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Research project

Physics & Tech of Photonic Metadevices & Metasystems

Staff

Lead researcher

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

Electrochemistry

A well-established world-class group researching energy charge transfer that affects many facets of life.

Nanophotonics Group

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

Quantum, Light and Matter Group

Our research group examines the connections between physics, chemistry and engineering.

Research outputs

Topological insulator metamaterial with giant circular photogalvanic effect
Xinxing Sun, Giorgio Adamo, Mustafa Eginligil, Harish N.S. Krishnamoorthy, Nikolai Zheludev & Cesare Soci, 2021, Science Advances, 7(14)
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abe5748
Type: article
Measures of space-time non-separability of electromagnetic pulses
Yijie Shen, Apostolos Zdagkas, Nikitas Papasimakis & Nikolai Zheludev, 2021, Physical Review Research
Type: article
Deep learning enabled design of complex transmission matrices for universal optical components
Nicholas J. Dinsdale, Peter R. Wiecha, Matthew Delaney, Jamie Reynolds, Martin Ebert, Ioannis Zeimpekis, David J. Thomson, Graham T. Reed, Philippe Lalanne, Kevin Vynck & Otto L. Muskens, 2021, ACS Photonics, 8(1), 283-295
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.0c01481
Type: article
Artificial intelligence for photonics and photonic materials
Davide Piccinotti, Kevin F. MacDonald, Simon A. Gregory, Ian J. Youngs & Nikolai Zheludev, 2020, Reports on Progress in Physics, 84
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6633/abb4c7
Type: review
Germanium-on-carborundum surface phonon-polariton infrared metamaterial
Bo Qiang, Alexander M. Dubrovkin, Harish N.S. Krishnamoorthy, Qian Wang, Nikolai Zheludev & Qi Jie Wang, 2020, Advanced Optical Materials
Type: article