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Paulina Kuo (Fed)

Paulina Kuo is a member of the Computing and Communications Theory group in the Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) at NIST. Her research is in experimental quantum information and communications. The focus is primarily on applications of photonic qubits, such as entangled photon pair sources, and quantum frequency conversion and quantum interconnects.

Dr. Kuo received S.B. degrees in physics and materials science in 2000 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and M.S. (2002) and Ph.D. (2008) degrees in applied physics from Stanford University.

She came to NIST in 2008 as a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow and worked as research associate in the NIST Physical Measurement Laboratory. Between 2010 and 2013, she held a joint appointment with the Joint Quantum Institute at the University of Maryland. Since 2011, she has been at NIST in ITL working on quantum optics, single photon sources and detectors.

Dr. Kuo is a member of Optica/OSA, APS and SPIE.

Opportunities for research in quantum frequency conversion and other quantum communications topics are available through the National Research Council Research Associateship Program (NRC RAP). US citizens interested in applying to my NRC RAP postdoctoral opportunity are encouraged to contact me via email.

Publications

Clock synchronization characterization of the Washington DC metropolitan quantum network (DC-QNet)

Author(s)
Wayne McKenzie, Anne Marie Richards, Shirali Patel, Thomas Gerrits, T. G., Steven Peil, Adam Black, David Tulchinsky, Alexander Hastings, YaShian Li-Baboud, Anouar Rahmouni, Paulina Kuo, Alan Mink, Ivan Burenkov, Yicheng Shi, Matthew Diaz, Nijil Lal Cheriya Koyyottummal, Mheni Merzouki, Pranish Shrestha, Alejandro Rodriguez Perez, Eleanya Onuma, Daniel Jones, Atiyya Davis, Thomas A. Searles, J.D. Whalen, Kate Collins, Qudsia Quraishi, La Vida Cooper, Harry Shaw, Bruce Crabill, Oliver Slattery, Abdella Battou
Quantum networking protocols relying on interference and precise time-of-flight measurements require high-precision clock synchronization. This study describes

100-km entanglement distribution with coexisting quantum and classical signals in a single fiber

Author(s)
Anouar Rahmouni, Paulina Kuo, Ya-Shian Li-Baboud, Ivan Burenkov, Yicheng Shi, Jabir Marakkarakath Vadakkepurayil, Nijil Lal Cheriya Koyyottummal, Dileep Reddy, Mheni Merzouki, Lijun Ma, Abdella Battou, Sergey Polyakov, Oliver T. Slattery, Thomas Gerrits
The development of prototype metropolitan-scale quantum networks is underway and entails transmitting quantum information via single photons through deployed

Synchronized source of indistinguishable photons for quantum networks

Author(s)
Nijil Lal Cheriya Koyyottummal, Ivan Burenkov, Ya-Shian Li-Baboud, Jabir Marakkarakath Vadakkepurayil, Paulina Kuo, Thomas Gerrits, Oliver T. Slattery, Sergey Polyakov
We present a source of indistinguishable photons at telecom wavelength, synchronized to an external clock, for the use in distributed quantum networks. We
Created October 9, 2019, Updated December 8, 2022