Our research aims to develop and exploit key enabling quantum technologies for emerging applications in quantum information science. This includes photon sources, interfaces and detectors, for work spanning applied and fundamental aspects of quantum communication, from QKD prototypes to teleportation, in the lab and in real world networks. Underlying this we have activities in quantum metrology to better characterise these emerging quantum technologies and applications as well as exploiting them for sensing and imaging, for example, in biophotonics.
Research Themes
Quantum Cryptography
Quantum Networks
Quantum Photonics
Photon Detectors
Quantum Sensing
QTech News
“The SECOQC quantum key distribution network in Vienna”, co-authored by our group leaders Rob Thew and Hugo Zbinden, and "The quantum technologies roadmap: a European community view", co-authored by Rob Thew, have both been voted in IOP’s ten…
Javier has joined the Quantum Technologies team for a PhD, in partnership with ID Quantique. He received his Masters in Telecom Engineering from the University of Vigo, where he worked with Marcos Curty on quantum key distribution.
Shashank has joined the Quantum Technologies team for a PhD working on Quantum Key Distribution. He received his Masters in Optical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, and has previously worked at the Indian Space…
Our new results from heralded distribution of entanglement are out now in Optica Quantum! In this work we experimentally demonstrated a scheme for distributing polarization-entangled photons for future quantum networks. To do this, we started with…
Loïc has joined the Quantum Technologies team for a PhD, in partnership with ID Quantique. He received his Masters in Applied Physics from INSA Toulouse, and in Materials Science and Engineering from Seoul National University.
Mingsong has joined the Quantum Technologies team for a PhD. He received his Masters from Imperial College, where he worked with Michael Vanner on silica microresonators as quantum resources.
Hugo Zbinden, quantum technology pioneer and one of our Group Leaders, has retired after 30 years at the Department of Applied Physics. We wish Hugo all the best for his retirement and new adventures!
Rebecka Sax has received her PhD for work related to Quantum Key Distribution Systems.
Thesis Title: Fast and Practical Integrated Quantum Communication Systems
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