Equipment:
Optical characterisation of materials (thin films) and devices (integrated components) in both linear and nonlinear regime.
Scientific focus and expertise:
Nonlinear optics, integrated photonics, metamaterials, plasmonics, quantum optics, ultra-fast physics, optical computing
Materials class:
III-V, Conductive Oxides, 2D materials, silicon nitride
Research challenge:
Research focus: Ultra-fast all-optical control of VIS-NIR radiations.
Application:
logic units, modulators, switches, metasurfaces, computational materials, low-loss optical busses and connectors (passive devices), active waveguides, resonant cavities, photonic crystals.
Market Sector:
Communication, Electronics & Photonics, Energy, Healthcare
Industry challenge:
The key challenge is to overcome/mitigate fundamental limitations of integrated all-optical devices, namely power consumption, miniaturisation, and operational bandwidth.