Sending Quantum Entangled Photons Across Campus
We will use a pair of amateur astronomy telescopes and mounts to beam a laser and then individual photons from one telescope to another telescope. Each telescope will send a beacon laser so they can properly point at each other using cameras and other, faster, analog mirror-tiling feedback mechanisms.
Relevant experience includes optics, electronics, amateur astronomy, python data analysis, Linux hardware interfacing, and C/C++ Arduino-like programming.
Applicants will be selected based on their ability to independently read relevant documentation and figure out how to make the optics, electronics, and software work together. Please list your own relevant experience, detailing your particular contribution to any group projects.
We will be studying the fundamentals of quantum mechanics by designing and building experiments involving optics and electronics and tying it all together with python where possible and C/C++ where necessary.