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Research project

Physics & Tech of Photonic Metadevices & Metasystems

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Nikolay Zheludev

Professor of Physics & Astronomy
Connect with Nikolay

Email: niz@orc.soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Emeritus Professor Brian Hayden

Connect with Brian

Email: B.E.Hayden@soton.ac.uk

Dr Eric Plum

Principal Research Fellow
Connect with Eric

Email: erp@orc.soton.ac.uk

Professor David Richardson FREng, FRS

Research interests
  • Hollow Core Optical Fibres
  • Optical Communications
  • High Power Fibre Lasers
Connect with David

Email: djr@orc.soton.ac.uk

Professor Otto Muskens

Professor of Physics
Research interests
  • Programmable photonic circuits using ultralow loss phase change materials.
  • Infrared metasurfaces for radiative cooling and defence applications.
  • Deep learning and AI enabled nanophotonic design.
Connect with Otto

Email: O.Muskens@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Optical analog of black and white gravitational holes
Eric Plum, Anton Vetlugin, Baurzhan Salimzhanov, Nikolay Zheludev & Nina Vaidya, 2025, Advanced Photonics
DOI: 10.1117/1.AP.7.2.025001
Type: article
Metamaterial continuous time crystal - A new state of photonic matter
Tongjun Liu, Venugopal Shyamkumar Raskatla, Jun-Yu Ou, Kevin F. MacDonald & Nikolai Zheludev, 2023
Type: conference
Microwatt volatile optical bistability via nanomechanical nonlinearity
Dimitrios Papas, Jun-Yu Ou, Eric Plum & Nikolai Zheludev, 2023, Advanced Science, 10(18)
DOI: 10.1002/advs.202300042
Type: article
Photonic Metamaterial Continuous Time Crystal
Tongjun Liu, Venugopal Shyamkumar Raskatla, Jun-Yu Ou, Kevin F. MacDonald & Nikolai Zheludev, 2023
Type: conference
Metamaterial photonic time crystals and parametric machines
Nikolai Zheludev & Kevin F. MacDonald, 2023
Type: conference