Dr Lucia Caspani

Senior Lecturer

Institute of Photonics

Personal statement

I received my Bachelor (2003), Master (2006) and PhD Degree (2010) in Physics from Insubria University (Como, Italy). There, I theoretically investigated the spatiotemporal structure of entanglement in second-order nonlinear media (multimode, high-gain regime), in the group led by Professor Luigi Lugiato and Dr Alessandra Gatti.

From April 2011 to May 2014 I have been a postdoctoral fellow at INRS-EMT (Varennes, Canada) in the group led by Prof. Roberto Morandotti, where I mainly worked on nonlinear and quantum integrated optics, focusing on the generation of multimode and multiphoton entanglement, as well as on the generation and detection of THz radiation.

From July 2014 to Jan 2017 I was a Marie Curie Fellow at Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh) with Prof. Daniele Faccio, performing research on the generation of entangled photon triplets, 2D-materials nonlinearity and enhanced nonlinearity in low-permittivity media.

In February 2017 I joined the Institute of Photonics at Strathclyde University, jointly with the Fraunhofer Centre for Applied Photonics, first as a research fellow in the group led by Dr Jennifer Hastie, in the framework of the Birmingham Quantum Hub on Sensors and Metrology.

Since June 2018 I am a Chancellor’s Fellow in the same institute, and I am developing my independent research group, QuaSAp (Quantum Sources and Applications), devoted to the development of compact sources of quantum states of light for quantum metrology, computing and communication.

Prizes and awards

Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship: Recipient; 1/7/2014
Emiliano Sali award: Recipient; 17/9/2012
MELS-FQRNT v2 - Merit scholarship program for foreign students: Recipient; 1/4/2012
Government of Canada Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship: Recipient; 1/4/2011
Galluzzi's award for Physics 2006: Recipient; 31/10/2010

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Publications

High-dimensional one-way quantum processing implemented on d-level cluster states: Reimer Christian, Sciara Stefania, Roztocki Piotr, Islam Mehedi, Cortés Luis Romero, Zhang Yanbing, Fischer Bennet, Loranger Sébastien, Kashyap Raman, Cino Alfonso, Chu Sai T, Little Brent E, Moss David J, Caspani Lucia, Munro William J, Azaña José, Kues Michael, Morandotti Roberto; Nature Physics Vol 15, pp. 148-153 (2019); https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-018-0347-x
Integrated sources of photon quantum states based on nonlinear optics: Caspani Lucia, Xiong Chunle, Eggleton Benjamin J, Bajoni Daniele, Liscidini Marco, Galli Matteo, Morandotti Roberto, Moss David J; Light: Science & Applications Vol 6 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1038/lsa.2017.100
Scalable and effective multi-level entangled photon states : a promising tool to boost quantum technologies: Sciara Stefania, Roztocki Piotr, Fischer Bennet, Reimer Christian, Romero Cortés Luis, Munro William J, Moss David J, Cino Alfonso C, Caspani Lucia, Kues Michael, Azaña José, Morandotti Roberto; Nanophotonics Vol 10, pp. 4447-4465 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2021-0510
Visible photon generation via four-wave mixing in near-infrared near-zero-index thin films: Carnemolla Enrico G, Jaffray Wallace, Clerici Matteo, Caspani Lucia, Faccio Daniele, Biancalana Fabio, Devault Clayton, Shalaev Vladimir M, Boltasseva Alexandra, Ferrera Marcello; Optics Letters Vol 46, pp. 5433-5436 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.433834
Induced photon correlations through the overlap of two four-wave mixing processes in integrated cavities: Zhang Yanbing, Kues Michael, Roztocki Piotr, Reimer Christian, Fischer Bennet, MacLellan Benjamin, Bisianov Arstan, Peschel Ulf, Little Brent E, Chu Sai T, Moss David J, Caspani Lucia, Morandotti Roberto; Laser and Photonics Reviews Vol 14 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1002/lpor.202000128
Two-photon quantum interference and entanglement at 2.1 μm: Prabhakar Shashi, Shields Taylor, Dada Adetunmise C, Ebrahim Mehdi, Taylor Gregor G, Morozov Dmitry, Erotokritou Kleanthis, Miki Shigehito, Yabuno Masahiro, Terai Hirotaka, Gawith Corin, Kues Michael, Caspani Lucia, Hadfield Robert H, Clerici Matteo; Science Advances Vol 6 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aay5195

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Research interests

Quantum Optics

Nonlinear Optics

Integrated Optics

Photonics

Professional activities

Integrated Photonics Research, Silicon, and Nano-Photonics 2021 (OSA Advanced Photonics Congress): Chair; 26/7/2021
Integrated Photonics Research, Silicon, and Nano-Photonics 2020 (OSA Advanced Photonics Congress): Chair; 13/7/2020
PhD viva Internal Examiner: Examiner; 7/9/2021
OSA Nonlinear Optics Topical Meeting 2021: Member of programme committee; 9/8/2021
MPhil Internal Examiner: Examiner; 7/2021
Mid-infrared two-photon interference and polarization entanglement: Contributor; 21/6/2021

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Projects

Integrated Quantum Frequency Combs for Cluster States Generation: Caspani, Lucia (Principal Investigator); 01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2024
High Quantum-Efficiency Detectors: Caspani, Lucia (Principal Investigator); 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2022
Quantum-enhanced multiphoton absorption for fluorescence imaging (Quantic Hub EOI): Caspani, Lucia (Principal Investigator); 01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2022
Strategic research for SMEs: Helping small companies to access doctoral level engineering | Dickinson, Thomas: Caspani, Lucia (Principal Investigator) Hastie, Jennifer (Co-investigator) Dickinson, Thomas (Research Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2020 - 01-Jan-2023
Fraunhofer UK Research Limited: Studentship Agreement | Dickinson, Thomas: Caspani, Lucia (Principal Investigator) Hastie, Jennifer (Co-investigator) Dickinson, Thomas (Research Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2020 - 01-Jan-2023
Heralded entangled photon pairs on-chip (RGS\R1\191426): Caspani, Lucia (Principal Investigator); 27-Jan-2019 - 26-Jan-2020

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