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Research project

Physics & Tech of Photonic Metadevices & Metasystems

Staff

Lead researchers

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

Research outputs

Picosecond all-optical switching and dark pulse generation in a fibre-optic network using a plasmonic metamaterial absorber
Angelos Xomalis, Iosif Demirtzioglou, Yongmin Jung, Eric Plum, Cosimo Lacava, Periklis Petropoulos, David Richardson & Nikolai Zheludev, 2018, Applied Physics Letters, 113, 1-5
DOI: 10.1063/1.5040829
Type: letterEditorial
Reflective chiral meta-holography
Qiu Wang, Eric Plum, Quanlong Yang, Xueqian Zhang, Quan Xu, Yuehong Xu, Jiaguang Han & Weili Zhang, 2018, Light: Science & Applications, 7, 1-9
DOI: 10.1038/s41377-018-0019-8
Type: article
Ultra-confined surface phonon polaritons in molecular layers of van der Waals dielectrics
Alexander Dubrovkin, Bo Qiang, Harish N.S. Krishnamoorthy, Nikolai Zheludev & Qi Jie Wang, 2018, Nature Communications, 9, 1-6
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-04168-x
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
Liquid crystal-filled meta-pixel with switchable asymmetric reflectance and transmittance
2017, Journal of Molecular Liquids
DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2017.12.118
Type: article