The Griffith University Program of the Centre operates on the Nathan Campus out of a number
of academic offices and postgraduate rooms. These are equipped with late-model PC and MAC computers used for numerical simulations. Intensive calculations are supported by links to the Queensland Parallel Supercomputing facility located in the same building as most of the staff.
The group members share ideas with each other and visiting scientists at formal and informal seminars and workshops held in centrally allocated venues. A digital whiteboard device enables downloading of group discussion notes into electronic format.
The Quantum Optics and Information Laboratory at Griffith University is an 80 square metre space which is temperature-controlled, vibrationdamped, and optimised for low-light quantum
optics experiments. The lab is equipped with a high-power (2.7 W average power) femtosecond laser and two 60 mW violet diode lasers, resting on high-performance vibrationisolated optical tables, including a state-ofthe-art, actively stabilized, “SmartTable.” The laboratory is equipped with a number of single photon detectors, multiple nonlinear crystals for generating single photon pairs, custom designed optics, and computer-controlled motion stages for setting the position of optical elements with very high precision. In 2008, additional laser and interferometric facilities
were added, along with additional photon detectors and counting electronics. |