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

• Raffaelli, F, Sibson, P, Kennard, JE, Mahler, DH, Thompson, MG & Matthews, JCF, 2018, ‘Generation of random numbers by measuring phase fluctuations from a laser diode with a silicon-on-insulator chip’. Optics Express, vol 26., pp. 19730-19741
• 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
• Faruque, I, Sinclair, G, Bonneau, D, Rarity, J & Thompson, M, 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
• Faruque, I, Llewellyn, D, Ding, Y, Paesani, S, Santagati, R, Bonneau, D, Sinclair, G, Bacco, D, Rottwitt, K, Oxenløwe, LK, O'Brien, J, Wang, J, Rarity, J & Thompson, M, 2018, ‘Indistinguishable Photon-Pairs from Pure and Bright Silicon Micro-ring Resonator Sources’.
• Vaquiero-Stainer, A, Hart, A, Kirkwood, RA, Semenenko, H, Burenkov, V, Sibson, P, Chunnilall, C, Erven, C, Thompson, M & Sinclair, AG, 2018, ‘Measurements towards providing security assurance for a chip-scale QKD system’.
• 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
• Semenenko, H, Sibson, P, Erven, C & Thompson, M, 2018, ‘Integrated Photonic Devices for Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution’.
• Price, A, Sibson, P, Erven, C, Rarity, J & Thompson, M, 2018, ‘High-Speed Quantum Key Distribution with Wavelength-Division Multiplexing on Integrated Photonic Devices’.
• 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, ‘Magnetic-field-learning using a single electronic spin in diamond with one-photon-readout at room temperature’. arXiv.
• Faruque, I, Sinclair, G, Bonneau, D, Rarity, J & Thompson, M, 2018, ‘Developing indistinguishable single photon sources in silicon photonics’.

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