Samantha is a graduate student in the Applied Physics program. She completed her Bachelor of Science in Engineering Physics from Cornell University in 2012.
Research:
She worked on the generation, reconstruction, and transportation of high-dimensional time-bin-entangled photon pairs. In the past, she has worked to optimize the performance of a Sagnac-loop optical switch and to model pulsed fiber-optic parametric amplifiers.
Publications:
1. S. J. Nowierski, N. N. Oza, P. Kumar, and G. S. Kanter, "Tomographic reconstruction of time-bin-entangled qudits," Phys. Rev. A 94, 042328 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.94.042328
2. S. Nowierski, N. N. Oza, P. Kumar, and G. S. Kanter, "Generation and Reconstruction of Time-Bin Entangled Ququarts," Frontiers in Optics, paper FW3B.2 (2016). http://www.osapublishing.org/abstract.cfm?URI=FiO-2016-FW3B.2
3. S. Nowierski, N. N. Oza, P. Kumar, and G. S. Kanter, "Experimental Reconstruction of Time-Bin-Entangled Qutrit States using Polarization Projective Measurements," in CLEO: 2015, OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optical Society of America, 2015), paper FTu2A.5. 10.1364/CLEO_QELS.2015.
Honors and awards:
NSF GRFP Fellowship (2014-2017)
(National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program)
Emil Wolf Student Paper Competition Prize Winner (Fiber Optics and Optical Communication Category) at FiO/LS Conference (2016)
