Research project

Complex nanophotonic and plasmonic networks for ultrafast optical devices

Lead researchers:

Professor Otto Muskens
Research funder:

EPSRC
Status:

Not active

Staff

Lead researchers

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

Research outputs

Ultrafast perturbation maps as a quantitative tool for testing of multi-port photonic devices

Kevin Vynck, Nicholas J. Dinsdale, Bigeng Chen, Roman Bruck, Ali Z. Khokhar, Scott A. Reynolds, Lee Crudgington, David J. Thomson, Graham T. Reed, Philippe Lalanne & Otto L. Muskens, 2018, Nature Communications, 9(1), 1-10

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-04662-2

Type: article

Snapshot fiber spectral imaging using speckle correlations and compressive sensing

Rebecca French, Sylvain Gigan & Otto L. Muskens, 2018, Optics Express, 26(24), 32302-32316

DOI: 10.1364/OE.26.032302

Type: article

Real-time monitoring and gradient feedback enable accurate trimming of ion-implanted silicon photonic devices

Bigeng Chen, Xingshi Yu, Xia Chen, Milan Milošević, David Thomson, Ali Khokhar, Shinichi Saito, Otto Muskens & Graham Reed, 2018, Optics Express, 26(19), 24953-24963

DOI: 10.1364/OE.26.024953

Type: article

Real-time phase trimming of Mach-Zehnder interferometers by femtosecond laser annealing of Germanium implanted waveguides

Xingshi Yu, Bigeng Chen, Xia Chen, Milan Milošević, Shinichi Saito, Graham Reed & Otto Muskens, 2018

DOI: 10.1109/GROUP4.2018.8478752

Type: conference

VO2 thermochromic metamaterial-based smart optical solar reflector

Kai Sun, Christoph A. Riedel, Alessandro Urbani, Mirko Simeoni, Sandro Mengali, Maksim Zalkovskij, Brian Bilenberg, C.H. De Groot & Otto L. Muskens, 2018, ACS Photonics, 5(6), 2280-2286

DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.8b00119

Type: article

Metasurface optical solar reflectors using AZO transparent conducting oxides for radiative cooling of spacecraft

Kai Sun, Christoph A. Riedel, Yudong Wang, Alessandro Urbani, Mirko Simeoni, Sandro Mengali, Maksim Zalkovskij, Brian Bilenberg, C. H. De Groot & Otto L. Muskens, 2018, ACS Photonics, 52, 495-501

DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.7b00991

Type: article

Hybrid photon–plasmon coupling and ultrafast control of nanoantennas on a silicon photonic chip

Bigeng Chen, Roman Bruck, Daniel Traviss, Ali Z. Khokhar, Scott Reynolds, David J. Thomson, Goran Z. Mashanovich, Graham T. Reed & Otto L. Muskens, 2017, Nano Letters, 18(1), 610-617

DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b04861

Type: article