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
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
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Samuel Lemieux, Sohail Jalil, David N. Purschke, Neda Boroumand, T.J. Hammond, David M. Villeneuve, Andrei Naumov, Thomas Brabec, Giulio Vampa
Photon bunching in high-harmonic emission controlled by quantum light,
Nature Photonics (May 2025) -
Brayden A. Freitas, Yingwen Zhang, Duncan G. England, Jeff S. Lundeen, and Ben J. Sussman
Quantum correlated image recording through noisy and turbulent channels, Optica Quantum 3, 78-83 (2025). -
Kamalesh Jana, Yonghao Mi, Søren H. Møller, Dong Hyuk Ko, Shima Gholam-Mirzaei, Daryoush Abdollahpour, Shawn Sederberg, Paul B. Corkum
Quantum Control of Flying Doughnut Terahertz Pulses, Science Advances Vol. 10, Issue 2 (2024) -
Défi Junior Jubgang Fandio, Aswin Vishnuradhan, Eeswar Kumar Yalavarthi, Wei Cui, Nicolas Couture, Angela Gamouras, and Jean-Michel Ménard
Zeptojoule detection of terahertz pulses by parametric frequency upconversion, Opt. Lett. 49, 1556-1559 (2024) -
Liu, Shilong, Zhang, Yingwen, Malomed, Boris A., Karimi, Ebrahim
Experimental realisations of the factional Schrödinger equation in the temporal domain
Nature Communcations 14, 222 (2023)