Research project

Complex nanophotonic and plasmonic networks for ultrafast optical devices

Lead researcher:

Professor Otto Muskens
Research funder:

EPSRC
Status:

Not active

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Otto Muskens

Professor of Physics

Research interests

Programmable photonic circuits using ultralow loss phase change materials.
Infrared metasurfaces for radiative cooling and defence applications.
Deep learning and AI enabled nanophotonic design.

Connect with Otto

Email: O.Muskens@soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

Ultrafast perturbation maps as a quantitative tool for testing of multi-port photonic devices

Kevin Vynck, Nicholas J. Dinsdale, Bigeng Chen, Roman Bruck, Ali Z. Khokhar, Scott A. Reynolds, Lee Crudgington, David J. Thomson, Graham T. Reed, Philippe Lalanne & Otto L. Muskens, 2018, Nature Communications, 9(1), 1-10

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-04662-2

Type: article

VO2 thermochromic metamaterial-based smart optical solar reflector

Kai Sun, Christoph A. Riedel, Alessandro Urbani, Mirko Simeoni, Sandro Mengali, Maksim Zalkovskij, Brian Bilenberg, C.H. De Groot & Otto L. Muskens, 2018, ACS Photonics, 5(6), 2280-2286

DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.8b00119

Type: article

Hybrid photon–plasmon coupling and ultrafast control of nanoantennas on a silicon photonic chip

Bigeng Chen, Roman Bruck, Daniel Traviss, Ali Z. Khokhar, Scott Reynolds, David J. Thomson, Goran Z. Mashanovich, Graham T. Reed & Otto L. Muskens, 2017, Nano Letters, 18(1), 610-617

DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b04861

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, 2017, ACS Photonics, 52, 495-501

DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.7b00991

Type: article

Speckle-based hyperspectral imaging combining multiple scattering and compressive sensing in nanowire mats

Rebecca French, Sylvain Gigan & Otto L. Muskens, 2017, Optics Letters, 42(9), 1820

DOI: 10.1364/OL.42.001820

Type: article