!
05/2008 Kenny Ho's work on Optical Arbitrary Waveform Generation is published in Optics Letters. Moreover, this paper has been selected for the August 2008 issue of Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science. The Virtual Journal, which is published by the American Physical Society and the American Institute of Physics in cooperation with numerous other societies and publishers, is an edited compilation of links to articles from participating publishers, covering a focused area of frontier research.
04/2008 Kenny Ho and Li Qian file Provisional US Patent on the all-fiber OAWG technique.
03/2008 Chris Sapiano won an OCE Professional Outreach Award, in support of his CLEO oral presentation on the modeling of nonlinear effects in thermally-poled silica fibers. Congratulations!
02/2008 Chris and Bing each has a paper accepted for oral presentation at CLEO 2008. Yuemeng is a co-author in one of the papers. Congratulations to all!
02/2008 We won an OCE Interact grant with cash and in-kind support from Fiber Optic Systems Technology Inc. (FOX-TEK) to develop multi-point fiber sensing technology.
02/2008 Mike Galle, former graduate student of the group and President of Inometrix Inc., will hold a conference with EXFO to discuss mutual business interest and potential partnership.
02/2008 Kenny Ho won a CIPI graduate student exchange grant to visit Universite Laval and collaborate with Prof. Real Vallee's group in transferring grating axial compression technique to the University of Toronto. Congratulations!
12/2007 Fei Ye and Jiawen Zhang each has a paper accepted for oral presentation at OFC 2008. Congratulations!
12/2007 Our PRA paper has been selected for the December 10, 2007 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology. The Virtual Journal, which is published by the American Institute of Physics and the American Physical Society in cooperation with numerous other societies and publishers, is an edited compilation of links to articles from participating publishers, covering a focused area of frontier research. .
11/2007 Mike Galle creates Inometrix Inc.. The new spin-off company will utilize the dispersion measurement technology developed in Mike's thesis.
10/2007 Bing Qi and Leilei Huang publish GMCS QKD results in Phys. Rev. A.
10/2007 Mike Galle, Waleed Mohammed and Prof. Qian file 2 patent applications on dispersion measurement techniques.
10/2007 Fiber Optic Systems Technology Inc. (FOX-TEK) and Corning Inc. lend support to our optic sensor research.
10/2007 Mike Galle and Waleed Mohammed publish dispersion measurement techniques in Optics Express and Optics Letters
09/2007 Darren Wu's post-deadline paper on multi-channel wavelength conversion is accepted at the Nonlinear Photonics Conference.