Current PhD Projects
Sören im Sande
Supervisor: Professor Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi
Title: Integrated Single-Photon Sources with Functional Quantum Metasurfaces
To meet the increased demand for bandwidth and speed in information processing, photonic integrated circuits, such as plasmonic or photonic waveguides, should be synergized with optical metasurfaces to largely empower conventional photonic devices. The combination of quantum emitter and on-waveguide metasurfaces yields the opportunity to further develop on-chip integrated quantum photonic applications. Investigations concentrate on the efficient on-demand generation of fast single photons with arbitrary wavefronts at room temperature and the realization of robust on-chip multiphoton-state generation and high-dimensional quantum entanglement.
Paul Conrad Vaagen Thrane
Supervisor: Professor Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi
Title: Dynamic Optical Metasurfaces
By combining plasmonic optical metasurfaces with microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), this project aims to design and fabricate optical metasurfaces that can be controlled dynamically at high frequencies. The project is a collaboration between SDU Nano Optics and SINTEF MiNaLab based in Oslo. By combining MEMS micromirrors fabricated at MiNaLab with plasmonic nanostructures produced at SDU, the collaboration has already demonstrated switchable gratings and lenses, and the plan is to investigate possible applications of this approach within for example beam steering, chromatic effects and polarization control.
Completed PhD projects at SDU Nano Optics
Danylo Komisar
Supervisor: Professor Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi
Projekttitel: Metasurface‐enabled single‐photon generation
The proposed project is concerned with experimental investigations and theoretical studies of the interaction between single photon emitters (various color centers in diamonds) and different plasmonic metasurfaces. The overarching goal is to develop an efficient and repeatable design of a room-temperature plasmonic single-photon source with a Purcell-enhanced emission rate. The project goals include reaching the precise control on polarization state, phase front and direction of the generated single-photon beam. Both fundamental and applied aspects of this research will be assessed from the perspectives of quantum optics and plasmonics.
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Rucha A. Deshpande
Supervisor: Professor Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi
Title:Multipurpose plasmonic phase-gradient metasurfaces
The proposed project is concerned with experimental investigations and theoretical studies of plasmonic phase-gradient metasurfaces enabling broadband polarization-resolved manipulation of optical radiation, with the overall goal being to develop ultra-thin high-numerical aperture optical components operating in visible and near-infrared. Both fundamental and applied aspects of this research will be assessed from the perspectives of plasmon-enabled flat optics. The project goals include the development of experimental procedures and design tools for multipurpose plasmonic metasurfaces, realization of various functionalities using plasmonic metasurfaces and contribution to further progress in understanding of fundamental scattering phenomena involved in light manipulation with gradient arrays of plasmonic nanostructures.
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Professor Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi
Sergejs Boroviks
Supervisor: Professor N. Asger Mortensen
Projelttitel: Kvante-plasmonik og ekstrem lys-stof vekselvirkning
Projektet er dedikeret til undersøgelsen af nanofotoniske fænomener i metalliske strukturer i det såkaldt mesoskopiske område, hvor klassisk elektrodynamik møder kvantemekanik. Plasmoniske tilstande, som understøttes af 2D-elektrongas på en overflade af monokrystallinsk metal (også kendt som akustiske overfladeplasmoner) vil blive udforsket. Både de grundlæggende og anvendte aspekter af dette forskningsprojekt vil blive vurderet fra kvante-plasmonisk perspektiv. Projektet har til hensigt at udvikle eksperimentelle procedurer (fremstilling og karakterisering) og teori til undersøgelse af 2D plasmoniske materialer og at udforske grænser for den klassiske teori ved anvendelse i mesoskopiske systemer.
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Professor N. Asger Mortensen
Martin Thomaschewski
Supervisor: Professor Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi
Title: Optical modulators based on surface plasmons
The project is concerned with experimental investigations and theoretical studies of modulation of radiation propagating in the form of surface plasmon polariton (SPP) modes supported by various plasmonic waveguide configurations, with the overall goal being todevelop stand-alone efficient compact ultrafast and low-energy SPP-based modulators and switches. These plasmonic components should also be interfaced with low-loss photonic waveguides and eventually integrated into integrated circuitry of nanophotonic chips. Both fundamental and applied aspects of this research will be assessed from the perspectives of quantum plasmonics. The project goals include the development of experimental (fabrication and characterization) and computational tools for plasmon-based nanophotonics and the realization of efficient modulation of radiation using electrical signals conducted by the same metal circuitry that supports the propagation of the corresponding SPP modes.
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Professor Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi
Paulo André D. Gonçalves
Supervisor: Professor N. Asger Mortensen
Titel: Novel Two-dimensional Plasmonic Materials in Curved and Engineered Geometries
The PhD project focus on the investigation and research on the nanophotonics of graphene and related 2D materials in engineered nanostructures. Two-dimensional materials have recently emerged as novel platforms to manipulate light-matter interactions at the nanoscale. This project constitutes a theoretical effort to describe and model polaritons (e.g. plasmon polaritons, exciton polaritons, plasmon-exciton polaritons, etc.) in cutting-edge nanophotonic architectures towards new devices based on flatland nano-optics and nanoplasmonics. Finally, this PhD research also includes the exploration of nanophotonic phenomena in the regime between classical electrodynamics and quantum mechanics
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Professor N. Asger Mortensen
Hamidreza Siampour Ashkavandi
Supervisor: Professor Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi
Title: A nanophotonic platform for quantum optical integrated circuits
The project is concerned with experimental investigations and theoretical studies of coupling phenomena and resonant interactions between quantum emitters and surface plasmon polariton (SPP) modes supported by various plasmonic waveguide configurations, with the overall goal being to efficiently couple single quantum emitters to SPP excitations that can also be efficiently coupled with free propagating modes or modes of dielectric waveguides. Both fundamental and applied aspects of this research will be assessed from the perspectives of quantum plasmonics.
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Sebastian Andersen
Supervisor: Professor Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi
Title: Coupling of individual quantum emitters to localized surface plasmons
The project aim is to realize and study resonant coupling of fluorescence from quantum emitters to localized surface plasmon modes supported by metallic nanostructures. The project constitutes the fabrication of plasmonic resonator-quantum emitter systems and experimental study of the interaction between the emitter and plasmonic mode. The plasmonic near-field interaction may modulate the directivity and temporal and spectral emission properties of the quantum emitter with applications within light-matter interfaces for quantum information processing.
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Alexander S. Roberts
Supervisor: Professor Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi
Title: High-temperature plasmonics for thermophotovoltaic applications
This project is a research effort into the tailoring of optical properties of hot surfaces and their use of in thermophotovoltaic (TPV) applications. Traditional photovoltaics (PV) relies on the illumination of a p-n-junction with the broadband spectrum stemming from the solar surface. However, any given solar cell only has a narrow window of efficient conversion of the irradiated energy, while energies outside of this window are either converted inefficiently or not converted at all. While expensive and complicated multi-junction PV-cells do alleviate these shortcomings to a large extent, another solution is to illuminate the PV cells only with light that is most efficiently being converted to electric energy in a so-called thermophotovoltaic cell. TPV cells are well-suited both for the primary conversion of concentrated solar light or other sources of intense heat, and for cogeneration.
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Volodymyr Zenin
Supervisor: professor Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi
Title: Plasmonic waveguiding by metal nanostructures
The project goal is to develop miniature plasmonic waveguides and waveguide components based on strongly confined surface plasmon modes supported by metal nanostructures. The project comprises near-field optical characterization of plasmonic waveguiding by various configurations of metal nanostructures accompanied by theoretical considerations and design of plasmonic waveguide components, aiming at the realization of basic passive and active photonic components at nanoscale.
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Professor Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi