- Toronto, Canada
- Senior
- CA$130K–CA$180K per year
- 4+ years
Design, develop, and experimentally validate cutting‑edge photonic systems for integrated homodyne detection.
Compensation
The base salary range is 130,000 - 180,000 CAD.
Responsibilities
- Design, build and upgrade complex optical laboratory experiments to characterize photonic integrated chips
- Characterize and benchmark integrated balanced homodyne detectors for pulsed signals
- Design and build new characterization strategies as needed
- Measure figures of merit including detection efficiency, noise clearance, effective bandwidth, common‑mode rejection, cross‑talk
- Benchmark and drive further development of signal processing techniques for pulsed homodyne detection and tomography
Requirements
- Ph.D. in Quantum Optics, Photonics, AMO, Electrical Engineering or a closely related field
- Nice to have: quantum computing
- Nice to have: thin‑film lithium niobate modulators
- Nice to have: waveguide‑integrated photodiodes
- Nice to have: advanced quantum optics