Research

For some examples of the areas we research, please click on one of the four groups above: Applications, GaN Materials, III-V Optoelectronic Devices and Laser Engineering.

Publications

Each member of staff has a full list of publications. The link si found under their photo on their own staff page.

Expertise

Our core expertise is research, photonics, problem solving.

Our technical strengths are in:

• Laser and LED sources
• Solid-state lasers
• Diamond Raman lasers
• Semiconductor Disk Lasers (SDL, also known as VECSELs, Vertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers, or as OPSLs, Optically Pupmed Semiconductor Lasers)
• arrays of microLEDs
• nanoLEDs
• microfabrication of optoelectronics
• Hybrid organic-inorganic photonics
• Optogenetcis and biophotonics

We have expertise in the use, manipulation and design of a range of importnat materials which help us make functioning sources:

• Semiconductors
• Diamond
• Polymers
• Quantum dots
• Processing
• Designing
• Etching
• Printing
• Direct writing

Applications

Our work is always directed towards practical applications and we have had successful projects in:

• medical
• sensing
• life sciences
• visible light communicaitons
• free space optical communications
• instrumentation
• defense
• lifescience applications
• lithography
• microscopy
• optical trapping
• and many others