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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

Optical anapoles
Vassili Savinov, Nikitas Papasimakis, D.P. Tsai & Nikolai Zheludev, 2019, Communications Physics, 2(1), 1-4
DOI: 10.1038/s42005-019-0167-z
Type: article
Giant photoinduced chirality in thin film Ge2Sb2Te5
2019, Physica Status Solidi (RRL) Rapid Research Letters, 13(12), 1-7
DOI: 10.1002/pssr.201900449
Type: article
Coherent perfect absorption of single photons in a fibre network
A.N. Vetlugin, Ruixiang Guo, Angelos Xomalis, Salih Yanikgonul, Giorgio Adamo, Cesare Soci & Nikolai Zheludev, 2019, Applied Physics Letters, 115(19)
DOI: 10.1063/1.5118838
Type: article
Fiber-integrated phase-change reconfigurable optical attenuator
Tiago Martins, Behrad Gholipour, Davide Piccinotti, Kevin F. MacDonald, Anna Peacock, Orlando Frazão & Nikolai Zheludev, 2019, APL Photonics, 4
DOI: 10.1063/1.5116000
Type: article
Nonlinear control of coherent absorption and its optical signal processing applications
Angelos Xomalis, Yongmin Jung, Iosif Demirtzioglou, Cosimo Lacava, Eric Plum, David Richardson, Periklis Petropoulos & Nikolai Zheludev, 2019, APL Photonics, 4(10), 1-9
DOI: 10.1063/1.5123547
Type: article