Photonics, Smart Material and Devices (PSMD)

Photonics, Smart Material and Devices (PSMD) focuses on the topics from fundamental physics, materials, devices, systems and applications, which aspires be a leading institute worldwide in advancing fundamental knowledge and applications of photonics in various science and engineering disciplines.

• Optical transmission and intelligent optical networks (The research will be carried out to investigate optical transmission techniques and intelligent optical networking techniques that can meet our information age's ever-increasing network capacity requirement. The focus will be on advanced transmission techniques and optical performance monitoring techniques.)

• Integrated photonics (The research will develop advanced optical micro/nano-fabrication technologies, such as digital UV lithography, precision photoreduction, optical 3D µ-printing. Based on our own developed platforms, we will fuse photonics and optoelectronics with functional bio/nano materials to develop high value-added photonic and biomedical devices and chips, such as high-Q microcavity sensors, plasmonic biosensors, integrated photonic devices and optofluidic biochips.)

• Information photonics (Information photonics is a research and technology field that includes state-of-the-art methods, models, devices, implementation, and applications related to the utilization of optics and photonics in information society. The research will focus on computational optics, free-space optical transmission, single-pixel imaging, digital holography, optical encoding, machine learning in optics and photonics.)

• Laser spectroscopy and imaging (The research will investigate high performance lasers including continuous wave laser, mode locked laser, swept laser and on-chip light sources. Then the developed sources will be used to develop light-matter and light-structure interactions in micro and nanostructures and achieve highly sensitive laser spectroscopy techniques and instrumentations for gas, liquid analysis, optical coherence tomography)

• Photonics sensing (The research will be carried out to study photonic techniques for sensing physical, chemical and biomedical parameters. Optical fiber sensors based on FBG, Rayleigh scattering, Brillion scattering and interferometry will be studied for ultra-sensitive structural monitoring, railway monitoring, power line monitoring, communication network monitoring and earthquake monitoring.)

• Multifunctional smart materials (The research will focus on exploring cutting-edge materials and technologies including organic semiconductors, organo-metal halide hybrid perovskite semiconductors, multifunctional smart materials, as well as their applications in advanced thin-film optoelectronic devices. We will investigate multifunctional smart materials with remarkable magneto-/electro-/thermo-/mechano-/optical responses across the bulk, micro- & nano-scale. Additionally, we will study the fundamental principles of sensing, actuation, transduction mechanisms, energy generation and conversion processes, structural integrity, and environmental sustainability for multidisciplinary applications.)