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Fully Integrated on-chip platforms towards cavity optomechanics with levitated nanoparticles
We are looking for a curious and motivated master student, who wants to join our young & international NSL group and develops packaging techniques for fully integrated chips for optical levitation in vacuum.
Optical levitation of nanoparticles is a young field of optomechanics relying on optical
tweezers and cavities for trapping of nanoparticles and their interaction with engineered light
fields. Recently, this dynamic field of Levitodynamics has worked towards miniaturization to
increase physical effects and robustness of experimental setups. Hereby, one basic milestone
stone is the optical link between optical fibers and the experimental on-chip platform.
Optical levitation of nanoparticles is a young field of optomechanics relying on optical tweezers and cavities for trapping of nanoparticles and their interaction with engineered light fields. Recently, this dynamic field of Levitodynamics has worked towards miniaturization to increase physical effects and robustness of experimental setups. Hereby, one basic milestone stone is the optical link between optical fibers and the experimental on-chip platform.
Your project aims at the design and characterization of an optical setup that allows for the
robust and repeatable interface of arbitrary on-chip experimental platforms and macroscopic
optics, enabling a manifold of experiments, such as quantum experiments with optical
nanocavities and levitated nanoparticles without moving parts. You will investigate different
packaging options, ranging from fiber arrays to microfabricated optics. Your work will be mainly experimental.
We offer you close supervision through PhD and Postdocs but also expect that you work
independently. In your project, you will get into contact with a multitude of technologies like
optics, lasers, microfabrication, data evaluation and vacuum technology among others.
Experience with optical setups is beneficial but not mandatory.
If we sparked your interest, contact us
nmeyer@ethz.ch or rquidant@ethz.ch
Your project aims at the design and characterization of an optical setup that allows for the robust and repeatable interface of arbitrary on-chip experimental platforms and macroscopic optics, enabling a manifold of experiments, such as quantum experiments with optical nanocavities and levitated nanoparticles without moving parts. You will investigate different packaging options, ranging from fiber arrays to microfabricated optics. Your work will be mainly experimental.
We offer you close supervision through PhD and Postdocs but also expect that you work independently. In your project, you will get into contact with a multitude of technologies like optics, lasers, microfabrication, data evaluation and vacuum technology among others. Experience with optical setups is beneficial but not mandatory. If we sparked your interest, contact us nmeyer@ethz.ch or rquidant@ethz.ch