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Sergey Polyakov (Fed)

Dr. Sergey V. Polyakov is a physicist in the Quantum Optics group in the Quantum Measurement Division of the Physical Measurement Laboratory. Before becoming a staff member at NIST in 2013, Dr. Polyakov served as a guest researcher at NIST and JQI since 2005 and held a post-doctoral position at Caltech with H. Jeff Kimble, where he built and characterized an atomic ensemble-based quantum memory.

Research Interests

Professional Service

  • Chair of the Sub-Committee on Fundamental Science: Quantum Optics of Atoms, Molecules and Solids, CLEO/QELS, 2016, 2015-2016
  • Member of the Sub-Committee on Fundamental Science: Quantum Optics of Atoms, Molecules and Solids, CLEO/QELS, 2013-2015
  • Member of the Organization Committee, Conference Series on Quantum Foundations, Vaxjo, Sweden, 2012-2015
  • Editor of a book "Single Photon Generation and Detection Physics and Applications", 2013-2014
  • Guest co-editor of Journal of Modern Optics special issue devoted to Single Photon Workshop 2009, 2011
  • Member of the Organizing Committee, Single Photon Workshop, 2009
  • Member of Optical Society of America's Leadership Council, 2001-2002

Awards

  1. Review of Scientific Instruments' Top Downloaded Article in 2012, 2013 (Invited Review Article: Single-photon sources and detectors, M. D. Eisaman, J. Fan, A. Migdall and S. V. Polyakov, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 82, 071101 (2011))
  2. Feature researcher in "Optics and Photonics News", Vol. 13, p. 6, July, 2002
  3. New Focus Award of Optical Society of America: Grand Prize, $10000, honoring three students annually for the outstanding research in Optics, 2002
  4. CREOL/School Of Optics' Student of the Year 2002 and a Finalist's award in 2001
  5. Order of Pegasus of UCF, honoring one or two graduate students and eight undergraduate students a year out of the population of about 35,000 for excellence in academics, leadership and service, 2002
  6. Three Soros Student and Soros Graduate Student awards, International Soros Science Education Program 1995, 1997 and 1998
  7. Academician Vernov's honor stipend, honoring one student a year out of about 1500 students at Physics Faculty, Moscow State University for excellence in academics and research, 1997
  8. Moscow Mayor's honor stipend, 1996

Publications

Phase stabilization with single photon detection for quantum networks

Author(s)
Jabir Marakkarakath Vadakkepurayil, Daehyun Ahn, FNU Nur Fajar Rizqi Annafianto, Ivan Burenkov, Abdella Battou, Sergey Polyakov
Maintaining stable phases in interferometric systems and optical links is pivotal for the functionality of diverse quantum communication protocols. However

100-km entanglement distribution with coexisting quantum and classical signals in a single fiber

Author(s)
Anouar Rahmouni, Paulina Kuo, Ya-Shian Li-Baboud, Ivan Burenkov, Yicheng Shi, Jabir Marakkarakath Vadakkepurayil, Nijil Lal Cheriya Koyyottummal, Dileep Reddy, Mheni Merzouki, Lijun Ma, Abdella Battou, Sergey Polyakov, Oliver T. Slattery, Thomas Gerrits
The development of prototype metropolitan-scale quantum networks is underway and entails transmitting quantum information via single photons through deployed

Synchronized source of indistinguishable photons for quantum networks

Author(s)
Nijil Lal Cheriya Koyyottummal, Ivan Burenkov, Ya-Shian Li-Baboud, Jabir Marakkarakath Vadakkepurayil, Paulina Kuo, Thomas Gerrits, Oliver T. Slattery, Sergey Polyakov
We present a source of indistinguishable photons at telecom wavelength, synchronized to an external clock, for the use in distributed quantum networks. We

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
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Patents (2018-Present)

Quantum Flow Cytometer

NIST Inventors
Sergey Polyakov and Ivan Burenkov
A quantum flow cytometer for detecting an analyte with photon-number statistics includes: a flow cytometer that: receives a pump light in a first direction; receives an analyte flow comprising the analyte in a second direction; and produces scattered light from scattering the pump light by the

Quantum-Enabled Flow Cytometer

NIST Inventors
Sergey Polyakov and Ivan Burenkov
Flow cytometry is arguably the most powerful optical method routinely used in the diagnosis of health disorders and disease monitoring. We enhance an optical flow cytometer with a photon­ number statistics measurement. Our technique allows for an absolute measurement of biomarker concentration and

Quantum Flow Cytometer

NIST Inventors
Sergey Polyakov and Ivan Burenkov
Flow cytometry is arguably the most powerful optical method routinely used in the diagnosis of health disorders and disease monitoring. We enhance an optical flow cytometer with a photon­ number statistics measurement. Our technique allows for an absolute measurement of biomarker concentration and
A timeline of long distance communication techniques

Communication Linker for Communication Linking

NIST Inventors
Sergey Polyakov and Ivan Burenkov
A communication linker includes: a classical encoder; an optical transmitter; a receiver; a local oscillator in communication with the receiver and that: receives a feedback signal; and produces a displacement frequency, based on the feedback signal; a single photon detector in communication with
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Created May 31, 2018, Updated September 20, 2024