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

• Gentile, AA, Santagati, R, Wang, J, Paesani, S, Wiebe, N, McClean, J, Bonneau, D, Silverstone, JW, Morley-Short, S, Shadbolt, PJ, Tew, DP, Zhou, X, O'Brien, JL & Thompson, MG, 2019, ‘Witness Assisted Eigenspectra Solver on a Silicon Quantum Photonic Simulator’. in: 2018 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim, CLEO-PR 2018. 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.
• Eltes, F, Barreto, J, Caimi, D, Karg, SF, Gentile, AA, Hart, A, Stark, P, Meier, N, Thompson, M, Fompeyrine, J & Abel, S, 2019, ‘First cryogenic electro-optic switch on silicon with high bandwidth and low power tunability’. in: 2018 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), pp. 23.1. 1-23.1. 4
• 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, vol 11.
• 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
• 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)
• 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
• 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.
• 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
• Faruque, II, Sinclair, GF, Bonneau, D, Rarity, JG & Thompson, MG, 2018, ‘On-chip quantum interference with heralded photons from two independent micro-ring resonator sources in silicon photonics’. Optics Express, vol 26., pp. 20379-20395

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