Announcements of Opportunity
SURF: Announcements of Opportunity
Below are Announcements of Opportunity posted by Caltech faculty and JPL technical staff for the SURF program. Each AO indicates whether or not it is open to non-Caltech students. If an AO is NOT open to non-Caltech students, please DO NOT contact the mentor. Announcements of Opportunity are posted as they are received. Please check back regularly for new AO submissions!
Remember: This is just one way that you can go about identifying a suitable project and/or mentor. Click here for more tips on finding a mentor. Announcements for external summer programs are listed here.
*Students applying for JPL projects should complete a SURF@JPL application instead of a "regular" SURF application.
*Students pursuing opportunities at JPL must be U.S. citizens or U.S. permanent residents.
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Project: | Label-Free, Super-Resolution, Chemical Imaging Using Entangled Stokes and Anti-Stokes Photons | ||||||||
Disciplines: | Physics, Electrical Enginering, Chemistry | ||||||||
Mentor: |
Xueyu Song,
Professor, (PMA),
xsong@iastate.edu, |
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Mentor URL: | https://faculty.sites.iastate.edu/xsong/ (opens in new window) | ||||||||
Background: |
NOTE: This project is being offered by a Caltech alum and is open only to Caltech students. The project will take place at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. The project is to provide proof-of-principle results for the development of a transformative, universally applicable, method of super-resolution imaging capable of measuring the positions of molecules separated by distances of 10 nanometers or less. Our method is nondestructive, probes the chemical properties of molecules, and exploits the properties of photons that are entangled. We address the problem as one of quantum estimation and rely upon two-photon interference of quantum mechanically entangled Stokes and anti-Stokes photons. It extends to any substance having a Raman-active, high-frequency (>1000 cm^-1) vibrational mode. |
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Description: | Depending on student’s interest, they could work on the quantum estimation problem as a theoretical project or do the measurements using the entangled photons experimentally. | ||||||||
References: | K. Santra, V. Nguyen, E. A. Smith, J. W. Petrich and X. Song, Localization of nonblinking point-sources using higher-order-mode detection and optical heterodyning: Developing a strategy for extending the scope of molecular, super-resolution imaging, J. Phys. Chem. B, 125,3092( 2021). | ||||||||
Student Requirements: | Solid background in quantum mechanics | ||||||||
Programs: |
This AO can be done under the following programs:
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