Roland Jaha, Konstantin Zaitsev, Polina Acheva, and Robin Terhaar in the lab.Image ©2024 Vadim Makarov / University of Vigo
Konstantin Zaitsev in the lab.Image ©2024 Vadim Makarov / University of Vigo
Konstantin Zaitsev, Connor Graham-Scott, Wolfram Pernice, and Robin Terhaar in the lab.Image ©2024 Vadim Makarov / University of Vigo
Test instruments in front of the cryostat.Image ©2024 Vadim Makarov / University of Vigo
Lab construction (2024– , Vigo)
Delivery of optical tables: Unboxing a 600-kilogram part.Image ©2024 Vadim Makarov / University of Vigo
Delivery of optical tables.Image ©2024 Vadim Makarov / University of Vigo
Installation of optical tables in the lab.Image ©2024 Vadim Makarov / University of Vigo
Optical tables installed in the lab.Image ©2024 Vadim Makarov / University of Vigo
Verification of a countermeasure in superconducting-nanowire single-photon detector (2023, Moscow)
Polina Acheva and Konstantin Zaitsev in the lab.Image ©2023 Vadim Makarov / RQC
Roman Ozhegov and Konstantin Zaitsev in the lab.Image ©2023 Vadim Makarov / RQC
Polina Acheva, Konstantin Zaitsev, Roman Ozhegov, and Mikhail Elezov in the lab.Image ©2023 Vadim Makarov / RQC
Certification testbenches for quantum key distribution (2022– )
Wide spectral characterisation testbench for fiber-optic components.Image ©2024 Vadim Makarov / University of Vigo
Detector-control testbench.Image ©2024 Vladimir Bizin / RQC
Testbench for source’s state-preparation imperfections.Image ©2022 Daniil Trefilov / RQC
Testbench for detector backflash light emission.Image ©2024 Alexey Shilko / RQC
Laser-damage testbench with a continuous-wave 1550 nm high-power amplifier.Image ©2024 Ekaterina Borisova / RQC
Laser damage experiments (2019– , Moscow)
Guest researcher Friederike Jöhlinger and Charles Bennett at VDNKh exhibit grounds.Image ©2019 Vadim Makarov / RQC
Anastasiya Ponosova, guest researcher Friederike Jöhlinger, and Daria Ruzhitskaya in the lab.Image ©2019 Vadim Makarov / RQC
Daria Ruzhitskaya, Anastasiya Ponosova, and guest researcher Friederike Jöhlinger in the lab.Image ©2019 Vadim Makarov / RQC
Daria Ruzhitskaya, Anastasiya Ponosova, and guest researcher Friederike Jöhlinger in the lab.Image ©2019 Vadim Makarov / RQC
Guest professor Anqi Huang and Elena Anisimova in the Kremlin.Image ©2019 Vadim Makarov / RQC
Guest professor Anqi Huang in the lab.Image ©2019 Vadim Makarov / RQC
Anastasiya Ponosova and Daria Ruzhitskaya in the lab.Image ©2019 Vadim Makarov / RQC
Anastasiya Ponosova and guest professor Anqi Huang in the lab.Image ©2019 Vadim Makarov / RQC
Anastasiya Ponosova and guest professor Anqi Huang in the lab.Image ©2019 Vadim Makarov / RQC
Anastasiya Ponosova and guest professor Anqi Huang in the lab.Image ©2019 Vadim Makarov / RQC
Guest researcher Poompong Chaiwongkhot and Elena Anisimova, New Year 2019 at professor’s house.Image ©2019 Vadim Makarov / RQC
Laser-damage testbench with a continuous-wave 1550 nm high-power amplifier.Image ©2024 Ekaterina Borisova / RQC
Lab construction (2018–2020, Moscow)
Our lab in September 2018.Image ©2018 Vadim Makarov / RQC
Our lab in December 2018.Image ©2018 Vadim Makarov / RQC
Delivery of optical tables.Image ©2020 Vadim Makarov / RQC
Delivery of optical tables.Image ©2020 Vadim Makarov / RQC
Lab monsters :)
Lab monsters and guest professor Juan Carlos García Escartín.Image ©2016 Vadim Makarov
Lab monster and visitor Marcos Curty.Image ©2016 Vadim Makarov
Lab monster and Daria are sharing monster’s food.Image ©2016 Vadim Makarov
Security analysis of commercial quantum cryptography prototype from ITMO University (2017, Waterloo – St. Petersburg)
Waterloo testing team on a mushroom picking trip near St. Petersburg.Image ©2017 Vadim Makarov
Waterloo testing team and ITMO researchers with their commercial quantum key distribution prototype.Image ©2017 Vadim Makarov / ITMO
Vladimir Chistiakov and Vladimir Egorov doing a hacking experiment in Waterloo.Image ©2017 Vadim Makarov
Guest researchers in our lab (2014, Waterloo)
Guest researchers Kejin Wei and Feihu Xu work with our PhD student Shihan Sajeed.Image ©2014 Vadim Makarov
Guest researchers Kejin Wei and Feihu Xu in our lab.Image ©2014 Vadim Makarov
Radiation testing of single-photon detectors for space-based quantum communications (2014, Waterloo – Vancouver)
Ready to be shipped to Vancouver: 14 boxes of equipment on three pallets. Brendon Higgins and Elena Anisimova are nearly sleeping.Image ©2014 Vadim Makarov
Lego for big kids. Main hall of TRIUMF cyclotron facility in Vancouver.Image ©2014 Vadim Makarov
Vadim Makarov stands on top of the cyclotron: residual magnetic field chains coins.Image ©2014 Thomas Jennewein
Elena Anisimova and Jean-Philippe Bourgoin assemble the test plate with photon detector samples.Image ©2014 Vadim Makarov
Elena Anisimova and Jean-Philippe Bourgoin assemble the test plate with photon detector samples.Image ©2014 Vadim Makarov
Test group of six avalanche photodiodes of three different models.Image ©2014 Vadim Makarov
Test group of six avalanche photodiodes of three different models. Front view.Image ©2014 Vadim Makarov
Test group of six avalanche photodiodes. Back view.Image ©2014 Vadim Makarov
Five test groups of avalanche photodiodes and three photomultiplier tubes are mounted on a chilled plate.Image ©2014 Vadim Makarov
Back of the test plate.Image ©2014 Vadim Makarov
Back of the test plate with electrical cables attached.Image ©2014 Vadim Makarov
Manager of the proton irradiation facility and Jean-Philippe Bourgoin align the covered test plate at the beam position.Image ©2014 Vadim Makarov
The test bench is ready to irradiate our samples.Image ©2014 Thomas Jennewein
Proton beam dump, made of clear plastic visibly deteriorated by radiation.Image ©2014 Vadim Makarov
Door lock panel ensures no one is inside the test room when the proton beam is running.Image ©2014 Vadim Makarov
Brendon Higgins presses the radiation start button.Image ©2014 Vadim Makarov
Exposure count is ticking as our samples are being irradiated by high-energy protons, simulating years in orbit in a matter of minutes.Image ©2014 Vadim Makarov
Safety first: Louis Piche checks residual radiation level after irradiation.Image ©2014 Vadim Makarov
All clear: the residual radiation level here is less than a person receives when flying in a jetliner.Image ©2014 Vadim Makarov
Label on a storage cabinet for metal scraps.Image ©2014 Vadim Makarov
Brendon Higgins and Jean-Philippe Bourgoin discuss test data measured immediately after sample irradiation.Image ©2014 Vadim Makarov
Team members with the test setup: Brendon Higgins, Elena Anisimova, Louis Piche and Jean-Philippe Bourgoin.Image ©2014 Vadim Makarov
Team in the control room: Elena Anisimova, Vadim Makarov, Brendon Higgins, Thomas Jennewein, Jean-Philippe Bourgoin and Louis Piche.Image ©2014 Thomas Jennewein
Thomas Jennewein, Elena Anisimova and Vadim Makarov in Horseshoe Bay, British Columbia.Image ©2014 Vadim Makarov
Lab construction (2014, Waterloo)
Visiting PhD student Paulo Vinicius Pereira Pinheiro cuts a metal rod.Image ©2014 Vadim Makarov
Vadim Makarov stress-tests a newly built instrument shelf.Image ©2014 Paulo Vinicius Pereira Pinheiro
Canadian quantum communication satellite (2013–2018, Waterloo)
Master’s student Jin Gyu Lim shows his setup for testing single-photon detectors.Image ©2016 Vadim Makarov
Master’s student Jin Gyu Lim shows his setup for testing single-photon detectors.Image ©2016 Vadim Makarov
Master’s student Jin Gyu Lim shows his setup for testing single-photon detectors.Image ©2016 Vadim Makarov
PhD student Elena Anisimova and undergraduate student Jin Gyu Lim are having a meeting.Image ©2015 Vadim Makarov
Undergraduate student Jin Gyu Lim assembles a detector testing setup.Image ©2014 Vadim Makarov
4-channel single-photon detector prototype for mobile quantum receiver.Image ©2014 Vadim Makarov / IQC
4-channel single-photon detector prototype for mobile quantum receiver.Image ©2014 Vadim Makarov / IQC
4-channel single-photon detector prototype for mobile quantum receiver. Top view.Image ©2014 Vadim Makarov / IQC
4-channel single-photon detector prototype for mobile quantum receiver. Top view.Image ©2014 Vadim Makarov / IQC
4-channel single-photon detector prototype for mobile quantum receiver. Bottom view.Image ©2014 Vadim Makarov / IQC
4-channel single-photon detector prototype for mobile quantum receiver. Bottom view.Image ©2014 Vadim Makarov / IQC
Security analysis of commercial quantum cryptography equipment from ID Quantique (2012–2018, Waterloo)
Jan Gulla in the lab.Image ©2017 Vadim Makarov
PhD student Anqi Huang tests security strength of ID Quantique’s Clavis2 quantum cryptography system.Image ©2015 Vadim Makarov
Hacker’s distraction: Vadim’s daughter Darya, 3 months old, dressed in a shirt received from ID Quantique.Image ©2015 Vadim Makarov
Hacker’s distraction: Vadim’s daughter Darya, 3 months old, dressed in a shirt received from ID Quantique.Image ©2015 Vadim Makarov
ID Quantique’s Clavis2 commercial quantum key distribution system, with our lab’s dinosaur mascots.Image ©2013 IQC
Live demo of ID Quantique’s Clavis2 commercial quantum key distribution system at Quantum-nano centre’s grand opening in Waterloo.Image ©2012 IQC / Peter Kovacs
Sarah Kaiser showing the lab to Charles Bennett, Luiz Davidovich and others.Image ©2013 IQC
ID Quantique Quantis random number generator decapsulated.Image ©2013 Vadim Makarov
Low-noise avalanche single-photon detector for quantum communication (2012–2017, Waterloo – Vienna – Canary Islands)
Alice & Charlie on La Palma, in Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope. Green tracking beam is pointing over 143 km to Tenerife.Image ©2011 IQOQI Vienna
Alice & Charlie on La Palma, in Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope. Green tracking beam is pointing towards Tenerife.Image ©2011 IQOQI Vienna
Bob on Tenerife, in ESA Optical Ground Station telescope. Green tracking beam is pointing over 143 km to La Palma.Image ©2011 IQOQI Vienna
Elena Anisimova and Vadim Makarov, holding new and older detector modelsImage ©2012 IQC / Peter Kovacs
Vadim Makarov with a part for avalanche photon detectorImage ©2012 IQC / Peter Kovacs
Vadim Makarov with a part for avalanche photon detectorImage ©2012 IQC / Peter Kovacs
Bob on Tenerife, in ESA Optical Ground Station telescope. Green tracking beam is pointing into a cloud in the direction of La Palma.Image by Tobias Schmitt-Manderbach
Cracking commercial quantum cryptography by tailored bright illumination (2008–2010, Norway)
(see also separate page with explanations to these pictures )
Intercept-resend attack experiment (2009, Singapore)
(see also separate page with explanations to these pictures )
Bob control experiment (2009, Singapore)
Hacking PerkinElmer SPCM-AQR single-photon detector module (2008–2010, Norway)
Controlling passively-quenched single-photon detector (2007, Moscow)
Large pulse attack experiment (2000, Norway)
Quantum key distribution setup (1999–2001, Norway)
Pictures of us
(see also individual photos in the list of lab members )
A party with colleagues and some members of Vadim’s group at his place in Yudino, Russia in May 2024.Image ©2024 Vadim Makarov
Members and collaborators of the Quantum hacking lab in March 2017. Left to right, standing: Brendon Higgins, Anqi Huang, Katanya Kuntz, Ruoping Li, Hao Qin, Shaeera Rabbanee Shuvra, Shihan Sajeed with little Sabriyah Sajeed, little Daria Makarova; sitting: Jin Gyu Lim, Vadim Makarov, Elena Anisimova, Poompong Chaiwongkhot, Nigar Sultana.Image ©2017 Vadim Makarov, Scott McManus / IQC
Members and collaborators of the Quantum hacking lab in November 2014 (left to right): Poompong Chaiwongkhot, Carter Minshull, Mark Bourgon, Anqi Huang, Elena Anisimova, Nigar Sultana, Paulo Pinheiro, Shihan Sajeed, Vadim Makarov.Image ©2014 Vadim Makarov, Scott McManus / IQC
PhD student Anqi Huang with her team’s prize-winning carving at Halloween IQC party 2014.Image ©2014 Vadim Makarov
Group in Norway:
Pictures from some of the conferences we attended
ID Quantique 10th winter school on quantum cybersecurity in Les Diablerets, Switzerland, January 20–26, 2018. Snowshoeing.Image ©2018 Vadim Makarov
Trustworthy quantum information (TyQI) workshop in Shanghai, China, July 27–30, 2016. Some of the participants went to see the Bund.
ID Quantique 8th winter school on quantum cybersecurity in Les Diablerets, Switzerland, January 16–21, 2016. Peak walk.Image ©2016 Bruno Huttner
ID Quantique 8th winter school on quantum cybersecurity in Les Diablerets, Switzerland, January 16–21, 2016. Glacier 3000.Image ©2016 Bruno Huttner
FRISC workshop in Reykjavik, Iceland, June 8–9, 2015. Superjeep excursion in the hills.Image ©2015 Vadim Makarov
FRISC workshop in Reykjavik, Iceland, June 8–9, 2015. Secret Lagoon pool and geothermal area.Image ©2015 Vadim Makarov
ID Quantique 6th winter school on practical quantum communications, Les Diablerets, Switzerland, January 19–23, 2014
QCrypt 2013, 3rd international conference on quantum cryptography, Waterloo, Canada, August 5–9, 2013. We were the local organizers of this conference.
Tropical QKD workshop in Waterloo, Canada, June 14–17, 2010
XI International Conference on Quantum Optics in Minsk, May 26–31, 2006
30 Years of Fibre Optic Research seminar at NTNU, March 4, 2003
Norwegian Cryptographic Seminar at NTNU, October 17–18, 2002
Our poster Practical quantum cryptography won the “Best poster presentation by a young scientist” award at the Norwegian Electro-Optics Meeting in Flåm, May 2–5, 2002.
1st Quantum Information Processing & Communications Workshop in Potsdam, September 27–29, 2000
Quantum Information meeting at KTH Kista, Stockholm, December 14–16, 1998
Miscellaneous
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