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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.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
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Multiprotocol Quantum Key Distribution Receiver for Free Space
Tello Castillo, A., Zanforlin, U., Buller, G. S. & Donaldson, R. J., 11 Jan 2023, Quantum Technology: Driving Commercialisation of an Enabling Science III. SPIE, 123350B. (Proceedings of SPIE; vol. 12335).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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A Bayesian Based Unrolling Approach to Single-Photon Lidar Imaging through Obscurants
Koo, J., Halimi, A., Maccarone, A., Buller, G. S. & McLaughlin, S., 18 Oct 2022, 30th European Signal Processing Conference 2022. IEEE, 9909749Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Covert information sharing via ghost displacement
Zanforlin, U., Tatsi, G., Jeffers, J. & Buller, G. S., 6 May 2022, (Submitted) In: Physical Review A.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Fast Task-Based Adaptive Sampling For 3D Single-Photon Multispectral LiDAR Data
Belmekki, M. A. A., Tobin, R., Buller, G. S., McLaughlin, S. & Halimi, A., 2022, In: IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging. 8, p. 174-187 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Ge-on-Si single-photon avalanche diode detectors for short-wave infrared wavelengths
Thorburn, F., Yi, X., Greener, Z. M., Kirdoda, J., Millar, R. W., Huddleston, L. L., Paul, D. J. & Buller, G. S., Jan 2022, In: JPhys Photonics. 4, 1, 012001.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Open AccessFile2 Citations (Scopus)21 Downloads (Pure)
Datasets
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Custom-Technology Single-Photon Avalanche Diode Linear Detector Array for Underwater Depth Imaging
Buller, G. S. (Creator) & Maccarone, A. (Creator), Heriot-Watt University, 2021
DOI: 10.17861/27b3b0f1-b696-4795-9110-0ae462338994
Dataset
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Dataset supporting the manuscript: "Optical quantum super-resolution imaging and hypothesis testing" (Nature Communications)
Zanforlin, U. (Creator), Lupo, C. (Contributor), Connolly, P. (Contributor), Kok, P. (Supervisor), Buller, G. S. (Supervisor) & Huang, Z. (Contributor), Heriot-Watt University, 1 Jul 2022
DOI: 10.17861/1f5fc8ca-f38e-4218-9cf4-dba33c44fe51
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Dataset supporting the manuscript: "Manipulating thermal light via displaced photon subtraction" (PRA)
Tasti, G. (Contributor), Canning, D. (Contributor), Zanforlin, U. (Creator), Mazzarella, L. (Contributor), Jeffers, J. (Supervisor) & Buller, G. S. (Supervisor), Heriot-Watt University, 25 Apr 2022
DOI: 10.17861/57cbd041-e6e3-4c77-96a5-04077ddd1111
Dataset
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Dataset supporting the manuscript: "Covert information sharing via ghost displacement" (PRA)
Zanforlin, U. (Creator), Tatsi, G. (Contributor), Jeffers, J. (Supervisor) & Buller, G. S. (Supervisor), Heriot-Watt University, 1 Jul 2022
DOI: 10.17861/9a38ac37-041f-4de6-ba1d-c34502a5b71b
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Data for "High concentration factor diffractive microlenses integrated with CMOS single-photon avalanche diode detector arrays for fill-factor improvement"
Connolly, P. (Creator), Ren, X. (Creator), McCarthy, A. (Creator), Mai, H. (Creator), Villa, F. (Creator), Waddie, A. J. (Creator), Taghizadeh, M. R. (Creator), Tosi, A. (Creator), Zappa, F. (Creator), Henderson, R. K. (Creator) & Buller, G. S. (Creator), Heriot-Watt University, Apr 2020
DOI: 10.17861/f8e4c45e-148a-4885-a972-5acd4d0deeab
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Prizes
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EPSRC Quantum Technology Fellowship - Next Generation Imaging using Sparse Single-Photon Data
Buller, Gerald Stuart (Recipient), 1 Jul 2015
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
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Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA)
Buller, Gerald Stuart (Recipient), 1 Jan 2017
Prize: Election to learned society
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Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Buller, Gerald Stuart (Recipient), 2010
Prize: Election to learned society
Activities
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Multiprotocol quantum key distribution receiver for free space
Alfonso Tello (Speaker), Ugo Zanforlin (Contributor), Gerald Stuart Buller (Contributor) & Ross J. Donaldson (Contributor)
2022 → …Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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Utilizing the UK’s quantum optical ground station infrastructure for advanced satellite-based quantum communication demonstrations
Elizabeth Eso (Speaker), Peter Barrow (Contributor), Cameron Simmons (Contributor), Rebecca Harwin (Contributor), Hannah Robarts (Contributor), Alexander Pickston (Contributor), David Pearson (Contributor), Stuart Robertson (Contributor), Andy Vick (Contributor), Alessandro Fedrizzi (Contributor), Gerald Stuart Buller (Contributor) & Ross J. Donaldson (Contributor)
2022 → …Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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Link loss analysis for a satellite quantum communication down-link
Chunmei Zhang (Speaker), Alfonso Tello Castillo (Contributor), Ugo Zanforlin (Contributor), Gerald Stuart Buller (Contributor) & Ross J. Donaldson (Contributor)
21 Sep 2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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Satellite-based quantum communications
Ross J. Donaldson (Speaker), Gerald Stuart Buller (Contributor) & Alessandro Fedrizzi (Contributor)
11 Aug 2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Photonics 21 (External organisation)
Gerald Stuart Buller (Member)
2013 → …Activity: Membership › Membership of committee