Tom Bradley
Department / Institute
RESEARCH PROFILE
Thomas Bradley is a senior researcher in the High Capacity Optical Transmission Lab of the Electro-Optical Communications Group at the Institute for Photonics Integration, TU/e. His current research lies in two key areas of fibre optic sensing and quantum communications. The development of novel optical fibres and fibre post processing techniques can be exploited to support novel optical fibre sensors and advances in quantum communications. He has authored and co-authored several high impact publications in Nature Photonics, Optics Express and has several prestigious post deadline papers at leading optical communications conferences.
Research Interests
Quantum Communications & Security – CV & DV QKD and Quantum Secure Authentication
Novel Optical Fibres – Few Mode, Multicore Fibres, Hollow Core Fibres
Quantum Sensing with Atomic Vapours
Optical Fibre Processing – Tapering, Splicing, Device Development (e.g. Photonics Lanterns)
Quantum Light Sources - Squeezed States, Single Photon Sources
Optical Fibre Fabrication and Theory
Novel optical fibres such as Few Mode Fibre, Multi-core Fibre and Hollow Core Fibres to name a few, in combination with fibre post processing techniques (e.g. fibre tapering) offer exciting new possibilities for classical and quantum sensing of the physical environment.
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Dr Thomas Bradley received his MPhys degree in 2009 and PhD degree in 2014 from the University of Bath, UK. His PhD and earlier career research has focused on the fabrication, characterisation and loading of gas species in both anti-resonant and photonic bandgap hollow core fibres. In September 2021 he started working at Eindhoven University of Technology as a Senior Researcher where his focuses are on using novel optical fibres for quantum communications and security. Prior to this he worked at Optoelectronics research centre (ORC) 2014-2021 as a research fellow and senior research fellow in the micro-structured optical fibre groups. His current research interests include the quantum communications, quantum sensing and novel optical fibres fabrication. In 2014 he was awarded the best early career presentation prize at the EPSRC manufacturing the future conference.
Recent Publications
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T.D. Bradley,S. van der Heide,M. van den Hout,V. van Vliet,M. Bigot-Astruc,A.A. Correa,P. Sillard,C. Okonkwo
Characterisation of optical fibre tapers exploiting off-axis digital holography
(2024) -
Kadir Gümüş,Bin Chen,Thomas Bradley,Chigo Okonkwo
A Simplified Method for Optimising Geometrically Shaped Constellations of Higher Dimensionality
(2023) -
Jonas Krimmer,Vincent van Vliet,Menno van den Hout,Sjoerd van der Heide,Tom Bradley,Chigo M. Okonkwo,Sebastian Randel
Experimental validation of a statistical model of mode-diverse reception in coherent free-space optical communications
(2023) -
Menno van den Hout,Sjoerd van der Heide,Tom Bradley,Amado Velazquez Benitez,Ali Mefleh,Chigo M. Okonkwo
Improving Alignment of Free-Space Coupling of Multi-Mode Fibres using Off-Axis Digital Holography
(2022) -
Menno van den Hout,Sjoerd van der Heide,Tom Bradley,Amado M. Velazquez-Benitez,Nicolas K. Fontaine,Roland Ryf,Haoshuo Chen,Mikael Mazur,Jose Enrique Antonio-López,Juan Carlos Alvarado-Zacarias
Alignment of Free-Space Coupling of Few-Mode Fibre to Multi-Mode Fibre using Digital Holography
arXiv (2022)
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