Professor Mark Thompson

Summary

• Photonic Devices
• Photonic Integration
• Experimental Quantum Optics

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

Keywords

• Quantum photonic technologies
• Nanophotonics
• Optoelectronics
• Silicon photonics

Memberships

Organisations

Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering

Interface Analysis Centre

School of Physics

Other sites

• Eeng
• Engineering

Physics staff

• Physics academic staff

Research areas

• Quantum Foundations and Technologies

Research groups

• Quantum Photonics

Links

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

Recent publications

• Paesani, S, Ding, Y, Santagati, R, Chakhmakhchyan, L, Vigliar, C, Rottwitt, K, Oxenløwe, LK, Wang, J, Thompson, MG & Laing, A, 2019, ‘Generation and sampling of quantum states of light in a silicon chip’. Nature Physics, vol 15., pp. 925-929
• Semenenko, H, Sibson, P, Thompson, MG & Erven, C, 2019, ‘Interference between independent photonic integrated devices for quantum key distribution’. Optics Letters, vol 44., pp. 275-278
• Adcock, JC, Morley-Short, S, Silverstone, JW & Thompson, MG, 2019, ‘Hard limits on the postselectability of optical graph states’. Quantum Science and Technology, vol 4.
• Adcock, JC, Vigliar, C, Santagati, R, Silverstone, JW & Thompson, MG, 2019, ‘Programmable four-photon graph states on a silicon chip’. Nature Communications, vol 10.
• Thompson, MG, 2019, ‘Large-Scale Integrated Quantum Photonic Technologies for Communications and Computation’. in: 2019 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition, OFC 2019 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Faruque, II, Sinclair, GF, Bonneau, D, Ono, T, Silberhorn, C, Thompson, MG & Rarity, J, 2019, ‘Estimating the indistinguishability of heralded single photons using second-order correlation’. Physical Review Applied, vol 12.
• Llewellyn, DM, Ding, Y, Faruque, II, Paesani, S, Bacco, D, Santagati, R, Qian, Y-J, Li, Y, Xiao, Y-F, Huber, M, Malik, M, Sinclair, GF, Zhou, X, Rottwitt, K, O'Brien, JL, Rarity, J, Gong, Q, Oxenlowe, L, Wang, J & Thompson, MG, 2019, ‘Chip-to-chip quantum teleportation and multi-photon entanglement in silicon’. Nature Physics.
• Gentile, AA, Santagati, R, Knauer, S, Schmitt, S, Paesani, S, Granade, C, Wiebe, N, Osterkamp, C, McGuinness, LP, Wang, J, Thompson, MG, Rarity, JG, Jelezko, F & Laing, A, 2019, ‘High-sensitivity magnetometry at room temperature with post-processed optical readout of single NV-centres’. in: 2019 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2019 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Semenenko, H, Sibson, P, Thompson, MG & Erven, C, 2019, ‘Integrated photonic devices for measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution’. in: 2019 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2019 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Eltes, F, Garcia, GV, Caimi, D, Siegwart, H, Gentile, AA, Hart, A, Stark, P, Marshall, G, Thompson, M, Barreto, J, Fompeyrine, J & Abel, S, 2019, ‘An integrated cryogenic optical modulator’. arXiv.

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