Research Areas

Photonic crystal fibres:

• Design & Fabrication


• Nonlinear PCF
• Photonic crystal modelling
• Low contrast bandgap fibre
• Low loss hollow-core PCF
• Supercontinuum generation
• Gas-laser devices
• Dispersion control
• Optical solitons
• PCF based photon sources for quantum information

Fibre transitions and tapering:

• Fibre transitions and tapering
• Splice-less interfacing of PCF
• Fibre inflation
• Interfacing to PCFs with submicron cores
• Nonlinear optics in tapered fibres
• Evanescent Interactions in Fibre Tapers
• Structured fiber tapers

Plasmonics:

• THz Plasmonics
• Near-field optical microscopy of plasmonic nanostructures

Porous Silicon:

• Overview
• Optical multilayers
• Acoustic devices

Computational and Theoretical Nonlinear Optics:

• Solitons and nonlinear optics in PCFs
• Nonlinear dynamics of light in micro- and nano-structured materials
• Solitary waves and vortices: Existence, stability and interaction

Funding

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)

Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)