EPSRC NanoPhotonics Portfolio Centre
EPSRC (UK) NanoPhotonics Portfolio Centre
Optoelectronics Research Centre
Zheludev Group
Photonics is rapidly moving into the nano-world promising captivating new fundamental physics, and new applications in highly interacted, low energy consumption devices performing at the quantum leap. We are determined to play an active role in Nanoscale Photonics in the future and either already have commitments, or plan research, or closely watch in the following fields:
- Nano3 Photonics © (NanoWatt, NanoSecond, NanoPhotonics; single nanoparticle, nano-hole, molecule at the SNOM tip, artificial sub-wavelength objects)
- Photonics of Sub-Wavelength (nanoscale field localization and channelling of light)
- Photonics of Electron Beams (generation and control of light with e-beams)
- Photonics of Critical and Discrete (phase change functionality, nanoscale structural transformations between discrete states of matter, nonlinear optics with single photon)
- Photonics of Artificial (meta-materials with electromagnetic properties not available in nature)
- Photonics of the Invisible © (non-radiating, invisible and weakly coupled structures)
- Photonics of Complexity (optics of fractals & quasi-periodic structures, optical vortexes)
- Photonics in the Flatland © (planar chirality & anisotropy, nonlinear optics of structured planar systems)
- Photonics at the Interface & Active Plasmonics © (plasmon optics & switching of plasmons, engineering of boundary conditions, optical “superconductors”)
- Photonics of ‘Forbidden’ (fundamental symmetries of light-matter interaction including enantiomeric symmetries, toroidal electrodynamics)
- Photonics of Self-organized and Induced (self-assembly of nanostructures, light-assisted self assembly and growth)
Nano3 Photonics, Photonics of the Invisible, Photonics in the Flatland, Active Plasmonics, © Nikolay Zheludev, University of Southampton, 2002-2008.
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