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

• Thompson, MG, Zhang, P, Aungskunsiri, K, Lopez, EM, Wabnig, J, Lobino, M, Nock, RWR, Munns, KJW, Bonneau, D, Jiang, P, H.W., L, Laing, A, Rarity, J, Niskanen, AO & O'Brien, JL 2014, ‘Reference-Frame-Independent Quantum-Key-Distribution Server with a Telecom Tether for an On-Chip Client’. Physical Review Letters.
• Matthews, J, Poulios, K, Meinecke, J, Politi, A, Peruzzo, A, Ismail, N, Worhoff, K, Thompson, M & O'Brien, J 2013, ‘Observing fermionic statistics with photons in arbitrary processes’. Scientific Reports, vol 3.
• Meinecke, J, Poulios, K, Politi, A, Matthews, J, Peruzzo, A, Ismail, N, Worhof, K, O'Brien, J & Thompson, M 2013, ‘Coherent time evolution and boundary conditions of two-photon quantum walks in waveguide arrays’. Physical Review A, vol 88.
• Cai, X, Wang, J, Strain, MJ, Johnson-Morris, B, Zhu, J, Sorel, M, O'Brien, JL, Thompson, MG & Yu, S 2012, ‘Integrated Compact Optical Vortex Beam Emitters’. Science, vol 338., pp. 363-366
• Shadbolt, PJ, Verde, MR, Peruzzo, A, Politi, A, Laing, A, Lobino, M, Matthews, JCF, Thompson, MG & O'Brien, JL 2012, ‘Generating, manipulating and measuring entanglement and mixture with a reconfigurable photonic circuit’. Nature Photonics, vol 6., pp. 45-49
• Bonneau, D, Lobino, M, Jiang, P, Natarajan, CM, Tanner, MG, Hadfield, RH, Dorenbos, SN, Zwiller, V, Thompson, MG & O'Brien, JL 2012, ‘Fast path and polarization manipulation of telecom wavelength single photons in lithium niobate waveguide devices’. Physical Review Letters, vol 108., pp. 053601
• Bonneau, D, Engin, E, Ohira, K, Suzuki, N, Yoshida, H, Iizuka, N, Ezaki, M, Natarajan, CM, Tanner, MG, Hadfield, RH, Dorenbos, SN, Zwiller, V, O'Brien, JL & Thompson, MG 2012, ‘Quantum interference and manipulation of entanglement in silicon wire waveguide quantum circuits’. New Journal of Physics, vol 14.
• Matthews, JCF & Thompson, MG 2012, ‘QUANTUM OPTICS An entangled walk of photons’. Nature, vol 484., pp. 47-48
• Engin, E, Bonneau, D, Silverstone, J, Wang, J, Ohira, K, Suzuki, N, Yoshida, H, Iizuka, N, Ezaki, M, Natarajan, CM, Tanner, MG, Hadfield, RH, Dorenbos, SN, Zwiller, V, O'Brien, JL & Thompson, MG 2012, ‘Silicon Quantum Photonic Sources and Circuits’. in: 2012 CONFERENCE ON LASERS AND ELECTRO-OPTICS (CLEO). IEEE Computing, NEW YORK
• Xiong, C, Marshall, GD, Peruzzo, A, Lobino, M, Clark, AS, Choi, D-Y, Madden, SJ, Natarajan, CM, Tanner, MG, Hadfield, RH, Dorenbos, SN, Zijlstra, T, Zwiller, V, Thompson, MG, Rarity, JG, Steel, MJ, Luther-Davies, B, Eggleton, BJ & O'Brien, JL 2011, ‘Generation of correlated photon pairs in a chalcogenide As₂S₃ waveguide’. Applied Physics Letters, vol 98., pp. 051101-1 - 051101-3

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