Professor John Rarity
B.Sc.(Sheff.), Ph.D.(C.N.A.A.)
Current positions
Professor of Optical Communication Systems
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering
Contact
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Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Copy of Costed extension: Evaluation of Photonics Integration for Gas Sensing
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical EngineeringDates
15/07/2024 to 30/11/2024
Additional capital funding at 100% FEC for Comms hub R100901
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical EngineeringDates
01/12/2023 to 31/03/2024
Additional capital funding at 100% FEC for QUANTIC hub R100955
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical EngineeringDates
01/12/2023 to 31/03/2024
QUANTIC consumables award: Rangefinding Chip
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical EngineeringDates
01/12/2023 to 30/11/2024
QUANTIC consumables award: Silicon chips
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical EngineeringDates
01/12/2023 to 30/11/2024
Thesis supervisions
Integrated quantum photonics
Supervisors
Low cost, short range free space quantum cryptography for consumer applications
Supervisors
The interplay between quantum foundations and quantum technologies
Supervisors
GaN Distributed Bragg Reflector Cavities for Sensing Applications
Supervisors
The Interaction of Light with Charged Quantum Dots and Applications to Entanglement Generation
Supervisors
Modifying Laser Written 3D Photonic Structures by Post-processing
Supervisors
Novel mid-infrared quantum photonic component design in silicon
Supervisors
Characterising Quantum Phenomena
Supervisors
Making excitonic materials for soft nanophotonics from supramolecular building blocks
Supervisors
Graph states in large-scale integrated quantum photonics
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
04/07/2025Coexistence of Entanglement-based Quantum Channels with DWDM Classical Channels over Hollow Core Fiber in a Three Node Quantum Communication Network
2025 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC)
Deterministic teleportation and universal computation without particle exchange
Journal of Physics Communications
Experimental Tests of Invariant Set Theory
Physica Scripta
Methane sensing via unbalanced nonlinear interferometry using a CMOS camera and undetected mid-infrared light
Applied Physics Letters
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Dr Sima Bahrani
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