"One need neither hope to undertake, nor succeed to persevere."
William of Orange "the Silent" (1533-1584)

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise."
F. Scott Fitzgerald ("The Crack-Up," 1936)

NSF-PHY (AMO Quantum Optics) NSF-CCF (EMT)

See our recent research spotlit by APS in the online journal Physics!

Welcome to PfisterLabs! We are an experimental quantum optics and quantum information shop. We use nonlinear optics and ultrastable lasers and optical oscillators as our means to these ends. Our research follows two main axes:

Quantum information and quantum computing

Quantum measurements below the vacuum noise