Low-Temperature Cavity QED Laboratory MQ

The Low-Temperature Cavity QED Laboratory at CSIRO Lindfield complements the facilities/experiments of the Diamond Nanoscience Laboratory at Macquarie University.

The Lindfield Laboratory provides excellent environmental conditions and great stability for carrying out experiments with solid-state emitters coupled to semi-integrated fibre cavities at liquid-helium temperatures. Besides the low-T optical fibre-cavity microscope, the lab houses two widely tunable high-power laser systems (cw and pulsed) and a high-resolution spectrometer for carrying out cavity QED studies of low-dimensional semiconductor nanostructures and diamond colour centres such as NV and SiV centres.

Lab leads

Sarath Raman Nair

Chief Investigator

Sarath's research is focused on experimentally developing quantum technologies using solid-state quantum systems and their interaction with microwave…

Thomas Volz

Associate Investigator

Thomas is an internationally recognised expert in mesoscopic quantum optics and semiconductor quantum photonics. He led the Quantum Materials and…

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Lab members

Ali Fawaz

PhD Student

Ali was a Masters student and then a PhD Candidate at Macquarie University based at CSIRO Lindfield, investigating solid-state spin-cavity systems…

Andrew Wood

PhD Student

Andrew was a postgraduate student at Macquarie University undertaking a PhD with Dr Thomas Volz. His research focus targeted mechanically tuneable…

Anindya Sundar Paul

PhD Student

Anindya was a cotutelle PhD student between University of St Andrews, Scotland and Macquarie University, Australia, working on Strong light-matter…

Brendan Wouterlood

Honours student

Brenda is a former Honours Student at Macquarie University. He was working on implementing a laser power stabilisation loop with the hope of using…

Guillermo Matutano

Research Fellow

Guillermo is a former Research Fellow who worked at Macquarie University in the field of quantum polaritonics, testing exciton-polariton blockade and…

Harish Vallabhapurapu

Research Fellow

Harish comes from a background in electrical engineering and quantum computing, with his doctoral thesis on the topic of quantum computation using…

Iftekher Chowdhury

PhD Student

Iftekher was undertaking his PhD in Quantum Optics and Atomic Physics at Macquarie University with Prof Thomas Volz

Lorenzo Scarpelli

Research Fellow

Lorenzo was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Prof Thomas Volz at Macquarie University. The research that Lorenzo was conducting was focused on…

Maria Villavedra

Masters Student

Maria is a former Masters of Research (MRes) student at Macquarie University working in the Low-Temperature Cavity QED Lab

Meera Mohana Varier

Masters Student

Meera was an MRes student in the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at Macquarie University. She is a graduate with a Masters degree (M

Nikhil Narkhede

PhD Student

Nikhil was a PhD Scholar working with CI Thomas Volz at Macquarie University. His PhD research focused on the Advanced Transition metal…

Raji Bhaskaran Nair

PhD Student

Raji was a PhD student working with CI Thomas Volz and A/Prof Alexei Gilchrist at Macquarie University. Her PhD research focused on Quantum…

Sarath Raman Nair

Chief Investigator

Sarath's research is focused on experimentally developing quantum technologies using solid-state quantum systems and their interaction with microwave…

Thomas Volz

Associate Investigator

Thomas is an internationally recognised expert in mesoscopic quantum optics and semiconductor quantum photonics. He led the Quantum Materials and…

More information

The Low-Temperature Cavity QED Laboratory at CSIRO Lindfield is part of the Macquarie University Centre for Quantum Engineering (CQE), which brings together experts to design 2nd generation quantum machines that take real world constraints into account like noise, finite control resources, and even general relativity.

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