Our research is funded by:
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
- Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- New York State
- 09/2026: Our collaborative work on using Single-Photon-Added Coherent States (SPACS) to beat the Standard Quantum Limit was published in Adv. Phys. Research. Here is the link.
- 08/2026: Prof. Jha gave an invited talk during IEEE RAPID. Thank you, Prof. Howard Lee (UC Irvine), for the invitation.
- 07/2026: Prof. Jha gave an invited talk during the Optica Advanced Photonics Congress. Thank you, Prof. Jonathan Hu (Baylor University), for the invitation.
- 04/2026: Prof. Jha gave an invited talk during MRS Spring. Thank you, Prof. Howard Lee (UC Irvine), for the invitation.
- 04/2026: Our collaborative work (CalTech, SU, and Boeing) using photon addition to beat classical signal-to-noise ratio on a chip was published as Editors’ Pick in APL Quantum. Congrats to Kristina (CalTech) and Amir (SU) who co-lead the work. Here is the link.
- 03/2026: QTL Members, J. Rout, A. Targholizadeh, J. Watt, S. Macaluso, A. Pattanayak, S. Behera presented research during the NNN Symposium.
- 09/2025: SU News about recent AFRL Grant Award.
- 06/2025: SU News about recent NSF Grant Award.
- 06/2025: Our proposal for developing a sub-GHz tunable, high-speed, and ultranarrow bandwith filter using color centers was selected for a grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). Thank you, AFRL for your support.
- 05/2025: Our Caltech (Lead)-SU project, which aims to develop a Chip-Based Photon Addition module, has been awarded Phase II funding from DARPA Photon-Efficient Nanoscale Optical Metrology (PhENOM) Disruption Opportunity. Thank you, Harry (plus the Caltech team), as well as the SU QTL Team for your hard work during Phase I.
- 04/2025: Our proposal for developing single-photon detectors using high-temperature superconductors iron-chalcogenides [Fe(Te,Se)] was selected for a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Thank you, NSF for your support.
- 02/2025: Prof. Jha gave an invited talk titled “2D Materials and Heterostructures for Quantum Technologies” at the US Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT). Thank you, Prof. Anil Patanaik for the invitation.
- 01/2025: First experimental paper from our group got published in Applied Physics Quantum (link). Congratulations to Postdoc Dr. Aswini Pattanayak and graduate student Jagi Rout.
A. K. Pattanayak et al., APL Quantum 2, 016111 (2025).
M. Bhupati et al., Adv. Physics Res. 2400089 (2024).
P. K. Jha et al., Nanotechnology 33, 015001 (2022).