Experimental Quantum Optics
and Photonics Group


Latest News

Demonstration of quantum-enhanced rangefinding robust against classical jamming
Our results demonstrating a correlated pair-source to perform target detection and range-finding to show the resilience of quantum-enhanced lidar to classical jamming have been published in Optics Express.
New Chancellor’s Fellow

Congratulations on Dr Stuart Ingleby becoming the groups newest Chancellors Fellow. Stuart will continue to advance the development of atomic magnetometry, see here for details.

James McGilligan awarded RAEng

Congratulations to Dr James McGilligan on receiving a prestigious Royal Society of Engineering Fellowship to develop technology for quantum navigation. There is a detailed Strathclyde news article available here.

Innovate UK grant

Congratulations to Prof. Erling Riis, Dr. Paul Griffin and Dr. Jonathan Pritchard who are leading work on DISCOVERY, a £10m IUK programme to establish commercial supply chains for quantum computing in collaboration with UK industry.

Recent publications

Distributed network of optically pumped magnetometers for space weather monitoring
Scientific Reports 14, 28229 (2024)
Abstract Spatial variation in the intensity of magnetospheric and ionospheric fluctuations during solar storms creates ground-induced …
778.1 nm distributed feedback lasers for Rb two-photon atomic systems with sub-4 kHz linewidths
APL Photonics 9, 056114 (2024)
A new epitaxial layer design with a double mode expander layer, high refractive index claddings, and an aluminum-free active area has …
A cold-atom Ramsey clock with a low volume physics package
Scientific Reports 14, (2024)
We demonstrate a Ramsey-type microwave clock interrogating the 6.835 GHz ground-state transition in cold 87Rb atoms loaded from a …
A high-flux cold-atom source utilising a grating atom chip
Arxiv (2024)