Dr 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

• Nanoscience and Quantum Information

Research groups

• Quantum Photonics

Links

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

Recent publications

• Wang, J, Santamato, A, Jiang, P, Bonneau, D, Engin, E, Silverstone, JW, Lermer, M, Beetz, J, Kamp, M, Hoefling, S, Tanner, MG, Natarajan, CM, Hadfield, RH, Dorenbos, SN, Zwiller, V, O'Brien, JL & Thompson, MG 2014, ‘Gallium arsenide (GaAs) quantum photonic waveguide circuits’. Phys Lett A, vol 327., pp. 49-55
• Silverstone, JW, Bonneau, D, Ohira, K, Suzuki, N, Yoshida, H, Iizuka, N, Ezaki, M, Natarajan, CM, Tanner, MG, Hadfield, RH, Zwiller, V, Marshall, GD, Rarity, JG, O'Brien, JL & Thompson, MG 2014, ‘On-chip quantum interference between silicon photon-pair sources’. Nature Photonics, vol 8., pp. 104-108
• Carolan, J, Meinecke, JDA, Shadbolt, PJS, Russell, NJ, Ismail, N, Wörhoff, K, Rudolph, T, Thompson, MG, O'Brien, JL, Matthews, JCF & Laing, A 2014, ‘On the experimental verification of quantum complexity in linear optics’. Nature Photonics, vol 8., pp. 621-626
• Zhang, P, Aungskunsiri, K, Lopez, EM, Wabnig, J, Lobino, M, Nock, RW, Munns, J, Bonneau, D, Jiang, P, Li, HW, Laing, A, Rarity, JG, Niskanen, AO, Thompson, MG & O'Brien, JL 2014, ‘Reference-Frame-Independent Quantum-Key-Distribution Server with a Telecom Tether for an On-Chip Client’. 7th meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Particles and Fields, vol 112.
• Strain, MJ, Cai, X, Wang, J, Zhu, J, Phillips, DB, Chen, L, Lopez-Garcia, M, O'Brien, JL, Thompson, MG, Sorel, M, Yu, S & Garcia, ML 2014, ‘Fast electrical switching of orbital angular momentum modes using ultra-compact integrated vortex emitters’. Nature Communications, vol 5., pp. 4856
• Meinecke, JDA, Poulios, K, Politi, A, Matthews, JCF, Peruzzo, A, Ismail, N, Worhoff, K, O'Brien, JL & Thompson, MG 2013, ‘Coherent time evolution and boundary conditions of two-photon quantum walks in waveguide arrays’. Physical Review A, vol 88.
• Matthews, JCF, Poulios, K, Meinecke, JDA, Politi, A, Peruzzo, A, Ismail, N, Worhoff, K, Thompson, MG & O'Brien, JL 2013, ‘Observing fermionic statistics with photons in arbitrary processes’. Scientific Reports, vol 3.
• Engin, E, Bonneau, D, Natarajan, CM, Clark, AS, Tanner, MG, Hadfield, RH, Dorenbos, SN, Zwiller, V, Ohira, K, Suzuki, N, Yoshida, H, Iizuka, N, Ezaki, M, O'Brien, JL & Thompson, MG 2013, ‘Photon pair generation in a silicon micro-ring resonator with reverse bias enhancement’. Optics Express, vol 21., pp. 27826-27834
• Matthews, JCF, Poulios, K, Meinecke, JDA, Politi, A, Peruzzo, A, Ismail, N, Worhoff, K, Thompson, MG & O'Brien, JL 2013, ‘Observing fermionic statistics with photons in arbitrary processes (vol 3, 1539, 2013)’. Scientific Reports, vol 3.
• Poulios, K, Fry, D, Politi, A, Ismail, N, Worhoff, K, O'Brien, JL & Thompson, MG 2013, ‘Two-photon quantum interference in integrated multi-mode interference devices’. Optics Express, vol 21., pp. 23401-23409

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