Kobus Kuipers' lab develops and applies near-field optical microscopy to study nanophotonic phenomena with sub-wavelength spatial resolution. Research: (1) near-field imaging of topological photonic states (topological edge and interface modes in photonic crystals); (2) near-field microscopy of plasmonics and nanophotonics; (3) visualizing light transport at the nanoscale. Borderline for quantum sensing but directly relevant to nanophotonic quantum sensing platforms.
Kukura invented mass photometry, a label-free interferometric-scattering microscopy technique that mass-images single biomolecules in solution with precision rivalling native mass spectrometry; his group continues to expand the technique's hardware, analysis (including deep learning) and range of biomolecular applications, in close collaboration with Justin Benesch.
Prof. Kumar's group spans classical and quantum optics across three inter-related areas: (1) Quantum Fiber Optics — generation and distribution of entanglement (photon-pair, multi-photon) over fiber networks, quantum key distribution, and first-ever quantum teleportation over active internet-carrying fiber; (2) Nonlinear Quantum Optics — squeezed light and twin-beam (two-mode squeezed) state generation via fiber-based four-wave mixing and χ⁽²⁾ processes, with applications to sub-shot-noise interferometry, quantum-enhanced imaging, and quantum communication; (3) Photon-entanglement-enhanced precision measurement and optical communications. AT&T Professor of Information Technology; INQUIRE Executive Committee member.
Kuncic works across medical physics and nanoscale systems: nanoparticle-enhanced radiotherapy and dosimetry (where high-Z nanoparticles act as local dose amplifiers and the physics question is energy deposition at nanometre scales), nanoparticle contrast agents and theranostics, and — separately — neuromorphic nanowire networks as physical computing substrates. The medical-physics thread is the relevant one here: it is about quantifying and imaging what a nanoscale probe does inside tissue. Positioned against the established body of NV-ensemble quantum sensing work — DEER, nanoscale NMR and T1 relaxometry protocols operating at pT/sqrt(Hz) field sensitivity — the nanoparticle-in-tissue problem she works on is the same delivery-and-quantification problem that determines whether an in-cell nanodiamond sensor operating near the pT/sqrt(Hz) regime reports anything biologically meaningful. Borderline inclusion; a candidate would be bringing quantum sensing to her, not the reverse.
Kuo develops and deploys TES bolometer arrays and SQUID-multiplexed readout electronics for cosmic microwave background polarization experiments (BICEP/Keck, South Pole Telescope, CMB-S4), pairing quantum-limited cryogenic sensor design with cosmology to search for inflationary gravitational-wave signatures.
Kurz studies the neurophysiology of movement and gait, especially in cerebral palsy, combining MEG/OPM-MEG with biomechanics to guide rehabilitation. The work complements NV-center diamond ensemble quantum sensing (DEER, NMR, T1 relaxometry) at pT/sqrt(Hz) sensitivity by pursuing the same field-sensing goals in a different physical platform.
Pioneer of experimental quantum optics with entangled and hyper-entangled photons; research spans quantum information processing, quantum communication, quantum-enhanced metrology and sensing, and fundamental tests of quantum mechanics using single- and entangled-photon sources.
Labyt led development of metastable helium-4 OPMs at CEA-Leti and co-founded Mag4Health to commercialise room-temperature 4He OPM-MEG with large dynamic range and native 3D vector output. This vapour-phase approach reaches femto-to-picotesla sensitivities complementary to NV-center diamond ensemble quantum sensors (DEER, nano-NMR, T1 relaxometry) that operate near the pT/sqrt(Hz) regime.
Ladame develops biosensors and molecular diagnostic assays that detect cell-free circulating nucleic acid biomarkers (DNA/RNA) directly, without enzymatic amplification, for applications in early disease diagnosis and monitoring.
Lagrange is a leading figure in direct-imaging exoplanet science, using the VLT/SPHERE extreme-adaptive-optics coronagraph (which she helped design and exploit) to detect and characterize young giant planets around nearby stars, most notably the beta Pictoris planetary system, and to study debris-disk and planet-formation signatures such as non-common-path aberration correction algorithms for next-generation direct-imaging instruments.