Research project

Physics & Tech of Photonic Metadevices & Metasystems

Research groups:

Nanophotonics Group

Electrochemistry
Lead researcher:

Professor Nikolay Zheludev
Other researchers:

Emeritus Professor Brian Hayden,

Dr Eric Plum,

Professor David Richardson,

Professor Otto Muskens
Research funder:

EPSRC
Status:

Not active

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

All-dielectric nanomechanical metamaterials

Artemios Karvounis, Jun-Yu Ou, Behrad Gholipour, Kevin MacDonald & Nikolai Zheludev, 2016

Type: conference

All-optical image recognition and processing with plasmonic metasurfaces

Maria Papaioannou, Eric Plum, Edward Rogers, João Valente & Nikolai Zheludev, 2016

Type: conference

Playing a metamaterial guitar with light

Jun-Yu Ou, Eric Plum & Nikolai Zheludev, 2016

Type: conference

Shape memory metamaterial

Mark Tsuruta, João Valente, Behrad Gholipour, Kevin MacDonald, Eric Plum & Nikolai Zheludev, 2016

Type: conference

Phase-front curvature effects on nematicon generation

2016, Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 33(5), 903-909

DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.33.000903

Type: article