Research summary
The study of light has spurred incredible technological change that has fundamentally altered the human experience. Inventions such as lasers, optical fibres and integrated photonics have played a key role in ushering in the information revolution. Now there is a growing consensus that the next revolution in optical technologies will come from harnessing the quantum nature of light. Dr. Deny Hamel is working to develop tools that will enable optical quantum information technologies.
As Canada Research Chair in Optics and Quantum information, Hamel is devising new methods of producing and measuring non-classical states of light and validating their use in processing optical quantum information. The innovative approaches that Hamel and his research team are working on could provide valuable insights into nonlinear optical processes at the single-photon level and into the behaviours of optical quantum systems, and may lead to opportunities to commercialize innovative technologies.