Photonic Quantum Systems Group (PhoQuS) Led by Prof. Saikat Guha at the University of Maryland, College Park

Projects

This page shows our upcoming, current and past sponsored research projects.

Current

Quantum Augmented Networks (QuaNET)
Quantum Augmented Networks (QuaNET) DARPA

Using squeezing and entangled photons in the physical layer for enhancing security, privacy and resilience of an optical communications network.

Photon-Efficient Nanoscale Optical Metrology (PHENOM)
Photon-Efficient Nanoscale Optical Metrology (PHENOM) DARPA

Generation of many-photon entangled states using atomic emitters that act as codes for photon loss but exhibit quantum-enhanced phase sensitivity.

Optimizing Entanglement to attain Quantum Limit of Long-Baseline Imaging
Optimizing Entanglement to attain Quantum Limit of Long-Baseline Imaging AFOSR

Investigation of the use of distributed entanglement to enhance the performance of an array of passive and/or active sensors.

Center for Quantum Networks (CQN)
Center for Quantum Networks (CQN) NSF

Gen-IV Engineering Research Center (ERC) dedicated to the development of the full-stack future quantum internet.

Intensity-Squeezed Photonic Integration for Revolutionary Detectors (INSPIRE)
Intensity-Squeezed Photonic Integration for Revolutionary Detectors (INSPIRE) DARPA

Developing on-chip squeezed light sources for sensor applications that could generate upwards of 20dB of continuous-wave squeezed light at optical frequencies.

Spatial Mode Sorting for super-resolution object recognition
Spatial Mode Sorting for super-resolution object recognition RTX

Reconfigurable sorting of spatial modes with programmable multi-plane light conversion (MPLC) built using spatial light modulators, for enhanced object recognition with space-domain awareness applications.

Ultra low-overhead photonic quantum computation using a squeezing-amplified weak cross-Kerr modulation
Ultra low-overhead photonic quantum computation using a squeezing-amplified weak cross-Kerr modulation AFOSR

To design a parametric control protocol to realize the currently-unrealizable implementation of a two-mode optical cross-Kerr interaction at low input photon number levels—by iterated application of quantum squeezing operations for a fast and loss-mitigated accrual of weak photonic cross-Kerr phase.

Performance Integrated Quantum Scalable Internet (PiQSci)
Performance Integrated Quantum Scalable Internet (PiQSci) Oak Ridge National Laboratories (ORNL), DoE

In this project, we assess and develop the network architectures and communications protocols needed to build and operate quantum networks for US Department of Energy (DOE) quantum computing and sensing systems.

Upcoming

Past

Green Machine Receiver for Superadditive Communications
Green Machine Receiver for Superadditive Communications NASA

An experimental realization of a quantum-inspired linear-optical joint-detection receiver for reduced peak power transmission over a deep space lasercom link in a photon-starved regime.