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

• Sinclair, G, Tyler, N, Sahin, D, Barreto, J & Thompson, M, 2019, ‘Temperature dependence of the Kerr nonlinearity and two-photon absorption in a silicon waveguide at 1:55μm’. Physical Review Applied.
• Ono, T, Sinclair, G, Bonneau, D, Thompson, M, Matthews, J & Rarity, J, 2019, ‘Observation of nonlinear interference on a silicon photonic chip’. Optics Letters, vol 44., pp. 1277-1280
• Semenenko, H, Sibson, P, Thompson, M & Erven, C, 2019, ‘Interference between independent photonic integrated devices for quantum key distribution’. Optics Letters.
• Morley-Short, S, Silverstone, J, Adcock, JC & Thompson, M, 2019, ‘Hard limits on the postselectability of optical graph states’. Quantum Science and Technology, vol 4.
• 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
• Wang, J, Paesani, S, Ding, Y, Santagati, R, Skrzypczyk, P, Salavrakos, A, Tura, J, Augusiak, R, Mančinska, L, Bacco, D, Bonneau, D, Silverstone, JW, Gong, Q, Acín, A, Rottwitt, K, Oxenløwe, LK, O'Brien, JL, Laing, A & Thompson, MG, 2018, ‘Multidimensional quantum entanglement with large-scale integrated optics’. Science, vol 360., pp. 285-291
• Ferranti, G, Raffaelli, F, Mahler, DH, Sibson, P, Kennard, JE, Santamato, A, Sinclair, G, Bonneau, D, Thompson, MG & Matthews, JC, 2018, ‘An On-Chip Homodyne Detector for Measuring Quantum States’. in: 2018 IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topicals Meeting Series (SUM 2018). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), pp. 139-140
• Santagati, R, Gentile, AA, Knauer, S, Schmitt, S, Paesani, S, Granade, C, Wiebe, N, Osterkamp, C, McGuinness, LP, Wang, J, Thompson, MG, Rarity, JG, Jelezko, F & Laing, A, 2018, ‘Enhanced sensitivity magnetic field learning with a single electronic spin in diamond at room temperature’. Physical Review X.
• Paesani, S, Ding, Y, Santagati, R, Chakhmakhchyan, L, Vigliar, C, Rottwitt, K, Oxenløwe, LK, Wang, J, Thompson, MG & Laing, A, 2018, ‘Generation and sampling of quantum states of light in a silicon chip’. arXiv.
• Semenenko, H, Sibson, P, Erven, C & Thompson, M, 2018, ‘Integrated Photonic Devices for Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution’.

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