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Joshua Bienfang (Fed)

Research interests:

  • Quantum communications
  • Single-photon detectors
  • Sources of entanglement
  • Quantum metrology

Biographical sketch:

Dr. Joshua C. Bienfang is a physicist in the Quantum Optics group in the Quantum Measurement Division of the Physical Measurement Laboratory. Before coming to NIST in 2002, Dr. Bienfang held a post-doctoral position at the Air Force Research Laboratory, at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico building high-power lasers for adaptive optics systems.

Awards and honors:

  • R&D 100 Award for High-Speed Fiber Quantum Key Distribution System, 2007
  • Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, 2006
  • US Department of Commerce Bronze Medal for Superior Federal Service, 2005
  • University of New Mexico Tom L. Popejoy Dissertation Prize, 2003

Professional Activities:

  • CLEO/QELS subcommittee for Quantum Information, 2008
  • CLEO/QELS subcommittee for Enabling Technologies for Quantum Information, 2006

Selected Publications

Publications

Single-photon Sources and Detectors Dictionary

Author(s)
Joshua Bienfang, Thomas Gerrits, Paulina Kuo, Alan Migdall, Sergey Polyakov, Oliver T. Slattery
The intention of this dictionary is to define relevant terms and metrics used in the characterization of single-photon detectors and sources with the goal to

Studies of spatial uniformity and jitter in SiC UV SPADs

Author(s)
Joshua Bienfang, Edwin J. Heilweil, Anand Sampath, Gregory Garrett, Jonathan Shuster, Jeremy Smith, Michael Derenge, Daniel Habersat, Reza Gandhi, Sergei Dolinsky, Enrico Bellotti, michael wrabeck
Ultraviolet single-photon avalanche detectors (UV-SPAD) that are low cost, size, weight, and power as well as resilient to shock, high temperatures and stray

Demonstration that Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Steering Requires More than One Bit of Faster-than-Light Information Transmission

Author(s)
Yu Xiang, Michael Mazurek, Joshua Bienfang, Michael Wayne, Carlos Abellan, Waldimar Amaya, Morgan Mitchell, Richard Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Qiongyi He, Marty Stevens, Krister Shalm, Howard Wiseman
Schrödinger held that a local quantum system has some objectively real quantum state and no other (hidden) properties. He therefore took the Einstein-Podolsky

Patents (2018-Present)

Temporal Jitter Analyzer And Analyzing Temporal Jitter

NIST Inventors
Joshua Bienfang
A temporal jitter analyzer analyzes temporal jitter and includes: a time delay controller; a time delay member; a delay measurement circuit; an edge generator in communication with the time delay member and that receives the delayed primary signal from the time delay member and produces a reference
Created May 31, 2018, Updated December 8, 2022