Gerald Stuart Buller — Heriot-Watt University

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Research interests

Prof Buller's research interests are mainly associated with single photon detection and its applications, including quantum key distribution, quantum imaging, time–of–flight ranging and depth imaging. He also has wider interests in semiconductor optoelectronic devices and optical thin film multilayer structures. Prof Buller heads a group of around eight researchers and is Principal Investigator on a number of major research projects funded by EPSRC, the European Union and industry. In 2010, Professor Buller was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Physics in 2002 and elected a Fellow of the Optical Society of America in 2017.

Biography

Prof Gerald S Buller was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1965. He graduated with BSc (Hons) Natural Philosophy from the University of Glasgow in 1986 and PhD in Physics from Heriot–Watt University in 1989. In 1990, Prof Buller became Lecturer in Physics at Heriot–Watt University, was promoted to Reader in 2000 and made a Professor in 2006. In parallel, Prof Buller co–founded TeraHertz Photonics Ltd. in 1998 and founded Helia Photonics Ltd. in 2002. He remains a Company Director of Helia Photonics Ltd., which is based in Livingston, Scotland.

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Research Output 1988 2019

137 Article
68 Conference contribution
16 Paper
2 Chapter
6 More

Analysis of the effects of imperfections in an optical heterodyne quantum random-number generator

Zanforlin, U., Donaldson, R. J., Collins, R. J. & Buller, G. S., 6 May 2019, In : Physical Review A. 99, 5, 052305.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

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random numbers

generators

defects

coherent sources

misalignment

Bayesian 3D Reconstruction of Complex Scenes from Single-Photon Lidar Data

Tachella, J., Altmann, Y., Ren, X., McCarthy, A., Buller, G. S., McLaughlin, S. & Tourneret, J-Y., 14 Mar 2019, In : SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences . 12, 1, p. 521-550 30 p.

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Photons

Pixels

Markov processes

Erosion

Time delay

High-efficiency Ge-on-Si SPADs for short-wave infrared

Dumas, D. C. S., Kirdoda, J., Millar, R. W., Vines, P., Kuzmenko, K., Buller, G. S. & Paul, D. J., 27 Feb 2019, Optical Components and Materials XVI. Digonnet, M. J. F. & Jiang, S. (eds.). SPIE, 1091424. (Proceedings of SPIE; vol. 10914).

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Single Photon Avalanche Diode

High Efficiency

Infrared

Photons

Avalanche diodes

High performance planar germanium-on-silicon single-photon avalanche diode detectors

Vines, P., Kuzmenko, K., Kirdoda, J., Dumas, D. C. S., Mirza, M. M., Millar, R. W., Paul, D. J. & Buller, G. S., 6 Mar 2019, In : Nature Communications. 10, 1086.

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Avalanches

Germanium

Silicon

Photons

Radio Waves

Joint Reconstruction of Multitemporal or Multispectral Single-Photon 3D LiDAR Images

Halimi, A., Tobin, R., McCarthy, A., Bioucas-Dias, J. M., McLaughlin, S. & Buller, G. S., 28 Feb 2019, (Accepted/In press) 8th Conference of the Sensor Signal Processing for Defence.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Photons

Camouflage

Imaging techniques

Fog

Cost functions

Datasets

Analysis of the effects of imperfections in an optical heterodyne quantum random number generator

Donaldson, R. J. (Creator), Zanforlin, U. (Creator), Heriot-Watt University, 31 May 2019

DOI: 10.17861/4b390eba-eca3-4fc5-92cd-796679113413

Dataset

Dataset for "High performance planar Ge-on-Si single-photon avalanche diode detectors"

Vines, P. (Creator), Kuzmenko, K. (Creator), Kirdoda, J. (Creator), Dumas, D. D. S. (Creator), Mirza, M. M. (Creator), Millar, R. W. (Creator), Paul, D. J. (Creator), Buller, G. S. (Creator), Heriot-Watt University, 28 Nov 2018

DOI: 10.17861/5117a021-fc29-4577-ba3d-e53e86b9a4d7

Dataset

Dataset for Experimental transmission of quantum digital signatures over 90-km of installed optical fiber using a differential phase shift quantum key distribution system

Collins, R. J. (Creator), Amiri, R. (Creator), Fujiwara, M. (Creator), Honjo, T. (Creator), Tamaki, K. (Creator), Takeoka, M. (Creator), Andersson, A. E. E. (Creator), Buller, G. S. (Creator), Sasaki, M. (Creator), Heriot-Watt University, 14 Sep 2014

DOI: 10.17861/e9601420-6e29-423c-9bbd-04f3caee5820

Dataset

Dataset for "Experimental demonstration of quantum digital signatures over 43 dB channel loss using differential phase shift quantum key distribution"

Collins, R. J. (Creator), Heriot-Watt University, 1 May 2017

DOI: 10.17861/7c97c071-02b6-45de-b074-d96c87e9e207

Dataset

A high gain and high fidelity coherent state comparison amplifier

Donaldson, R. J. (Creator), Mazzarella, L. (Creator), Collins, R. J. (Creator), Jeffers, J. (Creator), Buller, G. S. (Creator), Heriot-Watt University, 1 Sep 2018

DOI: 10.17861/3c9649e1-0b4d-4c31-aec6-7512d567092d

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