Research project

Building Large Quantum States Out of Light

Research groups:
Lead researcher:

Professor Peter G.R. Smith
Other researchers:

Dr James Gates,

Professor Corin Gawith
Research funder:

EPSRC
Status:

Not active

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Peter G.R. Smith

Professor in Electronics & Comp Science

Connect with Peter G.R.

Email: Peter.Smith@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Dr James Gates MPhys, PhD

Principal Research Fellow

Connect with James

Email: J.Gates@soton.ac.uk

Professor Corin Gawith

Professorial Fellow-Enterprise

Connect with Corin

Email: corin.gawith@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Photonic Systems, Circuits and Sensors Group

Our group’s research in photonics is helping the development of critical global technologies.

Research outputs

High-birefringence direct UV-written waveguides for use as heralded single-photon sources at telecommunication wavelengths

Matthew T. Posner, Thomas Hiemstra, Paolo Mennea, Rex Bannerman, Ulrich B. Hoff, Andreas Eckstein, W.S. Kolthammer, Ian Walmsley, Devin H. Smith, James C. Gates & Peter G.R. Smith, 2018, Optica, 26(19), 24678-24686

DOI: 10.1364/OE.26.024678

Type: article

Pressure sensing based on ratiometric Bragg grating loss in a planar silica diaphragm platform

Alexander Jantzen, Paul C. Gow, Alan Gray, Senta Scholl, James Gates, Peter Smith, Lewis Boyd & Christopher Holmes, 2018

Type: conference

High-birefringence direct-UV-written silica waveguides for heralded single-photon sources at telecom wavelengths

M.T. Posner, Rex Bannerman, D.H. Smith, P.L. Mennea, J.C. Gates & P.G.R. Smith, 2017

Type: conference

Chip-based array of near-identical, pure, heralded single-photon sources

Justin B. Spring, Paolo L. Mennea, Benjamin J. Metcalf, Peter C. Humphreys, James C. Gates, Helen L. Rogers, Christoph Soller, Brian J. Smith, W. Steven Kolthammer, Peter G.R. Smith & Ian A. Walmsley, 2016, Optica, 4(1), 90-96

DOI: 10.1364/OPTICA.4.000090

Type: article