We offer many different opportunities for postgraduate study and research in photonics.
Research programmes
Available PhD/EngD projects
- Sychronizable laser pulse sources for multi-photon imaging applications
- uLED-based lab-on-chip platform
- Novel laser designs to exploit low-cost-per-Watt pumping of Ti:sapphire for application in sensing, imaging, and precise timing technologies
- Novel laser sources in the mid-infrared spectral region for security and sensing applications
- Innovative and manufacturable approaches to exploiting low cost-per-Watt diode-laser pumping of Ti:sapphire
- Photo-chemical adaptive integrated circuits for next generation neuromorphic computing
- Technologies for optogenetic neural interfacing
- Neuromorphic photonic-electronic integrated circuits for fast and efficient SPIKE-based information PROcessing (SPIKEPRO)
- Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) optical wireless communications with deep ultraviolet lasers
- Lasers for quantum-enabled position, navigation, and timing technologies
- Neuromorphic photonic spiking processing systems for light-enabled AI
Engineering Doctorate Centres
The Institute of Photonics currently supervises projects from three Engineering Doctorate Centres:
- Industrial Doctorate Centre in Optics and Photonics Technologies - is an innovative scheme where the student is based within a company while undertaking their training
- Centre for Doctoral Training in Diamond Science and Technology