Person in Charge:
Mr. Leonard Bayang
RESEARCH OBJECTIVE
The Optical Calibration Facility specializes in providing calibration and testing services, particularly for telecommunication equipment and devices. The management of our laboratories for calibration and testing strictly follows the ISO/IEC 17025 requirements to ensure our customers receive the highest quality and most trusted services.
Person in Charge:
Dr. Muhammad Zharif Samion
RESEARCH OBJECTIVE
High-power laser lab focuses on constructing a fiber laser with output power at the Watt scale. Currently, there are three different wavelength laser configurations: 1.0 µm, 1.5 µm, and 2 µm. This lab is established to realize the objective of the Photonics Research Center to move towards the industrial sector.
Person in Charge:
Dr. Muhamad Zharif Samion
RESEARCH OBJECTIVE
Research in this lab focuses on developing 2nm fiber lasers utilizing different gain media such as thulium-doped fiber, thulium-holmium-doped fiber, and holmium-doped fiber. The type of lasers being developed is usually pulsed fiber lasers and also multiwavelength fiber lasers using compact and cost-effective techniques.
Person in Charge:
Dr. Muhamad Zharif Samion
RESEARCH OBJECTIVE
Research in this lab focuses on developing 2nm fiber lasers utilizing different gain media such as thulium-doped fiber, thulium-holmium-doped fiber, and holmium-doped fiber. The type of lasers being developed is usually pulsed fiber lasers and also multiwavelength fiber lasers using compact and cost-effective techniques.
Person in Charge:
Assoc. Prof. Ir. Dr. Lim Kok Sing
RESEARCH OBJECTIVE
The optical fiber sensors and signal processing laboratory focuses on the research and development of various optical fiber components for sensing applications, including fiber Bragg gratings, few-mode fiber components, optical fiber interferometers, and optical instrumentation. Besides, the research team is also interested in the study of optical signal processing and digital processing to improve the signal quality and detection performance of the optical fiber sensors. The research team works closely with other reputed research groups in the interdisciplinary area, such as medical laser devices, Surface plasmon resonance biosensors, and optical communication.
Person in Charge:
Dr. Siti Aisyah Reduan
RESEARCH OBJECTIVE
Our group explores optical material interactions to develop novel pulsed laser sources in the near infrared (e.g., 1.3 µm and 1.5 µm) regime. Our research focuses on novel modulation devices and how light interactions can fuel new applications in biomedical imaging and material characterization. We study femtosecond pulse generation techniques (1 femtosecond = 10-15 seconds) to advance photonic technologies that modulate and transmit light efficiently. Compact pulsed fiber laser systems are pursued for applications in communications, biomedical diagnostics and treatment, frequency metrology, environmental sensing, and spectroscopy.
Person in Charge:
Dr. Nima Naderi
RESEARCH OBJECTIVE
The Photodetection laboratory is set up to study the photo-electron generation principle and the capability of 2-D materials, which include graphene, graphene oxides, transition metal dichalcogenides, metal nanoparticles, etc. The laboratory is equipped with laser sources with different colours and a 4-point probe and micro-positioning stages for the precise positioning of the probes on the thin film photodetector samples. Among others, broadband photodetection with large responsivity has been achieved using MoS2-based photodetectors enhanced with Au nanostructures.
Person in Charge: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Chong Wu Yi
RESEARCH OBJECTIVE
The PLC laboratory houses a laser direct writing setup for waveguide fabrication using polymer materials. In addition, there are various characterization setups for optical performance measurement of optical planar waveguides. One of the research objectives of the laboratory is to develop hybrid waveguides where passive optical waveguides are functionalized with active materials to increase the functionality of a single optical waveguide chip. This has led to the development of broadband and high polarization extinction ratio waveguide polarizers, all-optical switches, and optical sensors.
Person in Charge:
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Rozalina Zakaria
RESEARCH OBJECTIVE
Plasmonic lab has been led by Associate Professor Dr Rozalina Zakaria since 2011, as one of the laboratories in Photonics Research Centre (PRC) under the director, Distinguished Prof Dr Harith Ahmad. This lab majors in the field of plasmonic effects in materials. Ever since Dr Rozalina in plasmonics, many students have been produced in various degrees, five (5) Master’s graduated, three (3) PhDs graduated, and seven (7) ongoing postgraduate students as of 2020. Various topics have been focused on, and many papers have been published in ISI and Scopus on these topics. Earlier research was on the topic of plasmonic solar cells and OLED before it merged with surface plasmon resonance in an optical fiber sensor. Ongoing research is more on photonics material by integrating various conditions, namely metallic nanoparticles, two-dimensional materials (graphene and TMDC), and nonlinear optical properties of materials. This includes embarking on new and recent materials to be used in photonic devices.
Our lab has main equipment, namely the Electron beam evaporation machine, which can deposit various metallic layers down to nano-scale thickness with computerized monitoring. This machine has given vast opportunities from internal and external collaboration, such as Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nottingham University Semenyih, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Universiti Sains Malaysia, and Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. Official collaboration is also ongoing between Malaysia and India under the ASEAN-India Collaboration Grant, and also UM internal collaboration with the Chemistry Department under the IIRG national grant.
Person in Charge:
Dr. Mohammad Faizal Ismail
RESEARCH OBJECTIVE
Ultrafast Fiber Lab explores the development of novel laser sources in the wavelength region of 1.0 μm to 2.0 μm. This lab studies the process of femtosecond pulse generation, particularly mode-locking in fiber lasers. This lab has developed various types of saturable absorbers for passive mode-locking and q-switching in fiber lasers.
Equipment:
Optical Spectrum Analyzer (350-2400nm)
Optical amplifier (1000-2400nm)
Autocorrelator (1.0, 1.55 and 2.0 um)
Radio Spectrum Analyzer
Sampling Oscilloscope
Tunable laser source (1.0-2.0 um)
Last Update: 24/09/2025