IN THIS SECTION
Group Members
Prof James Wilkinson
email: jsw@orc.soton.ac.uk
tel: +44(0) 23 8059 2792
Dr Senthil Ganapathy
email: smg@orc.soton.ac.uk
tel: +44(0) 23 8059 3836
Dr Fan Zhang
email: faz@orc.soton.ac.uk
tel: +44(0) 23 8059 3136
Balpreet Ahluwalia
email: bsa@orc.soton.ac.uk
tel: +44(0) 23 8059 3155
Ping Hua
email: ph2@orc.soton.ac.uk
tel: +44(0) 23 8059 3133
David Sager
email: das@orc.soton.ac.uk
tel: +44(0) 23 8059 2060
Neil Sessions
email: nps@orc.soton.ac.uk
tel: +44(0) 23 8059 3143
RESEARCH STUDENTS
Yuwapat Panitchob
email: yup@orc.soton.ac.uk
tel: +44(0) 23 8059 3163
Angela Brown
email: awb@orc.soton.ac.uk
tel: +44(0) 23 8059 3954
Hamish Hunt
email: hch@orc.soton.ac.uk
tel: +44(0) 23 8059 3163
Ananth Subramanian
email: ans@orc.soton.ac.uk
tel: +44(0) 23 8059 3155
PhD projects with this group
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Integrated Photonic Devices
Current projects
Waveguide Coupled Microsphere Functions
![]() Resonant microsphere |
Resonant cavities are key components in photonic circuits, providing feedback, wavelength selectivity, energy storage to allow dispersion control and enhanced nonlinearity, resonant filtering, waveguiding with low bend radius and ultra-low threshold lasing. Planar waveguides will present an ideal platform to realize many of these functions. The current interests include the coupling of light from the planar waveguides into the microspheres by exciting the Whispering Gallery Modes (WGM) and the fabrication of various platforms for micro/nano positioning the microspheres onto the planar waveguides either physically or chemically. Devices incorporating microspheres and planar waveguides for various applications such as wavelength filtering, multiplexing/demultiplexing, switching, sensing, lasing etc. are being designed, fabricated and characterized.
Copyright University of Southampton 2006

