Research

Photonics Research at St Andrews

The School undertakes research in both theoretical and experimental areas of photonics. We provide links below to the pages maintained by the various research groups.

The Wellcome Trust is funding strategic support at St Andrews to strengthen research at the interface of chemistry, biology, physics and medicine. These would typically be a precursor to more substantive funding.

Ultrashort pulse laser

Laser Physics & Technology

Ultrashort pulse lasers
Nonlinear optics
Photonics innovation centre

Nikon microscope specially adapted for biophotonics

Biophotonics & Optical Manipulation

Biophotonics collaboration
Optical trapping 
Quantitative Bioimaging of cellular signaling
Single-molecule biophysics
Soft Matter Photonics

Semiconductor material engineered in the School for photonic waveguiding

Nanotechnology

Organic semiconductor centre
Nanophotonics
Synthetic Optics
Theory of Quantum Nanomaterials

Polymer light emitters

Semiconductor Optoelectronics

Energy harvesting
Polymer optoelectronics

 

Theoretical metamaterials to create an invisibility cloack

Quantum Optics & Information

Experimental quantum optics
Cold atoms
Quantum optics & information

Passive mm-wave hand with temperature coding

mm-Wave & High-Field ESR

ESR Applications
Millimetre-wave physics and THz technology
High-field EPR
Parametric THz generation
Terahertz instrumentation