PhD Opportunities in Experimental Physics in United Kingdom

The University of Bath is offering two exciting PhD opportunities in quantum science within Kristina Rusimova’s established and well-funded NanoBioPhotonics Research Group. The projects explore how light can be used to control individual molecules and investigate their quantum behaviour. Project 1: Loading the Quantum Dice: Controlling Matter One Molecule at a Time . Project 2: A Photon and a Molecule Walk into a Tunnel Junction: Quantum Optics Meets Single-Molecule Science . The opportunities a...

Postgraduate research project at the University of Southampton : Next-generation gas sensing with hollow-core optical fibres . This is a PhD opportunity in physics , photonics , optical fibres , and gas sensing , with strong links to electrical engineering , materials science , chemistry , and environmental science . The project explores how gas composition, pressure, and temperature affect light propagation in hollow-core fibres, including optical loss, phase, dispersion, molecular absorption, ...

PhD project at the University of Southampton in the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) , within the Multimode Photonics Group . This project focuses on next-generation miniaturised optical sources and the design, fabrication, and testing of broadband light-emitting devices with exceptionally wide frequency ranges. The research combines nanophotonics , light-matter interactions , computational simulation , nanofabrication , and optical measurements . Research aims include understanding how nan...

University of Southampton is advertising a PhD project in engineering quantum measurements to test the quantum Zeno effect in levitated mechanics . The project sits in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences and is based in the School of Physics and Astronomy . The research asks whether repeated measurements can slow or inhibit the evolution of a quantum system, using a levitated nanoparticle trapped and measured with light. You will work with Southampton’s non-cavity optical tweezer pl...

PhD opportunity at the University of Southampton in Polarisation Maintaining Hollow-Core Fibre Fabrication , based in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences and the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC). This project focuses on hollow-core fibre technology, polarisation maintaining optical fibres , fibre design, fabrication, and experimental characterisation. The research aims to create a new generation of optical fibres that guide light in air rather than glass, with potential applica...

PhD opportunity in hollow-core fibres for global communications at the University of Southampton , Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, working in the internationally recognised Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) with Microsoft Azure Fiber . This project focuses on photonics , optical physics , experimental physics , materials science , and communications networks . You will help design, fabricate, and test advanced hollow-core optical fibres that guide light through air rather than ...

PhD opportunity at the University of Southampton in Spatiotemporal Control of Ultrafast Multimode Fibre Amplifiers . This project sits in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences and is supervised by Dr Lin Xu and Dr Duanyang Xu . The research focuses on ultrafast fibre lasers , multimode fibre amplifiers , spatiotemporal control , nonlinear optics , and optical physics . The aim is to develop innovative multimode fibre amplifiers that can generate high-energy, ultrashort pulses with tai...

PhD opportunity in nanophotonics at the University of Southampton This project, titled Controlling Light at the Nanoscale with Optical Nanoantennas , is hosted by the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Southampton and linked to the Multimode Photonics Group at the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC). The research focuses on optical nanoantennas, light scattering, electromagnetism, optical physics, computational physics, experimental physics, and nanotechnology. T...

PhD opportunity at the University of Southampton in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences , based at the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) in Southampton, United Kingdom. This project is titled Mid-Infrared Hollow-Core Fibres and Lasers and focuses on photonics , optical fibre design , fibre fabrication , laser development , laser characterisation , experimental physics , and materials science . The research aims to develop mid-infrared hollow-core optical fibres and custom-design...