- Optical trapping
- Phonon microscopy
- Raman spectroscopy
- Femtosecond lasers
- Pump-probe spectroscopy
- large scale laser materials processing (cutting/drilling/cladding/surface melting)
- Optical fibre sensors (Bragg gratings, surface plasmon resonance)
- Optical metamaterial fabrication and characterisation
- Epitaxial growth of 2D materials
