Dr Mark Thompson, Deputy Director for the Centre for Quantum Photonics and Senior Research Fellow in Physics, has secured EPSRC funding worth over £245,000 following a successful application to their 'Bright IDEAS Award: the Big Pitch initiative'.

"Bright IDEAS Awards are intended to support genuinely novel and potentially transformative research projects that have the potential to profoundly impact and/or transform a broad area of research. They are awarded to individual researchers with a bright adventurous idea. The investigators are encouraged to be bold and radical with their thinking. New research directions are expected to be pursued which have the potential to lead to high impact outcomes."

Dr Thompson's project, 'Integrated Orbital Angular Momentum Quantum Photonics', aims to merge integrated quantum photonics (IQP) waveguide circuits and orbital angular momentum (OAM) technologies to realise integrated quantum photonic waveguide circuits that can generate, manipulate and detect OAM states of light for chip-to-chip transfer of quantum information.

A more detailed summary of the grant application can be viewed here.