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

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

• Villarreal-Garcia, GE, Tyler, N, Barreto, J, Bonneau, D, Sahin, D, O'Brien, J & Thompson, M, 2016, ‘Modelling Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors in a Waveguide-Based Ring Resonator’. in: 2016 International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices (NUSOD 2016): Proceedings of a meeting held 11-15 July 2016, Sydney, Australia. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Tyler, NA, Barreto, J, Villarreal-Garcia, GE, Bonneau, D, Sahin, D, O'Brien, JL & Thompson, MG, 2016, ‘Modelling superconducting nanowire single photon detectors in a waveguide cavity’. Optics Express, vol 24., pp. 8797-8808
• Wang, J, Bonneau, D, Villa, M, Silverstone, J, Santagati, R, Miki, S, Yamashita, T, Fujiwara, M, Sasaki, M, Terai, H, Tanner, M, Natarajan, CM, Hadfield, RH, O'Brien, J & Thompson, M, 2016, ‘Chip-to-chip quantum photonic interconnect by path-polarization interconversion’. Optica, vol 3., pp. 407-413
• Aguado, A, Hugues-Salas, E, Haigh, PA, Marhuenda, J, Price, AB, Sibson, P, Kennard, JE, Erven, C, Rarity, JG, Thompson, MG, Lord, A, Nejabati, R & Simeonidou, D, 2016, ‘First Experimental Demonstration of Secure NFV Orchestration over an SDN-Controlled Optical Network with Time-Shared Quantum Key Distribution Resources’.
• Santagati, R, Wang, J, Paesani, S, Gentile, AA, Bonneau, D, Silverstone, J, Morley-Short, S, Shadbolt, P, Thompson, M & O'Brien, J, 2016, ‘Ground state solver on a silicon quantum photonic chip’.
• Hemsley, L, Bonneau, D, Sinclair, G, O'Brien, J & Thompson, M, 2016, ‘Comparison of Photon Pair Generation in a-Si:H and c-Si Microring Resonators’.
• Bonneau, D, Silverstone, J & Thompson, M, 2016, ‘Silicon Quantum Photonics’. in: Pavesi Lorenzo, David J Lockwood (eds) Silicon Photonics III: Systems and Applications., pp. 41-82
• Carolan, J, Harrold, C, Sparrow, C, Lopez, EM, Russell, N, Silverstone, J, Shadbolt, P, Matsuda, N, Ogama, M, Itoh, M, Marshall, G, Thompson, M, Matthews, J, Hashimoto, T, O'Brien, J & Laing, A, 2015, ‘Universal linear optics’. Science, vol 349., pp. 711-716
• Wang, J, Bonneau, D, Villa, M, Silverstone, JW, Santagati, R, Miki, S, Yamashita, T, Fujiwara, M, Sasaki, M, Terai, H, Tanner, MG, Natarajan, CM, Hadfield, RH, O'Brien, JL & Thompson, MG, 2015, ‘Quantum Photonic Interconnect’. arXiv .
• Wang, J, Villa, M, Bonneau, D, Santagati, R, Silverstone, JW, Erven, C, Miki, S, Yamashita, T, Fujiwara, M, Sasaki, M, Terai, H, Tanner, MG, Natarajan, CM, Hadfield, RH, O'Brien, JL & Thompson, MG, 2015, ‘Chip-to-chip quantum entanglement distribution’. in: CLEO: QELS - Fundamental Science, CLEO_QELS 2015. Optical Society of America (OSA), pp. 1551p

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