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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

Fibre-coupled photonic metadevices
Angelos Xomalis, Davide Piccinotti, Artemios Karvounis, Haojie Zhang, Vassili Savinov, Behrad Gholipour, Yongmin Jung, Anna Peacock, Eric Plum, Kevin F. MacDonald, David Richardson & Nikolay I. Zheludev, 2017
Type: conference
Generation of 11-fs dark pulses via coherent perfect absorption in plasmonic metamaterial
V. Nalla, J. Valente, H. Sun & N.I. Zheludev, 2017
Type: conference
Generation of flying electromagnetic doughnuts via spatiotemporal conversion of transverse electromagnetic pulses
T.A. Raybould, N. Papasimakis, V.A. Fedotov, I. Youngs & N.I. Zheludev, 2017
Type: conference
Intrinsic optical bistability in nanomechanical metamaterials at milliwatt power levels
Jun-Yu Ou, Artemios Karvounis, Kevin F. MacDonald & Nikolay I. Zheludev, 2017
Type: conference
Luminescence of all-dielectric solution-processed perovskite metamaterial
G. Adamo, B. Gholipour, M.D. Birowosuto, H.N.S. Krishnamoorthy, D. Cortecchia, K.C. Lew, J.K. So, N.I. Zheludev & C. Soci, 2017
Type: conference