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

Near-infrared linewidth narrowing in plasmonic Fano-resonant metamaterials via tuning of multipole contributions

Wen Xiang Lim, Song Han, Manoj Gupta, Kevin F. MacDonald & Ranjan Singh, 2017, Applied Physics Letters, 111(6)

DOI: 10.1063/1.4997423

Type: article

A Link Between Superconducting Transition and Optical Range Plasmonics of Niobium

C. Y. Liao, H. N. S. Krishnamoorthy, Vassili Savinov, Jun-Yu Ou, C. Huang, G. Adamo, Eric Plum, Kevin F. MacDonald, Y. D. Chong, C. Soci, F. V. Kusmartzev, D. P. Tsai & Nikolay I. Zheludev, 2017

Type: conference

Fibre-integrated, ultrafast classical and non-local quantum switches

Ruixiang Guo, Charles Altuzarra, Angelos Xomalis, Yongmin Jung, Iosif Demirtzioglou, Eric Plum, Kevin MacDonald, Periklis Petropoulos, David Richardson, Cesare Soci & Nikolai Zheludev, 2017

Type: conference

Fibre-optic metadevice for all-optical coherent signal processing at 40 Gbit/s

Angelos Xomalis, Iosif Demirtzioglou, Venkatram Nalla, Eric Plum, Yongmin Jung, Cosimo Lacava, Kevin F. MacDonald, Periklis Petropoulos, David J. Richardson & Nikolai I. Zheludev, 2017

Type: conference

Many-body subradiant excitations in metamaterial arrays

Stewart Jenkins, Janne Ruostekoski, Nikitas Papasimakis, Salvatore Savo & Nikolai Zheludev, 2017, Physical Review Letters, 119(5), 1-6

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.053901

Type: article