Nanophotonics Laboratory (NPL) is led by Prof. Kuo-Ping Chen at Institute of Imaging and Biomedical Photonics, National Chiao-Tung University(NCTU). Nanophotonics is our core knowledge.
Our lab is focusing on:
Nano-fabrication
Optical properties of metamaterials
Plasmonics
E-beam lithography
Nonlinear Optics
Metamaterials and plasmonics nanoantennas have gathered great attention in recent years. Because the structure is usually smaller than the operating wavelength, metamaterial is a kind of artificial material but could provide very unusual physical property. For example, negative refractive index, cloaking (transformation optics), and modifying the photonic density of states (hyperbolic metamaterials).
Current members include the principal investigator, 14 graduate students (3 Ph.D. and 11 master students).