Research Focus

• Fibre fabrication, such as multi-kW laser fibres, microstructured & holey fibres and nano-wire fibres.
• New class of LED that can be engineered to emit at desired wavelengths for specific applications such as greenhouse lighting, fresh produce storage, light therapy and smart lighting.
• Micro-optical sensors for environment and intelligent homes, and biomedical monitoring for personal healthcare. Fibre-based photonic systems for power generation and energy delivery.
• Mid-IR photonics such as mid-IR fibre, mid-IR photodetectors based on III-IV and graphene used in sensing, imaging and communications applications.
• Biophotonics technologies like micro/nano-imaging, intravascular optical microscopy, endomicroscopy for early cancer detection, fibre medicine, fibre biosensors, super-resolution microscopy and photo-acoustic imaging for the biomedical and healthcare industry.
• Novel solutions for high-speed wireless indoor communication via visible light using LEDs.
• Integrating fibre grating inscription on the fibre draw towers using ultra-fast laser technology.
• Computational optics in digital holoscope, optical metrology, 3D measurement, imaging and display.

State-of-the-art facilities include:

• Fibre drawing tower capable of silica, holey and soft glass fibre.
• Modified Chemical Vapour Deposition system.
• Preform index profiler for special fibre fabrication such as microstructured fibre, soft glass fibre for applications in fibre sensors and fibre lasers.
• Fibre Bragg grating system, sputtering system, Cytoviva microscopy for photonics III-V materials, photonics nanostructure, mid-IR and THz photonics and optoelectronics applications.
• MOCVD, Laser lift-off system, Integrating spheres for Lighting and Displays applications.
• Near-field nanophotonics lab, quantum plasmonic lab, tranformation optics lab.
• Optical design, laser manufacturing, precision machining and MEMS manufacturing.
• Silicon and III-V material full fabrication and characterization facilities, for mid-IR Si-photonics devices and circuits.