Research
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Latest funding
- $86,000
Imaging single photons in nanophotonic microscopy: towards on-demand single photon sources
NSERC · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $100,000
Enhanced metasurface design and fabrication to explore nonlinear optical phenomena
NSERC · 2023 · Principal investigator
- $150,000
Quantum Nonlinear Optics
NSERC · 2023 · Principal investigator
No publications available.
Imaging single photons in nanophotonic microscopy: towards on-demand single photon sources
Principal investigators: Boyd, Robert
Keywords: quantum technologies; quantum optics; single-photon emitters; nanostructured environment; on-demand single photon source; quantum emission control; precise characterization of nanophotonics devices; microscopy
Enhanced metasurface design and fabrication to explore nonlinear optical phenomena
Principal investigators: Boyd, Robert RWB
Keywords: metasurface filters; metasurface plasmonic; nonlinear optics; photonics; spectral filtering; visible to near-infrared
Quantum Nonlinear Optics
Principal investigators: Boyd, Robert
Keywords: Photonics; Nonlinear Optics; Quantum Imaging; Optical Metamaterials; Quantum Radiometry; Quantum Technologies; Secure Quantum-Communication; Slow and Fast Light; Fundamental studies in quantum photonics
Quantum Enhanced Sensing and Imaging (QuEnSI)
Principal investigators: Boyd, Robert RWB
Keywords: imaging; light-matter interactions; quantum imaging; quantum technologies; sensing
Enhancing spontaneous emission from quantum emitters via plasmonic sub-diffraction nanocavities
Principal investigators: Boyd, Robert RW
Application of a space compressing optic to sensors, Phase 1
Principal investigators: Lundeen, Jeffrey
Characterizing enhanced nonlinear optical responses in the mid-infrared spectrum
Principal investigators: Boyd, Robert
Plasmonic spectral filters from the visible to the far-infrared region_x000d_
Principal investigators: Boyd, Robert
Ultrafast terahertz monitoring of extremely high nonlinearities in semiconductors and dynamical excitons in strongly correlated materials
Principal investigators: Ménard, JeanMichel
Quantum Photonics and the Physics of Light
Principal investigators: Boyd, Robert
Keywords: photonics; quantum optics; nonlinear optics; metamaterials; quantum information; nanofabrication; nanooptics; epsilon-near-zero materials
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