News

News

• Congratulations to Prof. Robert Fickler for being appointed as an Assistant Professor at the University of Tampere.
• Congratulations to Prof. Eliahu Cohen for being appointed as an Assistant Professor at the Bar Ilan University.
• Congratulations to Hugo Larocque for being accepted in MIT – Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a PhD student.
• Congratulations to our Italian and German colleagues, in particular, Vincenzo Grillo, for winning European Project on electron Quantum Sorter (Q-SORT).
• Congratulations to Dominic Mortimer and Aazad Abbas for being awarded the NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award.
• Congratulations to Robert Fickler for being awarded the Banting Fellowship (the most prestigious Canadian postdoctoral fellowship).
• Congratulations to Frederic Bouchard for being awarded the Vanier scholarship (the most prestigious Canadian graduate scholarship).
• Congratulations to Alicia Sit and Aazad Abbas for being awarded the NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award.
• Congratulations to Alicia Sit and Hugo Larocque for being awarded the Stephen Odoysk Memorial Scholarship.
• Prof. Ebrahim Karimi has been awarded the Canada Foundation for Innovation. 
• Prof. Ebrahim Karimi has been awarded the Canada Research Chair in Structured Light.
• Congratulations to Alicia Sit for being awarded the second best talk in Optics at the Canadian Undergraduate Physics Conference (CUPC) 2015.
• Congratulations to Jérémie Gagnon-Bischoff for being awarded the UROP scholarship.
• Congratulations to Frederic Bouchard and his coworkers on their publication in Scientific Reports; Observation of quantum recoherence of photons by spatial propagation, Scientific Reports 5, 15330 (2015).
• Congratulations to Harjaspreet Mand, Alicia Sit, and Hugo Larocque for being awarded the NSERC scholarship.
• Congratulations to Nicolas Bent and his coworkers on their publication in Physical Review X; Experimental realization of quantum tomography of photonic qudits via symmetric informationally complete positive operator-valued measures, Physical Review X 5, 041006 (2015).
• Congratulations to Jeremie Harris and Italian coworkers on their publication in Nature Physics; Structured Quantum Waves, Nature Physics 11, 629 (2015).
• Frederic Bouchard and Ebrahim Karimi are invited to give talks at the 12th International Conference “Correlation Optics” Ukraine in September 2015.
• Prof. Ebrahim Karimi is invited to give a talk at the third International Conference on Optical Angular Momentum (ICOAM) New York in August 2015.
• Congratulation to Jeremie Harris and Frederic Bouchard for being selected to give oral presentations at the Photonics North conference.
• Prof. Ebrahim Karimi is invited to give a talk about “Observation of optical polarisation Möbius strip” at the Photonics North.
• Congratulations to Harjaspreet Mand, Alicia Sit, and Hugo Larocque for being awarded the NSERC scholarship.

 

Highlighted Research

• Experimental realization of wave-packet dynamics in cyclic quantum walks, Optica 6, 174 (2019). On news outlets: [link1, link2, link3, link4, link5]. Congratulations to Farshad Nejatsattari, Yingwen Zhang and their colleagues, as well as to Alicia Sit for getting on the cover of Optica [photo credit Alicia Sit]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Reconstructing the topology of optical polarization knots, Nature Physics 14, (2018). On news outlets: [link1, link2, link3, link4, link5]. Congratulations to Hugo Laroque and his colleagues.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• First high-dimensional intra-city quantum communication, Optica 4, 1006 (2017). — On news outlet [link1, link2, link3, link4, link5]. Congratulations to Alicia Sit and her colleagues.

 

 

 

 

 

• Measuring the orbital angular momentum spectrum of an electron beam, Nature Communications 8, 15536 (2017). — Congratulations to our Italian, German and Scottish colleagues as well as to Hugo and Fred.

 

 

 

• High-dimensional quantum cloning and applications to quantum hacking, Science Advances 3, e1601915  (2017). — On news outlet [link1, link2, link3]. Congratulations to Fred, and Robert!

 

 

 

• Revealing optical vortices with a small number of photons, W Zhang, J Wang, F Li, L Chen, E Karimi, Laser & Photonic Review 11, 1770003 (2017). –Congratulations to my Chinese colleagues!

 

 

 

 

• “Nondestructive measurement on electron wavepackets, Physical Review Letters 117, 154801 (2016). — [photo credit Alicia Sit]

 

 

 

• “Slowing Down Light with a Twist, Optica 3, 351 (2016).” On news outlet [link1, link2, link3, link4, link5] — [photo credit Alicia Sit]

 

 

 

 

 

• “Classical Entanglement? Science 350, 1172 (2015).” [photo credit Ebrahim Karimi]

 

 

 

• “Experimental realization of quantum tomography of photonic qudits via symmetric informationally complete positive operator-valued measures, Physical Review X 5, 041006 (2015).” [photo credit Ebrahim Karimi]

 

 

 

 

• “Structured Quantum Waves, Nature Physics 11, 629 (2015).” [photo credit Alicia Sit]

 

 

 

 

 

• “4 X 20 Gbit/s mode division multiplexing over free space using vector modes and a q-plate mode (de)multiplexer, Optics Letters 40, 1980 (2015)” on news outlet [link1,link2].

 

 

 

• “Achromatic orbital angular momentum generator, New Journal of Physics 16, 123006 (2014)” is highlighted by Nature Photonics [link].

 

 

 

• “Observation of optical polarization Möbius strips, Science 347, 964 (2015)”  on Media PhysicsWorld, New Scientist, Photonics, Optics and Photonics News.

 

 

 

• “Holographic generation of highly twisted electron beams, Physical Review Letters,  114, 034801 (2015)” is highlighted by Physical Review Focus [Link].