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

Atomic response in the near-field of nanostructured plasmonic metamaterial

Syed Abdullah Aljunid, Eng Aik Chan, Giorgio Adamo, Martial Ducloy, David Wilkowski & Nikolai Zheludev, 2016, Nano Letters, 1-5

DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b00446

Type: article

Toroidal dipole excitations in metamolecules formed by interacting plasmonic nanorods

Derek W. Watson, Stewart D. Jenkins, Janne Ruostekoski, Vassili A. Fedotov & Nikolay I. Zheludev, 2016, Physical Review B, 93(125420), 1-12

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.93.125420

Type: article

Giant nonlinearity in a superconducting sub-terahertz metamaterial

V. Savinov, K. Delfanazari, V. Fedotov & N. Zheludev, 2016, Applied Physics Letters, 108(101107), 1-4

DOI: 10.1063/1.4943649

Type: article

Electromagnetic toroidal excitations in matter and free space

N. Papasimakis, V.A. Fedotov, V. Savinov, T.A. Raybould & N.I. Zheludev, 2016, Nature Materials, 15(3), 263-271

DOI: 10.1038/NMAT4563

Type: article

Focused electromagnetic doughnut pulses and their interaction with interfaces and nanostructures

T.A. Raybould, V. Fedotov, N. Papasimakis, I. Youngs & N. Zheludev, 2016, Optics Express, 24(4), 3150-3161

DOI: 10.1364/OE.24.003150

Type: article