Yashar Alizadeh is joining us after submitting his PhD thesis in the spectroscopy and crystal field analysis of rare-earth doped low-site symmetry crystals at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He’ll be working on developing quantum memory with crystals stoichiometric in rare-earth ions.

Huge congratulations to Mauro who has been awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship and is due to take up his new post in October 2021 – ‘Semiconductors with a Twist: Engineering Programmable Quantum Materials’. Through this fellowship Mauro aims to engineer new quantum materials based on 2D semiconductor heterostructures. To address fundamental questions about…

Sheena has joined Heriot-Watt University after completing her Masters in Physics from India. During her PhD she will be working on engineering scalable coherent coupling in quantum dots. Welcome to the QPL group Sheena!

Wei is joining us as a post-doc right after submitting his PhD thesis in Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers at the University of Manchester. He will be working on the development of a telecom quantum memory with rare earth doped crystals – welcome to the group Wei!

One of our recent articles “A bright source of telecom single photons based on quantum frequency conversion,” has been featured on the cover of Applied Physics Letters!! We think being selected for the “cover” is a big deal so many congratulations to everyone who contributed – a sterling effort all round!

“Congratulations to Shun who has been awarded an Marie Curie Fellowship to pursue exciton transport at the quantum level using two-dimensional heterostructures. We are looking forward to this exciting project!”

On March 15th, 2021, the new project “Connectorising Integrated Quantum Photonics Devices” has kicked off.  This project was awarded in the framework of the Canada-UK call for quantum technologies 2020 and is a collaboration of the Quantum Photonics Lab with the UK company Duality Quantum Photonics and the Canadian Partners at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) and OptoElectronic Components (OEC). Its ambitious goal…

After a lot of hard work and a successful viva, Raphael Picard is now a Doctor! Congratulations Raphael! Team celebrations were slightly different this year with two teams competing to complete an online escape room challenge in the fastest time – well done everyone, much fun was had by all!

On September 1st, 2020, the new European FET-Open project QUROPE has kicked off. Its ambitious goal is to build a quantum repeater architecture using on-demand photonic entanglement (find out more at https://www.qurope-team.eu/ or https://twitter.com/qurope_eu). The quantum photonic lab is a partner of the QUROPE consortium and will be working to develop a broadband solid-state quantum…

Congratulations to Zak who has been chosen as the winner of the EPS Postgraduate Research 2nd Year Prize!! – Well done Zak, it’s well deserved!