NRC-uOttawa Joint Centre for Extreme Photonics

The National Research Council (NRC) and the University of Ottawa (uOttawa) have a long‑standing research relationship in the field of photonics. The Joint Centre for Extreme Photonics (JCEP) team is composed of researchers whose work will lead to new technologies, patents and many other innovations.

Collaborators

• uOttawa
• NRC Security and Disruptive Technologies Research Centre
• NRC Metrology Research Centre

Current areas of focus

• free‑space quantum key distribution link over the city of Ottawa
• non‑linear mixing of cylindrical vector beams in optical fibers
• high‑sensitivity detection of terahertz radiation
• high harmonic generation at the nanoscale
• ultrafast electronic coherences in molecules using transient absorption and photoelectron imaging techniques
• UV frequency combs

Research expertise

• attosecond science
• extreme and quantum photonics
• high‑resolution, high‑accuracy clocks
• nanophotonics
• ultrafast quantum photonics

Research publications

• Peng Peng, Yonghao Mi, Marianna Lytova, Mathew Britton, Xiaoyan Ding, A. Yu Naumov, P. B. Corkum, D. M. Villeneuve,
  Coherent Control of Ultrafast Extreme Ultraviolet Transient Absorption,
  Nature Photonics 16, 45–51 (2022)
• R. Forbes, S.P. Neville, M.A.B. Larsen, A. Röder, A.E. Boguslavskiy, R. Lausten, M.S. Schuurman, A. Stolow.
  "Vacuum Ultraviolet Excited State Dynamics of the Smallest Ketone: Acetone"
  Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 12, 8541-8547 (2021)
• F. Bouchard, D. England, P. J. Bustard, K. L. Fenwick, E. Karimi, K. Heshami, and B. Sussman,
  Achieving Ultimate Noise Tolerance in Quantum Communication,
  Physical Review Applied 15, 024027 (2021)
• E Scott Goudreau, Connor Kupchak, Benjamin J Sussman, Robert W Boyd, Jeff S Lundeen,
  Theory of four-wave mixing of cylindrical vector beams in optical fibers,
  Journal of the Optical Society of America B 37, 1670-1682 (2020)
• Xiaoyan Ding, R. Forbes, M. Kübel, Kevin F. Lee, M. Spanner, A. Yu. Naumov, D. M. Villeneuve, A. Stolow, P. B. Corkum, A. Staudte,
  Threshold Photodissociation Dynamics of NO2 Studied by Time-Resolved Cold Target Recoil Ion Momentum Spectroscopy,
  The Journal Of Chemical Physics 151, 174301 (2019)