Photonic materials and fundamental science
The research focus will be on physics and the characterization of new materials that enable new photonic devices and systems. These include topological photonics, photochemical physics, and plasmonics, which provide new physical mechanisms to obtain new functions. In addition, metamaterials, 2D materials and photoluminescent materials are critical to realizing new functionalities of photonic devices and systems.
Research Focus 1
Photonic devices
The research will focus on devices based on metasurfaces, 2D/3D nanostructures, organic semiconductors and metal halide perovskite semiconductors to enable new functionalities. These include nanophotonic devices, optical imaging devices for digital holography, optical wavefront shaping, phase retrieval and optical metrology; colour management of imaging pipelines; lighting and O/E and E/O conversion devices; Flexible photonics based on photonic materials and photonic crystal structure.
Research Focus 2
Photonic sensing
The research will be carried out to study photonic techniques for sensing physical, chemical and biomedical parameters. Optical fiber sensors based on FBG, Rayleigh scattering, Brillion scattering and interferometry will be studied for ultra-sensitive structural monitoring, railway monitoring, power line monitoring, communication network monitoring and earthquake monitoring.
Research Focus 3
Laser spectroscopy
Precision laser spectroscopy has important applications in environmental monitoring, medical instrumentation and industrial safety protection. Research is being carried out to investigate light-matter and light-structure interactions in micro and nanostructures and develop highly sensitive nonlinear laser spectroscopy techniques and instrumentations for gas and liquid analysis.
Research Focus 4
Photonics and information communications technology
Studies will be carried out to investigate optical transmission techniques and intelligent optical networking techniques that can meet our information age's ever-increasing network capacity requirement. The focus will be on advanced transmission techniques and optical performance monitoring techniques.
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