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Flagships

Quantum Metrology, Sensing and Imaging

This flagship will bring together the collective expertise of South African researchers to fast tract the development and deployment of a range of products for medicine, aerospace, military and telecommunications.

Projects

Prof. Mark Tame

The use of quantum states of light in quantum sensing, such as single photons and multi-photon entangled states, provides an enhancement in the precision that can be reached for a given photon flux. This project aims to develop a quantum biosensor and quantum light source for sensing

Prof. Mark Blumenthal

The transfer of quantum information encoded via photons remains one of the key technologies for realising quantum cryptography in free-space or fibre-coupled quantum transfer. To this end, the need for a reliable source of on-demand single photons remains the subject of much research activity.

Prof. Tjaart Kruger

This project aims to use the second-order autocorrelation function, g(2)(t), of photons emitted by nanoscaled photon emitters to sense changes in the emitters’ environments.

Prof. Thomas Konrad

This project focuses on developing techniques to test and validate quantum devices, a crucial aspect of ensuring the reliability and functionality of emerging quantum technologies.

Prof Andrew Forbes

In this project, we are developing new quantum imaging protocols using sources of entangled photons. By understanding, analysing, manipulating, and measuring unique properties of entangled photons, we build imaging systems that exploit them.