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 five days of exciting science, with 35 speakers, 20 video-posters and >850 registered participants, MLQ2021 is now over. If you have missed it, don’t panic: most of the talks have been recorded and are available on our YouTube channel.

Only a few days left to register, before the conference starts. We have a list of outstanding tutorials, invited and contributed talks! Check in out on https://mlq2021.org/

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…

We are organising an online conference about machine learning and advanced signal processing applied to quantum technology: www.mlq2021.org. We are accepting submissions – looking forward to exciting contributions!

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!

Dan will be joining us straight after finishing his Masters in Chemistry with Materials and Nanotechnology here at Heriot-Watt University. During his PhD he will be working on twisted quantum heterostructures made from 2D materials. Welcome to the group Dan!