Nicolas Godbout, École Polytechnique de Montréal
QuantumWorks Researcher
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Nicolas Godbout received his Ph.D. in Engineering Physics from École Polytechnique de Montréal in 2000 on second-order nonlinear optical effects in glasses and optical fibres. He joined ITF Optical Technologies Inc. for two and a half years as lead optical designer of fibre optical components, mainly for telecommunication applications. His main areas of expertise include nonlinear optics, optical devices and system engineering. He became interested in quantum cryptography in 2002, at which time he obtained a part-time Adjunct Professor position at Polytechnique and co-directed a project which led to the first experimental optical fibre-based quantum cryptography setup in Canada. In 2003, he left ITF for a full-time Professor position at Polytechnique. His main research interests now include experimental optical quantum cryptography and processing. His group made experimental progress on multi-user quantum cryptography networks, components for photon-level optical functions, generation of entangled photons and control of photon orbital angular momentum, all this directly in optical fibres. In addition, his group now works on few qubit computing in optical fibres using the cluster-state model.