Welcome from Synthetic Optics Group at the University of St Andrews

Today optics is pervasive and light is used for encoding, transmitting, storing and revealing information. Our work is focused on developing adaptable and reconfigurable platforms for controlling the behaviour of light at the nanoscale in time and space, with extreme accuracy and flexibility. 

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  Flexible Plasmonic Filter

  We demonstrate a guided mode resonance filter on the end of a collimated fibre output.
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  Metaflex

  Metamaterials on a flexible substrate
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  Luneburg Lens

   The Luneburg lens is a gradient index lens that focuses light from all incident directions
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  Slotted Photonic Crystals

  SPhCs support slow light propagation and in general allow dispersion management of light propagating mainly in air

We use a broad range of tools and techniques, including plasmonics and photonic crystals, graphene and polymeric microfluidics, adopting both traditional lithographic approaches and hybrid bottom-up strategies. The range of covered applications is equally wide, including also fields like communications, energy harvesting and biomedical research, electromagnetic cloaking, perfect imaging and nonlinear optics.