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

• Sibson, P, Kennard, JE, Stanisic, S, Erven, C, O’Brien, JL & Thompson, MG, 2017, ‘Integrated silicon photonics for high-speed quantum key distribution’. Optica, vol 4., pp. 172-177
• Wang, J, Paesani, S, Santagati, R, Knauer, S, Gentile, AA, Wiebe, N, Petruzzella, M, O’Brien, JL, Rarity, JG, Laing, A & Thompson, MG, 2017, ‘Experimental quantum Hamiltonian learning’. Nature Physics, vol 13., pp. 551-555
• Piekarek, M, Bonneau, D, Miki, S, Yamashita, T, Fujiwara, M, Sasaki, M, Terai, H, Tanner, MG, Natarajan, CM, Hadfield, RH, O'Brien, JL & Thompson, MG, 2017, ‘High-extinction ratio integrated photonic filters for silicon quantum photonics’. Optics Letters, vol 42., pp. 815-818
• Santagati, R, Silverstone, JW, Strain, MJ, Sorel, M, Miki, S, Yamashita, T, Fujiwara, M, Sasaki, M, Terai, H, Tanner, MG, Natarajan, CM, Hadfield, RH, O'Brien, JL & Thompson, MG, 2017, ‘Silicon photonic processor of two-qubit entangling quantum logic’. Journal of Optics, vol 19.
• Paesani, S, Gentile, AA, Santagati, R, Wang, J, Wiebe, N, Tew, DP, O'Brien, JL & Thompson, MG, 2017, ‘Experimental Bayesian quantum phase estimation on a silicon photonic chip’. Physical Review Letters, vol 118.
• Aguado, A, Hugues-Salas, E, Haigh, PA, Marhuenda, J, Price, AB, Sibson, P, Kennard, JE, Erven, C, Rarity, JG, Thompson, MG, Lord, A, Nejabati, R & Simeonidou, D, 2017, ‘First Experimental Demonstration of Secure NFV Orchestration over an SDN-Controlled Optical Network with Time-Shared Quantum Key Distribution’. in: 2016 42nd European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication (ECOC 2016): Proceedings of a meeting held 18-22 September 2016, Dusseldorf, Germany. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), pp. 512-514
• Day, M, Choonee, K, Cox, D, Thompson, M, Marshall, G & Sinclair, AG, 2017, ‘Continuous-relief diffractive microlenses for laser beam focusing’. Optics Express, vol 25., pp. 26987-26999
• Tyler, NA, Sinclair, GF, Garcia, GV, Gough, G, Barreto, J, Sahin, D & Thompson, MG, 2017, ‘Determining the optical nonlinearity of silicon at cryogenic temperatures for applications in integrated photonics’. in: CLEO: Applications and Technology, CLEO_AT 2017. OSA - The Optical Society
• Paesani, S, Wang, J, Santagati, R, Knauer, S, Gentile, AA, Wiebe, N, Petruzzella, M, Laing, A, Rarity, J, O'Brien, J & Thompson, M, 2017, ‘Experimental quantum hamiltonian learning using a silicon photonic chip and a nitrogen-vacancy electron spin in diamond’. in: 2017 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC): Proceedings of a meeting held 25-29 June 2017, Munich, Germany. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Aguado, A, Salas, EH, Haigh, PA, Marhuenda, J, Price, A, Sibson, P, Kennard, J, Erven, C, Rarity, J, Thompson, M, Lord, A, Nejabati, R & Simeonidou, D, 2017, ‘Secure NFV Orchestration Over an SDN-Controlled Optical Network With Time-Shared Quantum Key Distribution Resources’. Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol 35., pp. 1357-1362

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