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Research project

Laser-Engineered Silicon

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Anna Peacock

Professor of Photonics

Research interests

  • Nonlinear Optics
  • Fibre optics
  • Silicon Photonics
Connect with Anna

Email: acp@orc.soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Harold Chong

Professor of Electronic Engineering
Connect with Harold

Email: hmhc@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Nanophotonics Group

We perform fundamental optical physics and materials research. This is critical for the discovery and development of new and improved optoelectronic technologies.

Research outputs

Low-temperature polycrystalline silicon waveguides for low loss transmission in the near-to-mid-infrared region
Amar N. Ghosh, Stuart J. MacFarquhar, Ozan Aktaş, Than S. Saini, Swe Z. Oo, Harold M.H. Chong & Anna C. Peacock, 2023, Optics Express, 31(2), 1532-1540
DOI: 10.1364/OE.473474
Type: article
Non-isothermal phase-field simulations of laser-written in-plane SiGe heterostructures for photonic applications
Ozan Aktaş, Yuji Yamamoto, Mehmet Kaynak & Anna Peacock, 2021, Communications Physics, 4(1)
DOI: 10.1038/s42005-021-00632-1
Type: article
Laser thermal processing of group IV semiconductors for integrated photonic systems
Ozan Aktaş & Anna Peacock, 2021, Advanced Photonics Research
DOI: 10.1002/adpr.202000159
Type: review
Direct laser writing of graded-index SiGe waveguides via phase segregation
Ozan Aktaş, Yuji Yamamoto, Mehmet Kaynak & Anna Peacock, 2021
DOI: 10.1117/12.2575437
Type: conference
Nonlinear properties of laser-processed polycrystalline silicon waveguides for integrated photonics
Ozan Aktaş, Stuart James MacFarquhar, Swe Oo, Antulio Tarazona, Harold Chong & Anna Peacock, 2020, Optics Express, 28(20), 29192-29201
DOI: 10.1364/OE.400536
Type: article