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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

Silicon erasable waveguides and directional couplers by germanium ion implantation for configurable photonic circuits
Xia Chen, Milan Milošević, Antoine Runge, Xingshi Yu, Ali Z. Khokhar, Sakellaris Mailis, David Thomson, Anna Peacock, Shinichi Saito & Graham Reed, 2020, Optics Express, 28(12), 17630-17642
DOI: 10.1364/OE.394871
Type: article
Ion implantation of germanium into silicon for critical coupling control of racetrack resonators
Milan Milošević, Xia Chen, Xingshi Yu, Nicholas, Joseph Dinsdale, Ozan Aktaş, Swe Oo, Ali Khokhar, David Thomson, Otto Muskens, Harold Chong, Anna Peacock, Shinichi Saito & Graham Reed, 2020, IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, 38(7), 1865-1873
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2020.2967935
Type: article
Laser-driven phase segregation and tailoring of compositionally graded microstructures in Si-Ge nanoscale thin films
Ozan Aktaş, Swe Oo, Stuart, James MacFarquhar, Vinita Mittal, Harold Chong & Anna Peacock, 2020, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 12(8), 9457–9467
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b22135
Type: article
Hot-wire CVD hydrogenated amorphous silicon for multi-layer photonic applications
H.M.H. Chong, S.Z. Oo, R. Petra, A. Tarazona, V. Mittal, A.C. Peacock & G.T. Reed, 2020
DOI: 10.1117/12.2546282
Type: conference
Photonic micro-structures produced by selective etching of laser-crystallized amorphous silicon
G. Martinez-Jimenez, Y. Franz, A.F.J. Runge, M. Ceschia, N. Healy, S.Z. Oo, A. Tarazona, H.M.H. Chong, A.C. Peacock & S. Mailis, 2019, Optical Materials Express, 9(6), 2573-2581
DOI: 10.1364/OME.9.002573
Type: article