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

• Sibson, P, Kennard, JE, Stanisic, S, Erven, C, O’Brien, JL & Thompson, MG, 2017, ‘Integrated silicon photonics for high-speed quantum key distribution’. Optica, vol 4., pp. 172-177
• Wang, J, Paesani, S, Santagati, R, Knauer, S, Gentile, AA, Wiebe, N, Petruzzella, M, O’Brien, JL, Rarity, JG, Laing, A & Thompson, MG, 2017, ‘Experimental quantum Hamiltonian learning’. Nature Physics, vol 13., pp. 551-555

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