We warmly welcome James Hubble from Ottawa University to our group within the internship program of the Max Planck – uOttawa Centre for Extreme and Quantum Photonics!

Up until now, ground state cooling using optomechanical interaction is realized in cavity-configurations and especially in the regime where optical dissipation is higher than mechanical dissipation. In our group, we consider cooling schemes in continuous optomechanical systems for example optical…

Congratulations to Dr. Alexandra Popp for defending her thesis on “Quantum limited and distributed measurements of optical fiber systems”. Alexandra is a member of two groups: the Stiller Research Group and the Marquardt Research Group and we combined our efforts on quantum communications and…

Olivia Saffer from Stellenbosch University, Capetown, South Africa and Grigorii Slinkov from Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia, joint us as PhD student and Research Associate. A warm welcome to both of you!

Congratulations to Steven Becker on getting accepted for the Mariann-Plehn-Program of the Max-Weber-Stiftung. This program is solely accessible for stipend-holders of the Studienstiftung, a stipend that Steven already successfully received back in 2021.

Our new paper on a Brillouin vortex laser is published in LPR!

Abstract:

Optical vortices, which have been extensively studied over the last decades, offer an additional degree of freedom useful in many applications, such as optical tweezers and quantum control. Stimulated Brillouin…