Professor Mark Fox

Department of Physics and Astronomy

Professor of Optical Physics

Professor Mark Fox
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mark.fox@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 22 24527

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Professor Mark Fox
Department of Physics and Astronomy
E14
Hicks Building
Hounsfield Road
Sheffield
S3 7RH
Research interests
  • Solid-state quantum optics
  • Semiconductor photonics
  • Ultrafast laser spectroscopy
Publications

Books

  • Fox AM (2010) Optical properties of solids. Oxford: Oxford University Press. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Fox AM (2006) Quantum Optics. Oxford University Press. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Fox AM (2001) Optical Properties of Solids. Oxford University Press. RIS download Bibtex download

Journal articles

Chapters

Conference proceedings papers

Datasets

Preprints

  • Phillips CL, Brash AJ, Godsland M, Martin NJ, Foster A, Tomlinson A, Dost R, Babazadeh N, Sala EM, Wilson L , Heffernan J et al (2023) Purcell-Enhanced Single Photons at Telecom Wavelengths from a Quantum Dot in a Photonic Crystal Cavity, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Martin NJ, Mehrabad MJ, Chen X, Dost R, Nussbaum E, Hallett D, Hallacy L, Foster A, Clarke E, Patil PK , Hughes S et al (2023) Topological and conventional nano-photonic waveguides for chiral integrated quantum optics, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Siampour H, O'Rourke C, Brash AJ, Makhonin MN, Dost R, Hallett DJ, Clarke E, Patil PK, Skolnick MS & fox M (2022) Observation of large spontaneous emission rate enhancement of quantum dots in a broken-symmetry slow-light waveguide, Research Square Platform LLC. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Siampour H, O'Rourke C, Brash AJ, Makhonin MN, Dost R, Hallett DJ, Clarke E, Patil PK, Skolnick MS & Fox AM (2022) Observation of large spontaneous emission rate enhancement of quantum dots in a broken-symmetry slow-light waveguide, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Sheldon SJ, Brash AJ, Skolnick MS, Fox AM & Iles-Smith J (2022) Optical Spin Initialisation and Readout with a Cavity-Coupled Quantum Dot in an In-Plane Magnetic Field, arXiv. View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Sortino L, Zotev PG, Phillips CL, Brash AJ, Cambiasso J, Marensi E, Fox AM, Maier SA, Sapienza R & Tartakovskii AI (2021) Bright single photon emitters with enhanced quantum efficiency in a two-dimensional semiconductor coupled with dielectric nano-antennas, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Phillips CL, Brash AJ, McCutcheon DPS, Iles-Smith J, Clarke E, Royall B, Skolnick MS, Fox AM & Nazir A (2020) Photon Statistics of Filtered Resonance Fluorescence, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mehrabad MJ, Foster AP, Dost R, Fox AM, Skolnick MS & Wilson LR (2019) Chiral topological photonics with an embedded quantum emitter, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Brash AJ, Iles-Smith J, Phillips CL, McCutcheon DPS, O'Hara J, Clarke E, Royall B, Mørk J, Skolnick MS, Fox AM & Nazir A (2019) Light Scattering from Solid-State Quantum Emitters: Beyond the Atomic Picture, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Foster AP, Hallett D, Iorsh IV, Sheldon SJ, Godsland MR, Royall B, Clarke E, Shelykh IA, Fox AM, Skolnick MS , Itskevich IE et al (2018) Tunable photon statistics exploiting the Fano effect in a waveguide, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Feng Q, Dizayee W, Li X, Score DS, Neal JR, Behan AJ, Mokhtari A, Alshammari MS, Al-Qahtani MS, Blythe HJ , Chantrell RW et al (2018) Enhanced magnetic properties in ZnCoAlO caused by exchangecoupling to Co nanoparticles, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hurst DL, Price DM, Bentham C, Makhonin MN, Royall B, Clarke E, Kok P, Wilson LR, Skolnick MS & Fox AM (2018) Non-Reciprocal Transmission and Reflection of a Chirally-Coupled Quantum Dot, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hallett D, Foster AP, Hurst DL, Royall B, Kok P, Clarke E, Itskevich IE, Fox AM, Skolnick MS & Wilson LR (2017) Electrical control of nonlinear quantum optics in a nano-photonic waveguide, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Liu F, Brash AJ, O'Hara J, Martins LMPP, Phillips CL, Coles RJ, Royall B, Clarke E, Bentham C, Prtljaga N , Itskevich IE et al (2017) High Purcell factor generation of coherent on-chip single photons, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coles RJ, Price DM, Royall B, Clarke E, Skolnick MS, Fox AM & Makhonin MM (2016) Path-dependent initialization of a single quantum dot exciton spin in a nano-photonic waveguide, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Brash AJ, Martins LMPP, Barth AM, Liu F, Quilter JH, Glassl M, Axt VM, Ramsay AJ, Skolnick MS & Fox AM (2016) Dynamic vibronic coupling in InGaAs quantum dots, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Prtljaga N, Bentham C, O'Hara J, Royall B, Clarke E, Wilson LR, Skolnick MS & Fox AM (2016) On-chip interference of single photons from an embedded quantum dot and an external laser, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Liu F, Martins LMP, Brash AJ, Barth AM, Quilter JH, Axt VM, Skolnick MS & Fox AM (2016) Ultrafast Depopulation of a Quantum Dot by LA-phonon-assisted Stimulated Emission, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coles RJ, Price DM, Dixon JE, Royall B, Clarke E, Fox AM, Kok P, Skolnick MS & Makhonin MN (2015) Chirality of nanophotonic waveguide with embedded quantum emitter for unidirectional spin transfer, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Brash AJ, Martins LMPP, Liu F, Quilter JH, Ramsay AJ, Skolnick MS & Fox AM (2015) High-fidelity initialization of long-lived quantum dot hole spin qubits by reduced fine-structure splitting, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Dizayee W, Ying M, Fox AM & Gehring GA (2015) Magnetic Circular Dichroism Measurements of Thin Films, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Quilter JH, Brash AJ, Liu F, Glässl M, Barth AM, Axt VM, Ramsay AJ, Skolnick MS & Fox AM (2014) Phonon-assisted population inversion of a single quantum dot, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Prtljaga N, Coles RJ, OHara J, Royall B, Clarke E, Fox AM & Skolnick MS (2014) Monolithic Integration of a Quantum Emitter with a Compact On-chip Beam-splitter, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Garcia-Deniz AZ, Murzyn P, Fox AM, Kundys DO, Wells J-PR, Whittaker DM, Skolnick MS, Krauss TF & Roberts JS (2014) Ultrafast reflectivity modulation in AlGaAs/InAlGaAs multiple quantum well photonic crystal waveguides, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coles RJ, Prtljaga N, Royall B, Luxmoore IJ, Fox AM & Skolnick MS (2013) Waveguide-Coupled Photonic Crystal Cavity for Quantum Dot Spin Readout, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Feng Q, Blythe HJ, Fox AM, Qin X-F, Xu X-H, Heald SM & Gehring GA (2013) Grain boundary ferromagnetism in vanadium-doped In$_2$O$_3$ thin films, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Feng Q, Blythe HJ, Fox AM, Gehring GA, Jiang F-X, Xu X-H & Heald SM (2013) Contrasting behavior of the structural and magnetic properties in Mn- and Fe-doped In$_2$O$_3$ films, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Quilter JH, Coles RJ, Ramsay AJ, Fox AM & Skolnick MS (2013) Enhanced photocurrent readout for a quantum dot qubit by bias modulation, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Luxmoore IJ, Toro R, Del Pozo-Zamudio O, Wasley NA, Chekhovich EA, Sanchez AM, Beanland R, Fox AM, Skolnick MS, Liu HY & Tartakovskii AI (2012) III-V quantum light source and cavity-QED on Silicon, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Luxmoore IJ, Wasley NA, Ramsay AJ, Thijssen ACT, Oulton R, Hugues M, Kasture S, Gopal AV, Fox AM & Skolnick MS (2012) Interfacing a quantum dot spin with a photonic circuit, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Godden TM, Quilter JH, Ramsay AJ, Wu Y, Brereton P, Luxmoore IJ, Puebla J, Fox AM & Skolnick MS (2012) Fast preparation of single hole spin in InAs/GaAs quantum dot in Voigt geometry magnetic field, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Godden TM, Quilter JH, Ramsay AJ, Wu Y, Brereton P, Boyle SJ, Luxmoore IJ, Puebla-Nunez J, Fox AM & Skolnick MS (2011) Coherent optical control of the spin of a single hole in a quantum dot, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ramsay AJ, Godden TM, Boyle SJ, Gauger EM, Nazir A, Lovett BW, Gopal AV, Fox AM & Skolnick MS (2011) Effect of detuning on the phonon induced dephasing of optically driven InGaAs/GaAs quantum dots, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Godden TM, Boyle SJ, Ramsay AJ, Fox AM & Skolnick MS (2010) Fast high fidelity hole spin initialization in a single InGaAs quantum dot, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ramsay AJ, Godden TM, Boyle SJ, Gauger EM, Nazir A, Lovett BW, Fox AM & Skolnick MS (2010) Phonon induced Rabi frequency renormalization of optically driven single InGaAs/GaAs quantum dots, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Collins RJ, Clarke PJ, Fernandez V, Gordon KJ, Makhonin MN, Timpson JA, Tahraoui A, Hopkinson M, Fox AM, Skolnick MS & Buller GS (2010) Quantum key distribution system in standard telecommunications fiber using a short wavelength single-photon source, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gehring GA, Blythe HJ, Feng Q, Score DS, Mokhtari A, Alshammari M, Qahtani MSA & Fox AM (2010) On Using Magnetic and optical methods to determine the size and characteristics of nanoparticles embedded in oxide semiconductors, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Score DS, Alshammari M, Feng Q, Blythe HJ, Fox AM, Gehring GA, Quan Z-Y, Li X-L & Xu X-H (2009) Magneto-optical properties of Co/ZnO multilayer films, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ramsay AJ, Boyle SJ, Godden TM, Kolodka RS, Khatab AFA, Oliveira JBB, Skiba-Szymanska J, Liuc H-Y, Hopkinson M, Fox AM & Skolnick MS (2009) Towards coherent optical control of a single hole spin: Rabi rotation of a trion conditional on the spin state of the hole, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ramsay AJ, Gopal AV, Gauger EM, Nazir A, Lovett BW, Fox AM & Skolnick MS (2009) Damping of Exciton Rabi Rotations by Acoustic Phonons in Optically Excited InGaAs/GaAs Quantum Dots, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Boyle SJ, Ramsay AJ, Bello F, Liu HY, Hopkinson M, Fox AM & Skolnick MS (2008) Two qubit conditional quantum logic operation in a single self-assembled quantum dot, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Behan AJ, Mokhtari A, Blythe HJ, Score D, Xu X-H, Neal JR, Fox AM & Gehring GA (2007) Two magnetic regimes in doped ZnO corresponding to a dilute magnetic semiconductor and a dilute magnetic insulator, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ramsay AJ, Boyle SJ, Kolodka RS, Oliveira JBB, Skiba-Szymanska J, Liu HY, Hopkinson M, Fox AM & Skolnick MS (2007) Fast optical preparation, control and read-out of single quantum dot spin, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Sanvitto D, Laussy FP, Bello F, Whittaker DM, Fox AM, Skolnick MS, Tahraoui A, Fry PW & Hopkinson M (2006) Single-photon nonlinearity of a semiconductor quantum dot in a cavity, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Xu X, Behan A, Ziese M, Blythe H, Neal J, Mokhtari A, Ibrahim M, Fox A & Gehring G (2006) Carrier-induced ferromagnetism in n-type ZnMnAlO and ZnCoAlO thin films at room temperature, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Neal J, Behan A, Ibrahim R, Blythe HJ, Ziese M, Fox A & Gehring G (2006) Room temperature magneto-optics of ferromagnetic transition-metal doped ZnO thin films, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Qahtani MSA, Alshammari M, Blythe HJ, Fox AM, Gehring GA, Andreev N, Chichkov V & Mukovskii Y () Magnetic and Optical properties of strained films of multiferroic GdMnO3. View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Makhonin MN, Dixon JE, Coles RJ, Royall B, Clarke E, Skolnick MS & Fox AM () On-chip resonantly-driven quantum emitter with enhanced coherence. View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
Teaching activities
  • PHY102 - Magnetism
  • PHY332 – Atomic and laser physics
  • PHY475 – Optical Properties of solids
  • Second year physics tutorials
Professional activities and memberships
  • Head of the Semiconductor Physics Research Group (LDSD)
  • Tutor for fourth year physics
  • Fellow of the Institute of Physics
  • Fellow of the Optical Society of America