Projects and Attachments

Honours Projects

As part of the four year physics honours degree at NUS, students are supposed to spend two semesters developing their own research project. In the QIT Quantum Optics lab we usually concurrently host 3-4 honours students depending on the availability of space and time. Our projects tend to be very applied and require combining a number of experimental techniques (e.g. basic electronics, basic optical design, simple data acquisition programming). Each year we propose a few projects and students are wellcome to come for an informal chat to discuss what the projects are about or discuss variations.

Examples of past project titles are:

• Multiphoton Bell inequalities.
• Narrow bandwidth PDC sources.
• Fast polarization-independent switching.
• Daylight entanglement distribution.
• Optical autocorrelation using non-linearity in a simple photodiode.
• Efficient polarization measurement for quantum cryptography.
• Experiments with multiphoton states
• Characterization of entangled photons via Bell's inequalities.

or see here for a small writeup of past projects.

UROPS Projects

These are optional one semester projects for undergraduates that can be used to offset some of the coursework modular credits. These projects are simpler and tend to be confined to a small technical aspect of a larger research project. Some times they develop into Honours projects.

Past examples include:

• Quantum hacking.
• Simple optical autocorrelator.
• Single photon spectrometer.

Attachments

We occasionally host people that do not fit into any of the other categories. This can include for example people doing Diploma work (e.g. from Germany) or people who are bonded to work in Singapore because they received some scholarship (A-Star scholars for example).