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Oliver T. Slattery (Fed)

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Oliver Slattery has worked as a physicist at NIST since 1998. He holds B.Sc. (Hons), M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics (Department of Physics and Energy) from the University of Limerick (UL) in Ireland and a M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering (Photonics Specialty, Applied Physics Laboratory) from the Johns Hopkins University in Maryland.

Upon arriving at NIST, he worked primarily on the NIST Rotating Wheel Braille Display and Tactile Display project and was part of the team that won a 2001 R&D 100 award and 2003 Department of Commerce (DoC) bronze medal for that project. The DoC bronze medal is the highest award NIST offers to its staff. 

From 2001 to 2006, he was involved in the Data Preservation Project in the Digital Media Group, during which time he served as Chair of the DVD Compatibility Committee at the Optical Storage Technology Association and as Chair of the Government Information Preservation Working Group.

In 2006, Dr. Slattery joined NIST's Quantum Communications Project in the Information Technology Laboratory (ITL). He is currently involved in single-photon research and development for quantum communication applications. He was part of the team that won a DoC bronze medal in 2015 for the development of single-photon frequency conversion systems. In 2018, Dr. Slattery was appointed leader of the Quantum Communications Project

Documents: 
Slattery CV 2024.

Publications

Single-photon Sources and Detectors Dictionary

Author(s)
Joshua Bienfang, Thomas Gerrits, Paulina Kuo, Alan Migdall, Sergey Polyakov, Oliver 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

Disseminable single-photon source for quantum radiometry

Author(s)
Hristina Georgieva, Thomas Gerrits, Lijun Ma, Riley Dawkins, Marco Lopez, Oliver Slattery, Sven Rodt, Stephan Reitzenstein, Alan Migdall, Stefan Kueck
We present a disseminable single-photon source based on an InGaAs quantum dot in a micro-mesa. This source achieves a maximum photon flux of 2.8 million photons

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

Data and Software Publications

Patents (2018-Present)

Experminetal system configuration for Ultra-High Spectral Resolution Spectrometer Based on Electromagnetically-Induced Transparency

Direct Absolute Spectrometer for Direct Absolute Spectrometry

NIST Inventors
Lijun Ma , Xiao Tang and Oliver T. Slattery
A direct absolute spectrometer includes: a first light source; a second light source; an optical combiner that produces dual light; an optical cell that receives the dual light; an electromagnetically induced transparent medium that is optically transparent to single photon light in a presence of
Created October 9, 2019, Updated April 3, 2024
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