Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize

Picture of  Christine Silberhorn

Award year: 2008

Category: Award / Honour

Type: Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize

Awarding organization: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

Christine Silberhorn’s research focuses on the special properties of light and their application in quantum communication – the transfer of information by sending individual photons through the air or through glass fibres. She places particular emphasis on generating nonclassical light using special waveguide structures and their application in linear optical quantum networks and the characterisation of quantum states using photon number statistics.

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