Roberto Mottola

Roberto Mottola is a postdoctoral researcher in the Quantum Memory Lab at the University of Basel, working in the research group of Prof. Philipp Treutlein. Over the past few years, he worked on quantum memories for light using hot atomic vapors as storagemedium, demonstrating single-photon storage and retrieval with high bandwidth. His current research is focused on optimizing and miniaturizing such quantum memories and interfacing them with high-quality single-photon sources such as semiconductor quantumdots and spontaneous parametric downconversion sources. Demonstrating elementary quantum interconnects on a scalable technological platform will be an important step towards quantum networking demonstrations, such as entanglement distribution between multiple network nodes.