We offer many different opportunities for postgraduate study and research in photonics.
Research programmes
Available PhD/EngD projects
- Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) optical wireless communications
- Advance diversity techniques for underwater optical communication and sensing (EngD)
- Novel laser sources in the mid-infrared spectral region for security and sensing applications (EngD)
- High-performance ultrashort pulse laser sources for advanced applications in sensing, imaging, and precise timing (EngD)
- MicroLED-based lab-on-chip platform (EngD)
- 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
Centres 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.