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Physics & Tech of Photonic Metadevices & Metasystems

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Nikolay Zheludev

Professor of Physics & Astronomy
Other researchers

Emeritus Professor Brian Hayden

Dr Eric Plum

Principal Research Fellow

Professor David Richardson FREng, FRS

Research interests

  • Hollow Core Optical Fibres
  • Optical Communications
  • High Power Fibre Lasers

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.

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

Dielectric metasurfaces for complete control of phase, amplitude and polarization
Tong Wu,
Xueqian Zhang,
Quan Xu,
Eric Plum,
Kaiji Chen,
Yuehong Xu,
Yongchang Lu,
Huifang Zhang,
Ziying Zhang,
Xieyu Chen,
Guanhua Ren,
Li Niu,
Zhen Tian,
Jiaguang Han,
& Weili Zhang
, 2022 , Advanced Optical Materials , 10 (1)
DOI: 10.1002/adom.202101223
Type: article
Nanomechanical photonic metamaterials
Eric Plum
, 2022
Type: conference
Optical superoscillation technologies beyond the diffraction limit
Nikolai I. Zheludev,
& Guanghui Yuan
, 2021 , Nature Reviews Physics , 4 , 16–32
DOI: 10.1038/s42254-021-00382-7
Type: article
Spatio-temporal characterization of ultrashort vector pulses
Apostolos Zdagkas,
Venkatram Nalla,
Nikitas Papasimakis,
& Nikolay I. Zheludev
, 2021 , APL Photonics , 6 (11)
DOI: 10.1063/5.0056066
Type: article
Mechanically tunable terahertz metamaterial perfect absorber
Lewis K. Piper,
H. Johnson Singh,
Jonathan R. C. Woods,
Kai Sun,
Otto L. Muskens,
& Vasilis Apostolopoulos
, 2021 , Advanced Photonics Research , 2 (12) , 2100136
DOI: 10.1002/adpr.202100136
Type: article