In our group we investigate applications of optical microcavities. We use them to explore how the fundamental properties of artificial materials, like the propagation of sounds, can be manipulated using light. Achieving this will open a door to optically configurable functional devices that can interface other on-chip systems like optical quantum emitters and allow to build detector devices with extreme sensitivity in detecting forces and analyte substances.  

Our junior group is hosted by the Chair of Nano & Quantum Sensing (Prof. Eva Weig) at the Technical University of Munich. We gratefully acknowledge funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG) through the Emmy Noether Program. 

For our work with fiber-based optical microcavities we maintain a close collaboration with the Bonn Fiber Lab and the Fiber Cavity Optomechanics Laboratory in the Nonlinear Quantum Optics group of Prof. Sebastian Hofferberth at the Institute of Applied Physics at the University of Bonn.