RSAA Colloquia / Seminars / Feast-of-Facts: Thursday, 09 January 2025, 14:00-15:00; ZOOM or Duffield Lecture Theatre


Don Figer

"The Future Photon Initiative and Detecting Habitable Worlds"

Never before have we had such precise control of photon creation, manipulation, and detection. In this talk, I will describe the Rochester Institute of Technology’s Future Photon Initiative that seeks to leverage state-of-the art understanding of photonic devices for a broad range of applications, spanning astrophysics, quantum information science and technology, energy, and operation in high radiation environments. In particular, I will discuss our efforts to advance single photon counting imaging detectors for future missions, such as the Habitable World Observatory.