Professor Mark Thompson

Research summary

• Photonic Devices
• Photonic Integration
• Experimental Quantum Optics

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Biography

Director of the Quantum Engineering Centre for Doctoral Training

Deputy Director of the Centre for Quantum Photonics

Brief summary of professional and academic experiences:

Senior Lecturer and Research Fellow
Departments of Physics and Electrical Engineering,
University of Bristol, UK
2008 - present

Toshiba Research Fellow
Electron Device Laboratories
Toshiba Corporate Research & Development Centre, Kawasaki, Japan 
2009 - 2010

Research Fellow
Sidney Sussex College
University of Cambridge, UK
2006 - 2008

PhD
Department of Engineering,
University of Cambridge, UK
2002 - 2006

Research Scientist
Bookham Technology Ltd,
Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK
2000 - 2002

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Links

• Quantum Engineering Centre for Doctoral Training
• Bristol photonics
•   QUANTIP FP7 project
• Centre for Quantum Photonics

Recent publications

• Raffaelli, F, Sibson, P, Kennard, JE, Mahler, DH, Thompson, MG & Matthews, JCF, 2018, ‘Generation of random numbers by measuring phase fluctuations from a laser diode with a silicon-on-insulator chip’. Optics Express, vol 26., pp. 19730-19741
• Qiang, X, Zhou, X, Wang, J, Wilkes, C, Loke, T, O'Gara, S, Kling, L, Marshall, G, Santagati, R, Ralph, T, Wang, J, O'Brien, J, Thompson, M & Matthews, J, 2018, ‘Large-scale silicon quantum photonics implementing arbitrary two-qubit processing’. Nature Photonics, vol 12., pp. 534-539

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