{"id":18206,"date":"2018-12-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.inrs.ca\/christian-reimer-rising-star-in-optics-research\/"},"modified":"2020-11-03T15:40:51","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T20:40:51","slug":"christian-reimer-rising-star-in-optics-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.inrs.ca\/en\/news\/christian-reimer-rising-star-in-optics-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Reimer, rising star in optics research"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"single_entry_text\">\n<p><style type=\"text\/css\">\ndiv,\n.single_entry_text p,\n.single_entry_text li{\n    font-size: 14px !important;\n    line-height: 18px !important;\n}<\/style>\n<\/p>\n<div><strong>The Vanier Canada Graduate Scholar, who authored 16 scientific publications and 6 patent applications during his doctoral studies, receives the 2018 CAGS\/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/actualites-images\/Christian-Reimer-Portrait-Chercheur-INRS.png\" style=\"width: 290px; height: 435px; float: left;padding-bottom:10px; padding-right:10px; margin-top:3px;\"\/>Christian Reimer\u2019s doctoral dissertation is unlikely to be filed away and forgotten. It has been selected as the year\u2019s best in engineering, medical sciences, and natural sciences by the <a href=\"https:\/\/cags.ca\/prizes-cags-proquest-distinguished-dissertation-awards\/2018-dda-winner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Canadian Association for Graduate Studies<\/a> for its description of how and why the use of photons (light particles) on optical chips can become one of the key technologies for optical quantum computing and encrypted communications. Currently pursuing a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University, the INRS graduate looks back on an academic journey marked by teamwork, perseverance, and a bit of luck.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Quantum optics is a rather obscure field to most people, who tend to frown and recoil at the mere mention of the subject. \u201cIn fact, it\u2019s a highly developed and well-funded field that has attracted research groups around the world,\u201d says Christian. And there is good reason for all the tumult: in the race to create quantum computers, photons are the only quantum information carriers that can be transmitted in network. Whatever form quantum computers will take, they will need quantum optics to carry and transmit quantum data.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"background:#f2f2f2; padding:15px 10px; float:right; width:274px;height:auto;margin:0px 0px 10px 10px;font-size:16px !important;line-height:21px !important;border-top:solid 4px #584b94;\">Do not work alone! You must discuss your projects and challenges with your colleagues and collaborators. <strong>Associate yourself in\u00a0a team that gives you support.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\u201cI became fascinated with optics and photonics during my master\u2019s degree, because these disciplines open up versatile possibilities that are very exciting to me,\u201d he continues. He was studying physics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany when he first began exploring the science of light. \u201cWhat\u2019s unique to optics and photonics is that you can design experiments very quickly to test out your ideas. That\u2019s one of the things I really love.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Optics describes how light behaves, while integrated photonics is the study of light signals and their control on optical chip. INRS professor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dev.inrs.ca\/roberto-morandotti\">Roberto Morandotti<\/a> is a leading expert in the field. \u201cI knew Professor Morandotti\u2019s work. He\u2019s very well known in the field,\u201d says Christian. \u201cI met one of his students, who told me about the INRS lab and life in Montreal. The idea of doing high-impact scientific work with Morandotti\u2019s team and all the things his former student described convinced me to give it a shot.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>With a prestigious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanier.gc.ca\/en\/home-accueil.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship<\/a> in hand, he joined Professor Morandotti\u2019s lab in 2012. But during the first year of his PhD, Christian\u2019s determination was really put to the test. The experimental setup he planned to use for his studies in quantum optics wouldn\u2019t work, it wouldn\u2019t register any signals. Through trial and error and insight from the rest of the team, he managed to conduct his first successful experiments. He laboured away for two more years before finding a way to create quantum correlations between two photons, a step that was foundational for the rest of the project.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Christian was already beginning to have an impact through his publications. His work appeared in leading journals, including <em>Nature<\/em>, <em>Science<\/em>, <em>Nature Photonics<\/em>, <em>Nature Physics<\/em>, <em>Nature Communications<\/em>, and <em>Optics Express<\/em>, and resulted in six patent applications. Christian says he owes his success to \u201ca combination of tenacity, hard work, an incredible team, and good bit of luck. The project was ambitious and difficult, and it could easily have led to a less successful outcome. But the team\u2019s determination and dedication and Prof. Morandotti\u2019s willingness to invest in the project really made a difference.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Based on his experience, Christian\u2019s advice to future doctoral candidates is this: \u201cDon\u2019t work alone! You have to discuss your projects and challenges with colleagues and collaborators. Be part of a supportive team, and don\u2019t overdo it. Take breaks. It took me a while to realize that taking a few days off to free up my mind to come up with new ideas and more energy was more productive than doubling down trying to force solutions.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Now he is applying these principles to his work in a research group at Harvard, specializing in the nanofabrication of complex materials. As fascinated as ever by photonics, nonlinear optics, and quantum optics, he is working one new integrated photonics platforms that can enable novel functionalities for the next generation of optical networks and quantum photonics.\u00a0\u2666<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vanier Canada Graduate Scholar, who authored 16 scientific publications and 6 patent applications during his doctoral studies, receives the 2018 CAGS\/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"sectors":[],"class_list":["post-18206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-innover-a-linrs-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.6 (Yoast SEO v24.6) - 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