We offer many different opportunities for postgraduate study and research in photonics.
Research programmes
Available PhD projects:
- Hybrid monolithic lasers for quantum-enabled position, navigation & timing
- Colloidal quantum dot supracrystals for bright microscopic light sources
- Unbreakable photonics-based encryption using hybrid electronic-optical systems
- 3D assembly of photonic systems with nanoscale precision
- Neuromorphic photonic-electronic technologies for sensing and in-sensor processing systems
- Hybrid laser-polymer chips for optical computing and smart sensing
- Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) optical wireless communications
- Smart robotic skin with embedded photonic nerve systems
- Quantum Chips: integrating micron-scale optoelectronic components for scaling of quantum technologies on-chip
- Optoelectronic neural probes for in vivo manipulation of neural circuits
- 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)
- Lasers for quantum-enabled position, navigation, and timing technologies
- Neuromorphic photonic spiking processing systems for light-enabled AI
Centre for Doctoral Training
The Institute of Photonics currently supervises projects from the following Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT):
CDT in Applied Photonics: This CDT funds both Engineering Doctorates (EngDs) – innovative doctorates where the student is based in a company working in collaboration with a university – and conventional PhDs based in university labs.
Available EngD projects: