Experimental Quantum Optics
and Photonics Group
Quantum Technologies
Latest News
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.
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.
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
Advances in unshielded optically pumped alkali magnetometers
Contemporary Physics
1–11
(2026)
The development of optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs) capable of operating in fields up to and beyond Earth’s field has been …
Rapid axial loading of a grating MOT with a cold-atom beam
EPJ Quantum Technology
(2026)
Laser-cooled atoms are increasingly being used to realise practical quantum devices, motivating the development of compact and robust …
Simple tunable phase-locked lasers for quantum technologies
EPJ Quantum Technology
13,
(2026)
In a wide range of quantum technology applications, ranging from atomic clocks to the creation of ultracold samples for atom …