Yan He and Hala Aloufi are presenting their research at UK Semiconductors 2026, hosted by Sheffield Hallam University with the National Epitaxy Facility. Yan will present a poster on metasurface design for the mid-infrared. Hala will present her work on nanowire assemblies for next-generation photonic sensing, developed with her co-supervisor in the School of Engineering,Continue reading “Hala and Yan at UK Semiconductors 2026”
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Reuben Harris returns for a second summer internship
We are pleased to welcome Mr Reuben Harris back to the EQOQI Lab in June for another summer internship. Reuben, an MSci Physics student, previously joined the lab as a Summer Intern in 2025, working on the development and testing of an entanglement generation setup. His project also involved implementing measurements to explore the feasibilityContinue reading “Reuben Harris returns for a second summer internship”
Photonics Seminar at the University of St Andrews
Dr Adetunmise Dada gave the Photonics Seminar at the University of St Andrews today, speaking on engineering quantum light for scalable quantum information technologies, from single photons and entanglement to quantum measurement design. The visit also provided valuable discussion around current challenges in quantum photonics and how measurement-engineered approaches can support future quantum information platforms.Continue reading “Photonics Seminar at the University of St Andrews”
New Manuscript Preprint💫
Congratulations to Yan He on her first manuscript preprint on arXiv, co-authored with Dr Adetunmise Dada. The manuscript, titled “Broadband Achromatic Metalens for the Short-Wave Infrared,” explores the design of a broadband achromatic metalens for applications in the short-wave infrared region. Read the preprint here:https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.06053
BQIT Poster Prize for Jes
Congratulations to our PhD Student, Jesvita Menezes, on winning one of the poster prizes at the Bristol Quantum Information Technologies Workshop (BQIT) 🎉 Jes presented her poster at BQIT:26 the Bristol Quantum Information Technologies Workshop, an annual three-day meeting that brings together leading researchers and industry partners across quantum science and technology.
Welcome Rayah & Jes to EQOQI
🗞 October 2025: Please join me in welcoming @Rayah and @Jes Menezes to EQOQI! 👋 Jes will be pushing our high-dimensional entanglement & quantum information work, and Rayah is jumping into quantum dots related quantum-optics experiments with the team. Welcome aboard! 🎉
Abi Returns to EQOQI!
🗞 October 2025: Some people leave the group. Some come back with unfinished quantum business. We are very happy to welcome Abi back to the EQOQI Lab. Abi first worked with us on a project in 2022, and now returns as an MPhil researcher. It is always good when a former student comes back, it usually meansContinue reading “Abi Returns to EQOQI!”
Radio show pisode featuring EQOQI MSc students
🗞 September 2025: IYQ2025 special: Quantum students, real-world impact (video)New episode featuring EQOQI MSc students discusses hands-on quantum optics and career paths. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xVuh94mgyM
Weak-Measurement Paper Published in PRL!
🗞 February 2025: 🚀 Exciting news! Our latest paper, published today in Physical Review Letters, presents a novel way to boost interferometry precision using Weak Value Amplification! Achieving attosecond timing resolution with common optics? Yes, it’s possible! 🔬✨💪📄 Read it here: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.080802
Dr Dada reflects on teaching
🗞 January 2025: Dr Dada reflects on teaching the latest cohort in the Experimental Techniques in Quantum Optics course at UofG. Link to post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/adetunmisedada_quantumoptics-academia-quantumtechnology-activity-7278391729727148032-F9OR
Our paper ‘Quantum-enhanced time-domain spectroscopy’ is published in Science Advances!
🗞 January 2025: 🎉 Excited to share our latest work, Quantum-enhanced time-domain spectroscopy, published in Science Advances! 🚀Huge thanks to: Dionysis Adamou, L. Hirsch, T. Shields, S. Yoon, J. M. R. Weaver, D. Faccio, M. Peccianti, L. Caspani, and Matteo Clerici. 🙌
Ben Wins Best Thesis Award 🏆
🗞 July 2024: Congratulations to Benjamin Cichos for graduating with a First Class Honours and winning the award for Best Physics Bachelor Thesis Project for his work with EQOQI Lab on self-guided quantum tomography! We celebrate your well deserved success, keep shining!
Latest SWIR Hollow-core Fibre Preprint on Arxiv
🗞 May 2024: Check out our latest preprint on arXiv, showcasing unparalleled polarisation purity in Hollow-Core Optical Fiber at Near-and Mid-IR Wavelengths for QKD and beyond!🔗https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2405.02993
SAMEE Awards recognition to Dr Adetunmise Dada for inspiring diversity in STEM!
🗞 August 2023: Congratulations, Dr. Dada, on your well-deserved recognition at the SAMEE Awards! It’s wonderful to hear about your achievement and the support you’ve received from the teams at Jambo! Radio Scotland, The Science Show, @IoPScotland, and others. A big shoutout to all the nominees and awardees as well. Enjoy the celebration! 🎉🥳.
EQOQI Lab welcomes Abi!
🗞 November 2022: We are excited to welcome Abigail Whelan to the team! She will be working on ‘entangled-based quantum communication in free space’ as a part of her final year honours project.
Paper on weak-value amplification under strong Gaussian noise accepted in PRA
📜 October 2022: Our #paper “Autocorrelative weak-value amplification and simulating the protocol under strong Gaussian noise” is Accepted for publication in Physical Review A!
New metasurface paper published in ACS photonics!
📜 September 2022: Our paper: “An all-dielectric metasurface polarimeter” is published in ACS Photonics. 🥳
The Science Show with Dr Dada Comes to Jambo!Radio Scotland
📻 August 2022: Tunmise will be hosting a new STEM radio show live on Jambo!Radio Scotland. The Science Show with Dr Dada explores everything to do with science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in plain language, through a series of interesting interviews, news highlights, reports, music and much more. The programme also showcases the people behind STEM-related activitiesContinue reading “The Science Show with Dr Dada Comes to Jambo!Radio Scotland”
EQOQI Lab Welcomes Wenqin and Haoyu💫
🗞 June 2022: We are excited to welcome Wenqin and Haoyu to the team! They will be working on quantum metrology and quantum communications, respectively.
New Arxiv preprint! 📄
📜 May 2022: Our paper “Auto-correlative weak-value amplification under strong noise background” is now available on ArXiv.org! arXiv:2203.15231 [quant-ph]