Ultrafast quantum optics and optical metrology

Vacancies

We are always pleased to hear from prospective graduate students or post-docs. Please contact Ian Walmsley if you are interested in joining our team.

People

Ian Walmsley

Chair of Experimental Physics
Joshua Nunn

Fixed Term Departmental Lecturership
Marco Barbieri

ITN Marie Curie Fellow
Steven Kolthammer

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Charles Bourassin-Bouchet

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Animesh Datta

Post Doctoral Associate
Duncan England

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Adam Wyatt

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Tim Bartley

DPhil student
Tessa Champion

DPhil student
Gaia Donati

ITN Marie curie Studentship
Ilaria Gianani

DPhil Student
Peter Humphreys

DPhil Student
Ka Chung Lee

DPhil student
Matthias Mang

DPhil Student
Benjamin Metcalf

DPhil student
Patrick Michelberger

Student
Andreas Schiavi

DPhil Student
Michael Sprague

DPhil Student and Clarendon Scholar
Justin Spring

DPhil student
Nicholas Thomas-Peter

DPhil Student
XianMin Jin

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Publications

Continuous phase stabilization and active interferometer control using two modes
JOURNAL OF MODERN OPTICS 59 (2012) 42-45
G Jotzu, TJ Bartley, HB Coldenstrodt-Ronge et al.
Adaptive slit beam shaping for direct laser written waveguides.
Opt Lett 37 (2012) 470-472
PS Salter, A Jesacher, JB Spring et al.
Compact Continuous-Variable Entanglement Distillation
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 108 (2012) ARTN 060502
A Datta, L Zhang, J Nunn et al.
Compact continuous-variable entanglement distillation
Physical Review Letters 108 (2012)
A Datta, L Zhang, J Nunn et al.
Macroscopic non-classical states and terahertz quantum processing in room-temperature diamond
Nature Photonics (2011)
KC Lee, BJ Sussman, MR Sprague et al.
Macroscopic non-classical states and terahertz quantum processing in room-temperature diamond
Nature Photonics 6 (2012) 41-44
KC Lee, BJ Sussman, MR Sprague et al.
On-chip, photon-number-resolving, telecom-band detectors for scalable photonic information processing
Physical Review A 84 (2011) 060301(R)
T Gerrits, N Thomas-Peter, JC Gates et al.
Accuracy measurements and improvement for complete characterization of optical pulses from nonlinear proc...
OPTICS EXPRESS 19 (2011) 25355-25366
AS Wyatt, A Gruen, PK Bates et al.
Quantum discord and quantum computing - An appraisal
International Journal of Quantum Information 9 (2011) 1787-1805
A Datta, A Shaji
Real-World Quantum Sensors: Evaluating Resources for Precision Measurement
PHYS REV LETT 107 (2011) 113603
N Thomas-Peter, BJ Smith, A Datta et al.
Lateral shearing interferometry of high-harmonic wavefronts
OPT LETT 36 (2011) 1746-1748
DR Austin, T Witting, CA Arrell et al.
Single-Photon-Level Quantum Memory at Room Temperature
PHYS REV LETT 107 (2011) 053603
KF Reim, P Michelberger, KC Lee et al.
Single-photon-level quantum memory at room temperature
Physical Review Letters 107 (2011)
KF Reim, P Michelberger, KC Lee et al.
Integrated photonic sensing
New Journal of Physics 13 (2011)
N Thomas-Peter, NK Langford, A Datta et al.
Entangling Macroscopic Diamonds at Room Temperature
Science 334 (2011) 6060
KC Lee, MR Sprague, BJ Sussman et al.
From molecular control to quantum technology with the dynamic Stark effect
FARADAY DISCUSS 153 (2011) 321-342
PJ Bustard, GR Wu, R Lausten et al.
Testing Hardy's nonlocality proof with genuine energy-time entanglement
PHYS REV A 83 (2011) 042105
G Vallone, I Gianani, EB Inostroza et al.
A new transducer receive transfer function calibration method
IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control 58 (2011) 1159-1168
MR Sprague, E Chérin, FS Foster
Extending electron orbital precession to the molecular case
PHYS REV A 83 (2011) 043419
HEL Martay, DG England, DJ McCabe et al.
Interpreting quantum discord through quantum state merging
PHYS REV A 83 (2011) 032323
V Madhok, A Datta
Vectorial Phase Retrieval for Linear Characterization of Attosecond Pulses
PHYS REV LETT 107 (2011) 133902
O Raz, O Schwartz, D Austin et al.
Quantum metrology with imperfect states and detectors
PHYS REV A 83 (2011) 063836
A Datta, LJ Zhang, N Thomas-Peter et al.
Single-photon-level memory at room temperature
2011 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics: Laser Science to Photonic Applications, CLEO 2011 (2011)
KF Reim, P Michelberger, KC Lee et al.
Quantum random bit generation using stimulated Raman scattering
Optics Express 19 (2011) 25173-25180
PJ Bustard, D Moffatt, R Lausten et al.
Single-photon-level memory at room temperature
2011 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO EUROPE/EQEC 2011 (2011)
KF Reim, P Michelberger, KC Lee et al.
On-chip, photon-number-resolving, telecommunication-band detectors for scalable photonic information proc...
Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics 84 (2011)
T Gerrits, N Thomas-Peter, JC Gates et al.
Photonic quantum memories
2011 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO EUROPE/EQEC 2011 (2011)
IA Walmsley, J Nunn, N Langford et al.
Quantum metrology with imperfect states and detectors
Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics 83 (2011)
A Datta, L Zhang, N Thomas-Peter et al.
Entangling Macroscopic Diamonds at Room Temperature
Science 334 (2011) 1253-1256
KC Lee, MR Sprague, BJ Sussman et al.
High-performance single-photon generation with commercial-grade optical fiber
PHYS REV A 83 (2011) 031806
C Soller, O Cohen, BJ Smith et al.
Space-time coupling of shaped ultrafast ultraviolet pulses from an acousto-optic programmable dispersive ...
J OPT SOC AM B 28 (2011) 58-64
DJ McCabe, DR Austin, A Tajalli et al.
Femtosecond to attosecond light pulses from a molecular modulator
NAT PHOTONICS 5 (2011) 665-672
S Baker, IA Walmsley, JWG Tisch et al.
Spatio-temporal focusing of an ultrafast pulse through a multiply scattering medium
NAT COMMUN 2 (2011) 447
DJ McCabe, A Tajalli, DR Austin et al.
Measuring sub-Planck structural analogues in chronocyclic phase space
OPT COMMUN 283 (2010) 855-859
DR Austin, T Witting, AS Wyatt et al.
Nonlinear interferometry with Bose-Einstein condensates
PHYS REV A 82 (2010) 053636
AB Tacla, S Boixo, A Datta et al.
Quantum versus Classical Correlations in Gaussian States
PHYS REV LETT 105 (2010) 030501
G Adesso, A Datta
Coherent optical memory with GHz bandwidth
2010 CONFERENCE ON LASERS AND ELECTRO-OPTICS (CLEO) AND QUANTUM ELECTRONICS AND LASER SCIENCE CONFERENCE (QELS) (2010)
KF Reim, J Nunn, VO Lorenz et al.
Amplification of Impulsively Excited Molecular Rotational Coherence
PHYS REV LETT 104 (2010) 193902
PJ Bustard, BJ Sussman, IA Walmsley
Entanglement quantification from incomplete measurements
NEW J PHYS 12 (2010) 033042
G Puentes, A Datta, A Feito et al.
Experimental quantum-enhanced estimation of a lossy phase shift
NAT PHOTONICS 4 (2010) 357-360
M Kacprowicz, R Demkowicz-Dobrzanski, W Wasilewski et al.
Optimal experiment design for minimal tomography
2010 CONFERENCE ON LASERS AND ELECTRO-OPTICS (CLEO) AND QUANTUM ELECTRONICS AND LASER SCIENCE CONFERENCE (QELS) (2010)
J Nunn, BJ Smith, G Puentes et al.
Atmospheric channel characteristics for quantum communication with continuous polarization variables
Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics 98 (2010) 635-640
B Heim, D Elser, T Bartley et al.
Complete Characterization of Weak-Homodyne Photon-Number-Resolving Detectors
2010 CONFERENCE ON LASERS AND ELECTRO-OPTICS (CLEO) AND QUANTUM ELECTRONICS AND LASER SCIENCE CONFERENCE (QELS) (2010)
HB Coldenstrodt-Ronge, G Puentes, O Cohen et al.
Applications of Raman Scattering in Quantum Technologies
XXII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY 1267 (2010) 37-38
KF Reim, P Bustard, KC Lee et al.
Design of bright, fiber-coupled and fully factorable photon pair sources
NEW J PHYS 12 (2010) 093027
LE Vicent, AB U'Ren, R Rangarajan et al.
Resolution of the relative phase ambiguity in spectral shearing interferometry of ultrashort pulses.
Opt Lett 35 (2010) 1971-1973
DR Austin, T Witting, IA Walmsley
COMPONENTS FOR MULTI-PHOTON NON-CLASSICAL STATE PREPARATION AND MEASUREMENT
LASER SPECTROSCOPY (2010) 148-157
G Puentes, L Zhang, H Coldenstrodt-Ronge et al.
Quantum memory in an optical lattice
PHYS REV A 82 (2010) 022327
J Nunn, U Dorner, P Michelberger et al.
Optimal experiment design for quantum state tomography: Fair, precise, and minimal tomography
PHYS REV A 81 (2010) 042109
J Nunn, BJ Smith, G Puentes et al.
Comparing phonon dephasing lifetimes in diamond using Transient Coherent Ultrafast Phonon Spectroscopy
DIAM RELAT MATER 19 (2010) 1289-1295
KC Lee, BJ Sussman, J Nunn et al.
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