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Research project

Quantum Hub (Birmingham)

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Tim Freegarde

Professor
Connect with Tim

Email: Tim.Freegarde@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Peter G.R. Smith

Professor in Electronics & Comp Science
Connect with Peter G.R.

Email: Peter.Smith@soton.ac.uk

Professor James Gates MPhys, PhD

Professor of Photonic Engineering
Connect with James

Email: J.Gates@soton.ac.uk

Dr Peter Horak

Associate Professor
Research interests
  • Theory and simulation of nonlinear and quantum optics
  • Laser pulse propagation and manipulation in optical fibres
  • Quantum technology, integrated optics, optical resonators
Connect with Peter

Email: peh@orc.soton.ac.uk

Professor Corin Gawith

Professor of Optical Engineering
Connect with Corin

Email: corin.gawith@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Grating-induced slow-light enhancement of second harmonic generation in periodically poled crystals
Thomas, Edward Maybour, Devin H Smith & Peter Horak, 2022, Physical Review A, 105(1)
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.105.013517
Type: article
213 nm laser written waveguides in Ge-doped planar silica without hydrogen loading
Paul C. Gow, Qazi Ahmed, Paolo Mennea, Rex Bannerman, Alexander Jantzen, Christopher Holmes, James C. Gates, Corin Gawith & Peter G.R. Smith, 2020, Optics Express, 28(21), 32165-32172
DOI: 10.1364/OE.402762
Type: article
Four-port integrated waveguide coupler exploiting bi-directional propagation of two single-mode waveguides
Mathias, John Weisen, James Gates, Corin Gawith, Peter G.R. Smith & Peter Horak, 2020
DOI: 10.1117/12.2555127
Type: conference
Low-loss wavelength-selective integrated waveguide coupler based on tilted Bragg gratings
Mathias J. Weisen, Matthew T. Posner, James C. Gates, Corin B.E. Gawith, Peter G.R. Smith & Peter Horak, 2019, Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 36(7), 1783-1791
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.36.001783
Type: article
Tilted Bragg gratings as an efficient platform for integrated multimode interference devices
Peter Horak, Mathias, John Weisen, James Gates, Corin Gawith & Peter G R Smith, 2019
DOI: 10.1109/ICTON.2019.8839999
Type: conference
Arrays of strongly-coupled atoms in a one-dimensional waveguide
2017, Physical Review A, 96(9)
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.96.033857
Type: article
Exact electrodynamics versus standard optics for a slab of cold dense gas
2017, Physical Review A, 96(9)
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.96.033835
Type: article