Institute for Quantum Computing
Born on the 11th of December 1975, in Courbevoie, France.
University of Waterloo
200, University Avenue West
Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1
CANADA
Contact :
Lab : 00 1 519 888 4567 ext 5468
Office : 00 1 519 888 4567 ext 5468
Fax : 00 1 519 888 4567 ext 7610
E-mail :
ccouteau@iqc.ca
French Citizen.
Married, 3 children.
EDUCATION
2002-2005 :
PhD with honors in Physical Sciences, University of Paris XI-Orsay.
1999-2000 :
Master of Physical Sciences, with Honours, University of Paris XI-Orsay.
Specialisation ‘Lasers and Matter’.
1994-1999 :
Undergraduate Studies with Honours.
Faculty of Physics, University of Paris XI-Orsay.
1994 :
Baccalauréat, Major in mathemathics.
Lycée Bernard Palissy, Gien, France.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
Stays longer than 3 months :
2006-:
Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, Canada.
Post-Doctorate Fellow with Prof Gregor Weihs .
2002-2005 :
Laboratoire de Spectrométrie Physique, University of Grenoble, France.
PhD Degree under Dr Jean-Philippe Poizat.
Subject :
Photon Correlations with Semiconductors Quantum Dots applied for the realisation of Quantum Logic Gates.
2000-2002 :
Centre for Quantum Computation, Oxford University, UK.
Graduate Studies under Dr Dirk Bouwmeester and Pr John Rarity.
Subject :
Production of a bright source of polarization entangled photons (20 months).
Work done under the French National Service.
2000- :
Institut d’Optique Théorique et Appliquée (IOTA), University of Orsay, France.
Graduate studies under Dr Jean-Philippe Poizat.
Subject :
Development and Optimisation of a Pulsed Laser Source (3 months).
1999- :
Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratories, Stanford University, USA.
Undergraduate studies under Pr C.W.Francis Everitt and Dr Rodney Torii, STEP Program.
Subject :
Design and characterisation of a superconducting flux transformer (3 months).
Other Stays :
2004- :
Quantum Information Technology Lab, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Invited Visitor, with Prof Antia Lamas-Linares and Prof Christian Kurtsiefer.
Subject :
Set-up of a doubled Ti-Sapphire laser for Nonlinear Optics experiments (1 month).
1998- :
Laboratory of Ionic and Atomic Spectroscopy (LSAI), University of Orsay.
Undergraduate studies under Dr Annie Klisnick.
Subject :
Characterication and optimisation of an X-Laser source at 14 nm (2 months).
Teaching :
1999/2000 :
Examiner in Physics in a french high school, at Lycee Carnot in Paris, for the students who
prepare for the entrance exam to the Grandes Ecoles.
Lycée Carnot, Paris, France.
Conferences :
September 2004 :
JMC9, Nancy (France).
Production of Single Photons with Quantum Dots (Talk).
September 2003 :
COLOQ8, Toulouse (France).
II-VI Quantum Dots as sources of Single Photons (Poster).
April 2001 :
QUICK Conference, Cargèse (France).
Production of a bright source of entangled photons in polarization (Poster).
October 2000 :
Mini-Symposium Rank Prize, Applications of Fast, Low-Level
Light Detection - Grasmere (UK).
Twin photon production by quasi-phase matching (Talk).
Publications
Towards a high efficiency electrically-injected source of single photons for quantum cryptography.
S. Olivier, L. Grenouillet, S. Moehl, K. Kheng, J.M. Gérard, C. Couteau, J.P. Poizat, and A. Lemaître.
Submitted to ECIO 2005.
Geometric Phase of Dicke States of Excitons in N coupled Quantum Dots.
D.M. Tong, L.C. Kwek, C. Couteau, and C.H. Oh.
Mod. Phys. Lett. B 18(28-29)1433.
Correlated Photon Emission from a II-VI Quantum Dot.
C. Couteau, S. Moehl, F. Tinjod, J.M. Gérard, K. Kheng, H. Mariette, J.A. Gaj, R. Romestain,
and J.P. Poizat.
Appl. Phys. Lett. 85 (25) 6251.
Spin relaxation dynamics in single Quantum Dot.
I. Favero, G. Cassabois, C. Voisin, C. Delalande, Ph. Roussignol, R. Ferreira, C. Couteau, J.P. Poizat,
and J.M. Gérard.
Accepted to Phys. Rev. B .
Photon Correlations and Cross-Correlations from a Single CdTe/ZnTe Quantum Dot.
C. Couteau, S. Moehl, J. Suffczynski, J.A. Gaj, F. Tinjod, J.M. Gérard, K. Kheng, H. Mariette, R. Romestain
and J.P. Poizat.
Acta Physica Polonica A 106 (2) 169.
Boîtes Quantiques II-VI comme sources de photons uniques.
C. Couteau, S. Moehl, F. Tinjod, J. Suffczynski, R. Romestain, J.C. Vial, J.M. Gérard, K. Kheng,
and J.P. Poizat.
J. Phys. IV France 119 (2004) 165.
LANGUAGES
-French : Native Speaker.
-English : Fluent.
-German : Beginner.
Computer Languages :
-Matlab, Labview, Mathematica, HTML.
PERSONAL INTERESTS
Sports and leasure :
Football, philately, movie enthusiast, impressionist and 18th century English painters enthusiast.
Student Involvment:
1997-1999 : Member of the non-profit-making organization PHOTON, Fundamental Physics student commitee of Paris XI.
Personal Website :
www.lescouteau.co.uk