PhD project at the intersection of ultrafast photonics, extreme nonlinear response and quantum optics

PhD position available at 3iT (Institut interdisciplinaire d’innovation technologique) in the group of Pr. Paul Charette from Université de Sherbrooke in collaboration with Pr. Denis Seletskiy from Polytechnique Montréal.

Context:
Studies of time-domain quantum optics are still at their early stages. In a series of recent exciting developments, professors Paul Charette of the Université de Sherbrooke and Denis Seletskiy of Poly-Montréal have recently made a proof-of-principle demonstration of the tunnelling currents driven by quantum light through nanoscale gaps of metallic nanoantennae [1]. The successful candidate will build on these early results to propel the project toward a detailed understanding of the light-matter interaction at the extreme nonlinear regime, with the focus on field-resolved detection of quantum light while varying critical design parameters of the nanodevice