The 22nd episode of the Electrical Engineering podcast "Current Affairs" is the first episode in English. In it, our new podcast host Dr. Tanuj Hasija talks to Prof. Dr. Sina Saravi about his research topic: the modelling and design of photonic quantum systems.
Dr Tanuj Hasija works as an academic advisor at Paderborn University and researches signal and system theories. Prof Dr Sina Saravi moved to Paderborn University about a year ago from Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, where he studied and worked.
Here, Prof Dr Sina Saravi is working on photonic quantum systems. He explains in the podcast that there are several quantum systems, all of which have different advantages and disadvantages. There are solutions with very cold solids, which have already received a lot of media attention, and those with light, which are less well known. In simple terms, one can say that many light particles are used, which are called photons - hence the name. Part of the research then involves generating suitable photons and equipping them with information, so to speak, processing them and finally detecting them again. Prof Dr Sina Saravi and his group are focusing in particular on the generation of photons and are thus making a significant contribution to the development of such quantum systems, which form the basis for the construction of quantum computers. In the future, these could be used alongside conventional computers for particularly computationally intensive tasks such as simulations, says Prof Dr Sina Saravi.
"We will really be at the forefront not only of science, but also of real-life applications today [and especially tomorrow]," he says, summarising the particular appeal of his research topic.
In this episode, Prof Dr Sina Saravi explains exactly how a photonic quantum system works and the advantages and disadvantages of the various systems.
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