View all research projects
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

Merging metamaterial and fiber technologies
Jun-Yu Ou, Artemios Karvounis, Angelos Xomalis, Vassili Savinov, Eric Plum, Kevin F. MacDonald & Nikolay I. Zheludev, 2017
Type: conference
Optical range plasmonics around the superconducting transition temperature of niobium metamaterial
C.Y. Liao, H.N.S. Krishnamoorthy, V. Savinov, J.-Y. Ou, C. Huang, G. Adamo, E. Plum, K.F. MacDonald, Y.D. Chong, Otto Muskens, C. Soci, F.V. Kusmartsev, D.P. Tsai & N. Zheludev, 2017
Type: conference
Reconfigurable phase-change photomask for grayscale photolithography
Q. Wang, G.H. Yuan, K.S. Kiang, K. Sun, B. Gholipour, E.T.F. Rogers, K. Huang, S.S. Ang, N.I. Zheludev & J.H. Teng, 2017, Applied Physics Letters, 110
DOI: 10.1063/1.4983198
Type: article
Active and switchable metamaterials
Eric Plum, 2017
Type: conference
Integration of Nonlinear and Switchable Metamaterials with Fiber Technology
Nikolay I. Zheludev, Eric Plum & Kevin F. MacDonald, 2017
Type: conference