Project Partners of HyperSpace
HyperSpace is a joined EU-CAN project
HyperSpace is a joined project of 8 international research institutes and universities. Leading institute is the Fraunhofer-Institute of Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF in Jena, Germany. HyperSpace is co-funded by the European Union with Fraunhofer IOF as principal point of contact and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada NSERC with INRS as principal point of contact.
Project Partners: click on the Institute and find out more about their involvement.
Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF
Ranging from array projectors in the automotive sector to 3D real-time scanners in production and quantum technologies for tap-proof communication, the Fraunhofer – Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF develops innovative solutions with light for a wide variety of applications. To cover the entire photonic process chain, we use our comprehensive competencies in the areas of optical and mechanical system design, micro- and nanostructured optics, opto-mechatronical as well as precision optical components and systems, functional surfaces and coatings, laser and fiber technology, imaging and sensing technology, and future technologies, such as optical quantum technologies. Innovative solutions arise that open up new fields of application for photonics in science and industry. As part of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, our research is based on a passion for taking on significant challenges and breaking new ground.
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Centre Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications
Funded in 1969, the Institut national de la recherche scientifique- Centre Energie, Matériaux, et Télécommunications (INRS-EMT, Quebec) has two centers. One center is in Varennes and focuses on energy and material sciences, the other center is in Montreal and focuses on telecommunications. The institute is ranked among the first in Quebec and Canada for research intensity and technology, hosting world-class laboratories with unique equipment for advanced research in quantum photonics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, wireless communications, advanced laser light source, renewable energy, material science, micro-nano fabrication, etc. INRS has more than 40 professors, as well as more than 60 industrial partners in the photonics, telecommunication, artificial intelligence, and quantum sectors, and hosts 16 research infrastructures at the core of the Research & Development. INRS hosts six Canadian Research Chairs, such as in Smart Photonics. INRS significantly invests on the training of both national and international MSc, PhD, and postdoctoral fellows.
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Yoann Jestin received his PhD in solid state chemistry from the “Université du Maine” (France) in 2002. In 2003 he joined the research center on laser and application at the University of Lille and then the CNR-IFN (Trento, Italy) as a postdoctoral fellow. Since 2013, he has been Research Associate at INRS-EMT. In 2015, he founded Ki3 Photonics Technologies, an INRS startup focusing on the development of quantum secure networks.
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CEA-LETI
CEA-LETI is a technology research institute, expert in micro and nanotechnologies for a wide range of application fields such as healthcare, energy, transport, information and communication technologies.
CEA-Leti has more than 15 years expertise in developing silicon photonic components and circuits for telecom/datacom high-speed optical interconnects. CEA-LETI expertise includes photonic component design, fabrication technology and optical characterization. CEA-LETI is equipped with 11,000m² world-class pre-industrialization clean rooms for the process of 200 and 300 mm SOI wafers. Wafer-level tests of the fabricated components and circuits are performed using fast automatic probers
CEA-LETI mature silicon and silicon nitride photonic platforms provide a reliable basis for the development of key quantum photonics components for quantum encryption applications. In HYPERSPACE, CEA-Leti, in collaboration with partners, will focus on the development of advanced integrated quantum source circuits on silicon and silicon nitride, either delivering entangled photons pairs at GHz generation rate, or delivering hyper-entangled photon pairs.
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After her master degree at University of Pavia in condensed matter physics and one year of internship at the Silicon Photonics Lab of CEA-LETI in 2021-2022, Sara Congia is now doing a joint PhD program between CEA-LETI and the Quantum Photonics Laboratory of University of Pavia. “Since I have always been interested in experimental and applied physics, I am very happy to do my PhD between academic and applied research, developing integrated photonic components and circuits to make fully-on-chip quantum demonstrations.”
MERQURY-CYBERSECURITY
Merqury Cybersecurity Ltd is a company born out of the need for the provision of quantum safe solutions in Malta and Europe. Merqury is technical lead for the Maltese EuroQCI national project (PRISM).
Through the PRISM project, Merqury is developing all the necessary tools needed to deploy and manage a quantum network of more than 15 nodes. All developed software is vendor-agnostic and source available. Zero trust systems are always the ideal we aim for.
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Byron holds a first degree in Mathematics and Physics from the University of Malta. Over the next decade, he gained expertise as a quantitative trader at a hedge fund specializing in automated trading of derivatives and portfolio risk management. In 2021, he earned his M.Sc. in Statistics and Financial Mathematics from the University of Sheffield. His journey continued at Merqury in 2023, where he contributes to global-scale satellite-based quantum communication.
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Atomic Institute of Technical University Vienna
The Atominstitut of the TU Wien has a long tradition in basic science, dating back to the first foundational experiments by Helmuth Rauch and Anton Zeilinger. Today it hosts an exciting mix of experimental and theoretical investigations into the foundations of physics, from high-energy, nuclear, low-temperature to its current particular focus on quantum technologies. Connected to the Viennese quantum science community via the Vienna Center for Quantum Technology (VCQ), the Austrian Excellence Cluster (QuantA) and co-appointments with the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
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Alexandra Bergmayr is a mathematician, working on high-dimensional cryptography protocols.
Matej Pivoluska is a senior postdoc and longtime project leader based between informatics and and physics. With a long-standing experience in experimental collaborations, he serves as an interface of theoretical computer science and experiments conducted in HYPERSPACE.
The University of Padova (UPD)
The University of Padova (UPD) is one of the oldest universities in the World and one of the leading Universities in Italy with a long tradition and consolidated reputation for scientific excellence. The QuantumFuture Research group involved in the present proposal (including Prof. Giuseppe Vallone, Prof. Paolo Villloresi and Dr. Francesco Vedovato) pioneered researches in quantum communications in Space, as the first single photon exchange in 2008, the first QKD along a space channel in 2015, the interference at the single photon level in a Space channel in 2016 by using the time-bin encoding, the exchange with a MEO satellite 7000 km apart from Earth 2016. The Group has strong expertise in quantum information, quantum optics, quantum cryptography, quantum communications, quantum random number generation, network security and information theoretic security.
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Professor of Physics (Professore Ordinario) at UPD, in the Department of Information Engineering. He served as coordinator in several national and international research projects, including the area of high order harmonics generation, space quantum communication, application of laser in Medicine and Industry.
He led the project for the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to design a space terminal for quantum communications, to be mounted in the International Space Station (ISS). He is also the Group Leader of the QuantumFuture research group, which is active in Quantum Information and Communications. According to Google Scholar he has >11900 citations and his h-index is 52.
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Department of Industrial and Information Engineering at University of Pavia
The unit at UNIPV has been carrying out both theoretical and experimental research activities in integrated quantum photonic technologies for more than a decade, with particular emphasis on the practical aspects of quantum information processing. These activities have resulted over the years in the demonstration of several integrated devices for the implementation of quantum algorithms, including one of the earliest demonstrations of the emission of entangled photons from a silicon ring resonator, the demonstration of integrated filters and multiplexers and the ability to generate entanglement on a chip using different degrees of freedom.
On the theoretical side the unit has a long-established experience in the modelling and simulation of quantum optical devices, with a particular focus on the generation of nonclassical states of light via parametric processes. The laboratory is fully equipped for the complete characterization and quantum measurements of integrated photonic devices based on strongly confining nanostructures.
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Daniele Bajoni obtained his PhD degree in 2004 from the UNIPV. After holding a post-doc position at LPN-CNRS (FR), he obtained a position as assistant professor in experimental solid-state physics at UNIPV, where he was appointed associate professor in 2014. His research interests include strong light-matter interaction and experimental quantum photonics. He has demonstrated several devices for quantum optics integrated in silicon chips, in particular sources of entangled photon pairs.
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University of Toronto
The University of Toronto ranked first in Canada across all five of the broad subject categories evaluated in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2022 – and remained the only university in the world to rank in the top 50 for 46 specific subjects. Its Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control (CQIQC), established in 2004, is the umbrella organization for quantum technologies research at the University of Toronto. It includes 24 core faculty members and 5 associate members across multiple departments, including Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Material Science and Engineering. Profs. John Sipe (Physics) and Prof. Li Qian (Electrical & Computer Engineering) at CQIQC are experts in quantum optics and quantum communication.
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Li Qian’s research focuses on experimental quantum optics and quantum communication, utilizing fiber optics and nonlinear optics in fiber. She is known for developing fiber-based polarization entangled photon sources, which have been commercialized. She is an editor of JOSA B, and a Fellow of Optica.
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Institute for Quantum Computing at University of Waterloo
University of Waterloo is a leading global innovation hub that drives economic and social prosperity for Canada and the world. We are home to a renowned talent pipeline, and game-changing research and technology that together create solutions to tackle today’s and tomorrow’s challenges. A strategic integration of research and teaching excellence, the world’s largest co-operative education program, entrepreneurship-intensive programs, and creator-owned IP, and a dynamic learning experience for more than 41,000 undergraduate and graduate students.
The Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) is a world-leading quantum institute at the University of Waterloo. Founded in 2002, the research at IQC harnesses the quantum laws of nature to develop transformational technologies that will benefit society and drive future economies. Advancements in quantum computation, communication, sensors and materials are happening at the highest international level through the collaboration of computer scientists, engineers, mathematicians and physical scientists.
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