I am a DPhil student in the ICON group supervised by Dr Joe Goodwin. Using trapped ions, we are aiming to generate remote (i.e. long distance) entanglement of qubits, to enable scalable quantum networks that can be used for fault tolerant quantum computing. We are doing this by integrating microcavities into our ion traps to capture the single photons emitted by the ions. I now work mostly on new ways of interfacing with our ions using light, with a particular focus on the manipulation of light through multimode fibres for both readout and addressing purposes.
I previously spent four years studying physics at Imperial College London. For my master's project, we developed an external cavity diode laser for locking a deep UV laser used to capture and cool neutral AlF molecules to ultracold (mili/microkelvin) temperatures. I also spent a summer working on photonic quantum systems, characterising a heralded single photon source.