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

Optomechanical metamaterial nanobolometer

Dimitrios Papas, Jun-Yu Ou, Eric Plum & Nikolai Zheludev, 2021, APL Photonics, 6

DOI: 10.1063/5.0073583

Type: article

Mechanically tunable terahertz metamaterial perfect absorber

Lewis K. Piper, H. Johnson Singh, Jonathan R. C. Woods, Kai Sun, Otto L. Muskens & Vasilis Apostolopoulos, 2021, Advanced Photonics Research, 2(12), 2100136

DOI: 10.1002/adpr.202100136

Type: article

Thermal fluctuations of the optical properties of nanomechanical photonic metamaterials

Jinxiang Li, Dimitrios Papas, Tongjun Liu, Jun-Yu Ou, Kevin F. MacDonald, Eric Plum & Nikolai Zheludev, 2021, Advanced Optical Materials, 10

DOI: 10.1002/adom.202101591

Type: article

Spatio-temporal characterization of ultrashort vector pulses

Apostolos Zdagkas, Venkatram Nalla, Nikitas Papasimakis & Nikolay I. Zheludev, 2021, APL Photonics, 6(11)

DOI: 10.1063/5.0056066

Type: article

Toy model of harmonic and sum frequency generation in 2D dielectric nanostructures

Jie Xu, Vassili Savinov & Eric Plum, 2021, Scientific Reports, 11(1)

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-99567-4

Type: article