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

Nanomechanical photonic metamaterials

Eric Plum, Dimitrios Papas, Jinxiang Li, Tongjun Liu, Jun-Yu Ou, Qiang Zhang, Guoqiang Lan, Kevin F. MacDonald & Nikolai Zheludev, 2021

DOI: 10.48448/f3et-d765

Type: conference

Optical magnetic response without metamaterials

Jinxiang Li, Nikitas Papasimakis, Kevin F. MacDonald & Nikolay I. Zheludev, 2021, APL Photonics, 6(7)

DOI: 10.1063/5.0054752

Type: article

Decay rate enhancement of diamond NV-centers on diamond thin films

Hao Li, Jun-Yu Ou, Vassili Fedotov & Nikitas Papasimakis, 2021, Optics Express, 29(6), 25626-25631

DOI: 10.1364/OE.425706

Type: article

Deeply Sub-Wavelength Non-Contact Optical Metrology of Sub-Wavelength Objects

Carolina Rendon-Barraza, Eng Aik Chan, Guanghui Yuan, Giorgio Adamo, Tanchao Pu & Nikolai Zheludev, 2021, Applied Physics Letters, 6(6)

DOI: 10.1063/5.0048139

Type: article

Optical magnetic field sensing based on metamaterial nanomechanics

Guoqiang Lan, Jun-Yu Ou & Eric Plum, 2021

Type: conference