News
January 2018
- Harald organises a session at the PQE
2018
June 2018
- Luke & Patrick present at the 2018 DWC Symposium
May 2018
- Harald presents an invited talk at CLEO USA
- invited talk at 2nd workshop on Asymmetric Microcavity and Wave Chaos in Fuzhou, China
March 2018
- Our Marsden funding started!
February 2018
- Luke presents a talk at Photonics West
January 2018
- Harald presents an invited talk at “Dynamics in Artificial Quantum Systems” DAQS2018 in Tokyo.
2017
December 2017
- Gabriel and Luke present their work at this years ANZCOP2017 in Queenstown
- Harald is the Technical Chair at this years ANZCOP2017 in Queenstown
November 2017
- Harald received the prestigious Marsden funding for work on “Microresonator frequency combs through second-order nonlinearities”.
August 2017
- Our proposal to host Prof Gerd Leuchs with a Julius von Haast fellowship was selected by the Royal Society of New Zealand.
- Gabriel is visiting us from Spain to work on THz receivers. Welcome to NZ!
June 2017
- Alfredo won the SAOT Student Award for his publication on the Microwave up-conversion published in OPTICA
May 2017
- Harald presented at this years CLEO 2017 and won the OSA and Quantel "Bright Ideas Competition"
April 2017
- We are in the round of the final four in the OSA and Quantel "Bright Ideas Competition" to win a 30k$ laser from Quantel
January 2017
- Harald is the scientific coordinator of the 10th annual DWC Symposium held in Dunedin.
- Luke has an oral presentation at the symposium on “Harmonic Generation in Whispering Gallery Mode Resonators”
- Harald gives an tutorial on “Optical Resonators for Linear and Nonlinear interactions”
- Harald organises a break-out session on “Microwave to optics coherent conversion” at the 47th PQE conference in Snowbird Utah
2016
December 2016
- Harald gives a colloquium at the FAU in Erlangen Physik Kolloquium
- Congratulations to Dr Florian Sedlmeir for defending his thesis on “Crystalline Whispering Gallery Mode Resonators” with summa cum laude
October 2016
- Our JOSA B manuscript is published "Dielectric tuning and coupling of WGM using an anisotropic prism".
September 2016
- Christian, Florian and Harald present at the Nonlinear Photonics in Sydney
- Florian and Harald visit the group of Mike Tobar in Perth, Australia.
July 2016
- A new submission to the arXive on "Dielectric tuning and coupling of whispering gallery modes using an anisotropic prism" by Matthew Foreman and us.
- Alfredo presents our work at an invite talk ASE16 in Malaga, Spain, here is the booklet
- Alfredo presents our work at the Max Planck Retreat in Ringberg Castle in Germany
- We are strongly involved in the Science Festival and exhibit experiments with ghost images, optical cloaking and total internal reflection.
June 2016
- Our group present at the DWC Symposium in Queenstown
- Alfredo presents our work at the Central European Workshop on Quantum Optics in Crete, Greece
- Florian and Alfredo Present at CLEO USA
May 2016
- Nonlinear and Quantum Optics with Whispering Gallery Resonators is on the arXiv, a massive review with more than 500 references, by Dmitry, Christoph, Andrey, Harald and Gerd.
- Alfredo is back in Erlangen, Germany
April 2016
- Welcome to Florian Sedlmeir who joins us in Dunedin.
March 2016
- Alfredo and Harald present at the Matariki Workshop in Dunedin
- Our paper on "Frequency tuning of single photons from a whispering-gallery mode resonator to MHz-wide transitions" in Journal of Modern Optics is online available, here is the arXiv Version.
- Christian Peuntinger joins our group.
February 2016
- Our group makes a trip to Auckland and Harald gives a talk at the Auckland Physics department in connection with the Dodd-Walls Centre.
January 2016
- Alfredo Rueda comes for an extended stay in Dunedin, we finally submit our manuscript on “Efficient single sideband microwave to optical conversion using an electro-optical whispering gallery mode resonator” to the arXiv.
2015
December 2015
- Physical Review Letters publishes our theoretical paper on |"Intracavity Squeezing Can Enhance Quantum-Limited Optomechanical Position Detection through Deamplification"
November 2015
- Elizabeth and Phillip start their Summer Studentship in my Lab and help me get everything setup.
September 2015
- Optica publishes our work on |"Interfacing transitions of different alkali atoms and telecom bands using one narrowband photon pair source"
- Harald speaks at the "Workshop on coherent light-matter interactions" on the topic of “Microwave-optical quantum state conversion using whispering gallery mode resonators”
- First day at work in New Zealand! – students are welcome to apply for any position, Summer Intern, Honors, Master, Ph.D.!
August 2015
- Harald relocates to Dunedin in New Zealand to start a job as Senior lecturer.
July 2015
- Harald receives the prestigious Heisenberg Stipend from the German Research Foundation (DFG) as well as a research grant.
- Harald presents and invited talk of our work at PIERS in Prague.
June 2015
- Florian presents our work on Sensing at CLEO Europe.
May 2015
- Vladimir Kornienko visits us from Moscow State University.
- Harald gives a talk at OIT in Beijing and a group seminar in the group of Yun Feng at Peking University.
April 2015
- Science publishes a Perspective on A chaotic approach clears up imaging by Harald and Hakan Türeci.
March 2015
- Harald accepts a Senior Lecturer position at the University of Otago in New Zealand – in August we are going to move the lab down under!
- We are at the meeting of the "Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft" in Heidelberg.
- Our article on dielectric waveguide antennas which can be evanescently coupled to WGM resonators has been published by the IEEE
February 2015
- Invited talk at Photonics West 2015 in San Francisco, CA, USA given by Harald.
- New submission to the arXiv Optomechanical position detection enhanced by de-amplification using intracavity squeezing.
- Our article on highly efficient generation of single-mode photon pairs has been published in Physical Review A
- Colloquium Talk given by Harald at the Physics Department of the University of Otago in Dunedin, NZ
January 2015
2014
December 2014
- Harald gives an invited talk at the University of Auckland and Otago University in New Zealand.
- Two of our publications are published at Optics Express one on sensing with MgF2 resonator and one on identifying modes of large WGM resonators.
November 2014
- Harald visits the group of Andeas Wallraff and gives an invited talk at the ETH Zürich.
October 2014
- Harald published a Perspective for Science "In optical pumping, less can be more"
- Former master student Michele Collodo starts with his Ph.D. at the group of Andeas Wallraff at the ETH in Zurich.
- The German TV Show Kopfball shows an episode on how a “laser microphone” functions. Michele helped at the recording and our equipment is been used.
- New publication submitted to the ArXiv on single-photon spectroscopy in WGMs.
September 2014
- New publication submitted to the ArXiv on sensing with crystalline WGM resonators.
- Our edited volume in the Springer Series “The European Physical Journal Special Topics” is available online. This volume highlights the most recent developments which were presented at the 560. WE Heraeus Seminar “Taking Detection to the Limit – Biosensing with Optical Microcavities”. Editorial & Brief Report
- Martin Hauer submitted a poster contribution to Photon 14 was upgraded to a talk - congratulations!
August 2014
- Harald gives an invited talk at PIERS 2014 in Guangzhou, China
- “Hot-Topic” talk at the CIPRIS Summer School in Höör, Sweden
- uploaded new publication to the ArXiv on the exact identification of modes in large WGM resonators.
July 2014
- Retreat of Division Leuchs at Schloss Ringberg
June 2014
- Harald gives a Summer School lecture on “Non-linear optics in Whispering Gallery Mode Resonators” at the Extreme Photonics Summer School in Ottawa.
April 2014
- Prof. Stefan Kröll and Prof. Lars Rippe from Lund University visit our group supported by the SAOT
- Prof. Doug Stone from Yale University visits our group supported through the SAOT and gives a talk at the Physics colloquium on his new book
- The 560. WE-Heraeus Seminar "Taking Detection to the Limit: Biosensing with Optical Microcavities", organized by Harald Schwefel and Frank Vollmer takes place in Bad Honnef.
- Master Student Richard Zeltner wins a poster prize - congratulations!
- Prof. Tal Carmon from the Technion at Haifa visits our group and is supported by the SAOT
- Dr. Stefan Bittner visits our group
March 2014
- Group trip to the meeting of the German Physical Society in Berlin - two talks one poster.
- Harald hold a course on Nanophotonics at the Winter Academy of the SAOT
February 2014
- Florian Sedlmeir substitutes Harald at an invited talk at the Photonics West 2014 in San Francisco