Welcome to our group’s website. Quantum optics: from fast to ultrafast.
Quantum optics studies the manifastation of light as particles, photons. We focus on nano-sized objects and the unique properties that enable them to generate quantum states of light. The electronic dynamics in these are, to phrase it non-scientifically, very fast.
How fast? some processes in these emitters occur on a nanosecond time scale (10-9 seconds) where our fast spectrometers and electrical-control techniques allow us to tackle a few of the most burning questions in this field. Other processes are even faster, occuring within a few picoseconds (10-12 seconds)! Here, techniques from ultrafast spectroscopy (transient transmission) come in handy to observe what happens in estonishing spatial and temporal scales, a nanometer (10-9 meters) and a picosecond.
For a more in-depth look, browse through our Research intersts and Publications list.
Our group is part of the Leitenstorfer Chair for Ultrafast Phenomena and Photonics that specializes in using ultrafast pulses to probe fast dynamics and fluctuations in semicondutors.
Our work is made possible only thanks to enriching scientific collaborations with:
Quantum Imaing lab, Univeristy of Warsaw
Chair of Chemical Materials Science, Univeristy of Konstanz
We also thank the funding agencies that support us now or in the past:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) through Collabarotive Research Center, SFB 1432