National Hub in High Value Photonic Manufacturing

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Sir David Payne KBE CBE FRS FREng

Head of School

Research interests

Many and varied across photonics, particularly in optical fibre design and fabrication, optical materials, optical sensing, and high-power fibre lasers.

Connect with Sir David

Email: dnp@orc.soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Francesco Poletti

Professorial Fellow-Research

Connect with Francesco

Email: frap@orc.soton.ac.uk

Professor Goran Mashanovich

Personal Chair

Connect with Goran

Email: g.mashanovich@soton.ac.uk

Professor Jayanta Sahu

Professorial Fellow-Research

Connect with Jayanta

Email: jks@orc.soton.ac.uk

Professor Michalis Zervas PhD

Professor of Optical Communications

Connect with Michalis

Email: mnz@soton.ac.uk

Professor Gilberto Brambilla

Professor

Connect with Gilberto

Email: gb2@orc.soton.ac.uk

Professor Nikolay Zheludev

Professor of Physics & Astronomy

Connect with Nikolay

Email: niz@orc.soton.ac.uk

Professor Martin Charlton

Prof of Photonics and Nano-Electronics

Connect with Martin

Email: mdbc@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Professor Graham Reed FREng, FIET, FOSA, FSPIE, FEOS

Professor of Silicon Photonics

Connect with Graham

Email: g.reed@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Nanophotonics Group

We perform fundamental optical physics and materials research. This is critical for the discovery and development of new and improved optoelectronic technologies.

Research outputs

Roadmap on multimode photonics

Ilaria Cristiani,

Cosimo Lacava,

Georg Rademacher,

Benjamin Puttnam,

Ruben Luis,

Cristian Antonelli,

Antonio Mecozzi,

Mark Shtaif,

Daniele Cozzolino,

Davide Bacco,

Leif Katsuo Oxenløwe,

Jian Wang,

Yongmin Jung,

David J. Richardson,

Siddharth Rmachandran,

Massimiliano Guasoni,

Katarzyna Krupa,

Denis Kharenko,

Alessandro Tonello,

Stefan Wabnitz,

David Phillips,

Daniele Faccio,

Tijmen Euser,

Shangran Xie,

Philip Russell,

Daoxin Dai,

Yu Yu,

Periklis Petropoulos,

Frederic Gardes,

& Francesca Parmigiani

, 2022 , Journal of Optics , 24 (8)

DOI: 10.1088/2040-8986/ac7a48

Type: article

Compact nano-void spectrometer based on a stable engineered scattering system

Qi Sun,

Przemyslaw Ludwik Falak,

Tom Vettenburg,

Timothy Lee,

David Phillips,

Gilberto Brambilla,

& Martynas Beresna

, 2022 , Photonics Research , 10 (10) , 2328--2336

DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.465322

Type: article

Facilitating uniform large-scale MoS₂, WS₂ monolayers and their heterostructures through van der Waals Epitaxy

Kevin Chung-Che Huang,

He Wang,

Yameng Cao,

Edwin Weatherby,

Filipe Richheimer,

Sebastian Wood,

Shan Jiang,

Daqing Wei,

Yongkang Dong,

Xiaosong Lu,

Pengfei Wang,

Tomas Polcar,

& Daniel W. Hewak

, 2022 , ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces , 14 (37) , 42365 -- 42373

DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c12174

Type: article

Low energy switching of phase change materials using a 2D thermal boundary layer

Jing Ning,

Yunzheng Wang,

Ting Yu Teo,

Kevin Chung-Che Huang,

Ioannis Zeimpekis,

Katrina Morgan,

Siew Lang Teo,

Daniel W. Hewak,

Michel Bosman,

& Robert E. Simpson

, 2022 , ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces , 14 (36) , 41225--41234

DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c12936

Type: article

Deep learning-assisted focused ion beam nanofabrication

Oleksandr Buchnev,

James Grant-Jacob,

R.W. Eason,

Nikolai Zheludev,

Benjamin Mills,

& Kevin F. MacDonald

, 2022 , Nano Letters , 22 (7) , 2734--2739

DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c04604

Type: article