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PhD Projects
New projects for 2009 start!
Postgraduate studentships in Nanostructured photonic metamaterials
We are looking to appoint four PhD Students to research various aspects of Photonic Metamaterials More...
Project information for 2010
Dr Bill Brocklesby
- Nanoscale ultrafast x-ray sources and applications
- Nanoscale nonlinear optics
- Nonlinear microscopy of biological systems
Dr Neil Broderick
- Optical Snakes and Ladders
- Nonlinear Effects in Fibre Bragg gratings
- Single-cycle pulse generation using tapered fibres
- Next Generation of Photonic Crystal Fibres
Prof W A Clarkson
Advanced Solid-State Sources Group
- Power-scaling concepts for fibre lasers and amplifiers
- Cryogenic hybrid fibre-bulk lasers
- High power superfluorescent fibre sources and their applications
- Laser induced refrigeration
Prof RW Eason
- Growth of thin film waveguides by Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD)
- Micro- and nanostructuring of nonlinear optical materials (With Dr Sakellaris Mailis)
- Femtosecond laser processing of optical materials (with Dr Christos Grivas)
Professor Dan Hewak
Novel Glass and Waveguide Group
- New Glasses for Optical Fibre Devices
- Beyond Flash Memory: Advanced chalcogenide thin films and nano devices for phase-change memory applications
- Solar Power: Next generation renewable energy from chalcogenide thin film solar cells (with Dr. C C Huang)
- Next Generation Optical Fibre: Infrared optical fibre for lasers, medical, aerospace and sensing applications
- Micro Glass: Microspheres, discs and wires for radically new integrated optical devices (with Professor M Zervas and J Wilkinson)
- Nanoparticles in ancient Chinese glazes and their applications in today’s photonic devices (with Professor H Rutt)
Dr Peter Horak
Computational Nonlinear Optics Group
- Multimode effects in nonlinear optical fibres
- Pulse manipulation in semiconductor-filled hollow fibres
- Nonlinear optics in gas-filled capillaries
Dr Morten Ibsen
Fibre Bragg Gratings Group
Bragg grating design, device fabrication and tunable Bragg grating technologies
- Design and applications of low-noise high-power single-frequency Bragg grating all-fibre lasers for new wavelength regimes.
- Femtosecond-writing of periodic structures in new materials (in collaboration with the Physical Optics Group).
- Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) and biomedical imaging.
- Bragg gratings for use in medical applications.
Dr Yoonchan Jeong
- Advanced ultrafast fibre laser sources and their frequency conversion
- Coherent beam combination and synthesised laser beams
- Brillouin spectroscopy for bio/nano objects
Prof P G Kazansky
- Poled glasses and optical glass waveguides with large second-order nonlinearities
- Fibre atom waveguides and atomic integrated circuits
- Direct write of 3D photonic structures
Dr Jacob MacKenzie
- Planar Waveguide Visible Lasers
- Cryogenically cooled Fibre-Bulk Hybrid Lasers
Dr Sakellaris Mailis
- Nonlinear optical micro-resonators: (Sakellaris Mailis)
- Tailoring of refractive index profiles in optical waveguides (Sakellaris Mailis and Robert W. Eason)
- Fabrication and characterization of lab-on-a-chip type of devices based on micro-structured opto-fluidic lithium niobate structures for biochemical applications (Sakellaris Mailis and Collin Sones)
- Development of scanning probe electric field sensors based on electro-optic, piezoelectric lithium niobate micro-structured tips (Sakellaris Mailis)
Dr Tracy Melvin
- Integrated optical devices for bioanalysis
- Direct detection of DNA sequences in serum for rapid diagnosis of cancers and other diseases
- Optical sorting and identification of stem cells
Prof T P Newson
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- Distributed fibre optic sensing
Professor Johan Nilsson
High-power fibre devices
- SMART fibre lasers
- Single-frequency fibre amplifiers and synthetic-aperture lasers
- Cladding-pumped Raman fibre devices
- Nonlinear wavelength conversion of high-power fibre sources
- Cladding-pumped Raman fibre amplifiers with dynamically controllable ultra-broadband gain
Dr Periklis Petropoulos
- Applications of new fibre technologies to modern telecommunication systems
Prof D J Richardson
- Next generation pulsed high power fibre lasers and amplifiers and their applications. (In conjunction with Dr Shaiful Alam/Dr Malinowski)
- Ultrahigh peak and average power femtosecond fibre lasers for coherent X-ray generation. (In conjunction with Dr Jonathan Price)
- Nonlinear optics in multimode fibres. (In conjunction with Dr Peter Horak/Dr Shaiful Alam)
- Extreme nonlinear optics driven by a fibre laser system. (In conjunction with Dr Jonathan Price)
- The physics and applications of optical combs – from precision time, frequency and spatial measurements to Terahertz signal synthesis (In conjunction with Dr Radan Slavik)
- Optical processing and transmission in future optical networks (In conjunction with Dr Periklis Petropoulos)
- The physics and applications of phase sensitive optical signal processing (In conjunction with Dr Periklis Petropoulos)
- The fabrication and applications of holey/microstructured fibres (In conjunction with Dr M. Petrovich/Mr J. Hayes)
- Ultra-low loss photonic bandgap fibres
- Investigation of nonlinear optical effects in novel hollow core fibres
Dr Jayanta Sahu
Silica Fibre Fabrication Group
- Development of bismuth doped fibres for ultra-broadband light sources.
- Innovative fibre fabrication technique for next generation high-power fibre laser applications.
Dr Pier Sazio
- Microstructured optical fibres as templates for the deposition of functional materials such as silicon and germanium to add new electronic/photonic degrees of freedom
- Fabrication of next generation holey fibre devices with semiconductor based photonics; metallo-dielectric plasmonic effects, electronic function, engineered nonlinearities, (with Dr Anna Peacock)
Dr Anna Peacock
- Fiberised semiconductor devices for nonlinear photonics and applications
Professor David Shepherd
- Novel, high-power, nonlinear optical sources and applications
- Intelligent light sources
Professor Peter Smith
- Planar waveguide devices for WDM applications
- Tunable planar Bragg gratings using liquid crystals
- Development of periodically poled nonlinear optical materials for efficient frequency conversion into the visible and mid-infrared
- Contact-bonded waveguides for lasers and non-linear optics
- DLP technology for adaptive optics
Professor James Wilkinson
Integrated Photonics Devices Group
- Integrated Plasmonic Raman Sensors
- High-Density Photonic Circuits
Prof M N Zervas
- Fibre DFB lasers
- Inverse scattering techniques for grating characterisation and design
Professor Nikolay Zheludev
Nanophotonics & Meta-materials Group
- Photonic Metamaterials
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