Research project

Physics & Tech of Photonic Metadevices & Metasystems

Research groups:

Nanophotonics Group

Electrochemistry
Lead researchers:

Professor Nikolay Zheludev
Other researchers:

Emeritus Professor Brian Hayden,

Dr Eric Plum,

Professor David Richardson
Research funder:

EPSRC
Status:

Not active

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Nikolay Zheludev

Professor of Physics & Astronomy

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Other researchers

Emeritus Professor Brian Hayden

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Dr Eric Plum

Principal Research Fellow

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Professor David Richardson FREng, FRS

Research interests

Hollow Core Optical Fibres
Optical Communications
High Power Fibre Lasers

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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

Fibre-optic metadevice for all-optical signal modulation based on coherent absorption

Angelos Xomalis, Iosif Demirtzioglou, Eric Plum, Yongmin Jung, Venkatram Nalla, Cosimo Lacava, Kevin F. MacDonald, Periklis Petropoulos, David Richardson & Nikolai Zheludev, 2018, Nature Communications, 9

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-02434-y

Type: article

Direction-division multiplexed holographic free-electron-driven light sources

Brendan, Paul Clarke, Kevin F. MacDonald & Nikolai Zheludev, 2018, Applied Physics Letters, 112(2)

DOI: 10.1063/1.5008985

Type: article

Optical NP problem solver on laser-written waveguide platform

Maria Ramos Vazquez, Vibhav Bharadwaj, Belen Sotillo, Shu-Zee A. Lo, Roberta Ramponi, Nikolay I. Zheludev, Guglielmo Lanzani, Shane M. Eaton & Cesare Soci, 2018, Optics Express, 26(2), 702-710

DOI: 10.1364/OE.26.000702

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

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