Background
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- Ph.D. in Experimental Phyiscs in the field of Atom
Optics/Interferometry (1997, Universität Konstanz,
Germany)
- Postdoc at IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA on an
ion trap
experiment (1997-1999)
- Scientific Staff at
Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität
München,
Germany (1999-2003)
- Faculty Member at the Physics Department of the National
University of
Singapore since 2003
- Principal Investigator at the Centre fro Quantum Technologies in NUS since 2008
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Representative
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Atom-Photon interface
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M.K. Tey, Z. Chen, S.A. Aljunid, B. Chng, F. Huber,
G. Maslennikov and Ch. Kurtsiefer:
Strong interaction between
light and a single trapped atom without the need for a cavity
Nature Physics 4, 924
(2008)
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Four Photon
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M. Eibl, S.
Gaertner, M. Mourennane, Ch. Kurtsiefer, M. Zukowski, H.
Weinfurter: Four photon entanglement
from down-conversion
Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 200403
(2003)
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Quantum
Cryptography |
Ch. Kurtsiefer, P.
Zarda, Matthäus Halder; H. Weinfurter, P.M. Gorman, P.R.
Tapster,
and J.G. Rarity: A steptowards
global key distribution
Nature 419,
450
(2002)
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Single Photon
Source
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Ch. Kurtsiefer, P.
Zarda, S. Mayer, and H.
Weinfurter: A stable solid-state
source of single photons
Phys. Rev. Lett. 85,
290 (2000)
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Entangled
Photon Pairs
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Ch.
Kurtsiefer, M. Oberparleiter, and H. Weinfurter: High
efficiency entangled photon pair collection in type II parametric
fluorescence
Phys. Rev. A 64,
010102(R) (2001) |
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Atomic Matter
waves
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Ch. Kurtsiefer, T.
Pfau, and J.Mlynek: Experimental
determination of
the motional Wigner function of a Helium atom
Nature 386, 150 (1997)
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