Our research in optical physics covers a wide range of areas, from fundamental wave phenomena and quantum systems to liquid crystals, ultracold atomic gases, quantum optics, nanofabricated metamaterials and drawing of optical fibres.
In addition to a network of international collaborations in Europe and the US, we have close connections with groups in the Universities of Bristol, Cambridge, Oxford, Strathclyde, RHUL and UCL and we participate in the Collaborative Computational Project 2. Within Southampton, we work closely with the other research groups in the area of Quantum Coherence, with the EPSRC Centre for Nanostructured Photonic Metamaterials, Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC), e-Science Centre, the Institute for Complex Systems Simulations and the Schools of Physics and Astronomy, and Chemistry.