Archive for September, 2009



New paper

I have a new paper on the arXiv entitled, Optimised generation of heralded Fock states using parametric down conversion, in which we characterise the effects of spectral entanglement and higher order photon-number contributions on the generation of pure photon number states using PDC. Beware, it’s looooong, but it has lots of pretty pictures toward the […]

Caring for your introvert

I just stumbled across this really cute article about being an introvert, or more specifically, dealing with an introvert. A great deal of it really resonated with me. Without giving it much though, I would have considered myself an extrovert. I tend to be quite social, however, the needs and situations described in this article […]