Multimode Photonics Lab

Research

Metasurfaces are planar metamaterials providing a subwavelength control of all light properties thanks to engineerable nanoelements. We are developing metasurfaces for high-power lasers, as well as expanding on deep tech applications, such as augmented reality, photonic integrated circuits and biosensors.

By creating correlations between the spatial and temporal degrees of freedom of light we synthesize space-time beams with unprecedented properties, such as “light springs” consisting of ultrashort pulses orbiting on complex trajectories on a femtosecond scale.

Can we use high-power meta-optics and space-time beams to structure laser-matter interactions? We are particularly active in the realm of laser-plasma physics and intense nonlinear optics.

Can we think of a form of light that is seamlessly alive and structure itself? We are working in this direction combining physical neural networks and principles of Artificial Life.