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Max Planck Junior Research Group for Novel Applications of Ultra-High-Q Optical Microcavities

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Optical micro-cavities store in small volumes for extended amounts of time and find application in fundamental and applied studies, ranging from non-linear optics, quantum information to biological sensing and telecommunications. Recently, a rapid progress has been made in increasing the temporal confinement of photons in micro-cavities (as given by the quality factor, Q). These advances in Q-factor have allowed for the first time to observe the regime of strong coupling of an atom-cavity system, as well as al lowed the integration of non-linear optical oscillators, such as Raman lasers, optical parametric oscillators and optical switches on a silicon chip.

The current research proposal will build on these advances and explore an hereto unstudied application area of ultra-high-Q toroid micro-cavities: Quantum Optics. Despite the tremendous promise of ultra-high-Q toroid micro-cavities, these devices have not yet been used for Quantum Optical experiments. Therefore, the proposed studies are both novel and timely and will to contribute to the field of secure quantum communication, a field that has mobilized the international physics community. Moreover, this proposal will explore combining chip based micro-cavities with the atom microchip technology developed in the host laboratory. The host laboratory is the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics (MPQ) in Garching, specifically the Division of Laser Spectroscopy of T.W. Haensch.

The applicant is a German Scientist, who has completed his PhD and Postdoc at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, USA and who has recently been selected to establish a Max Planck Junior Research Group. The MPQ has arranged all necessary practical arrangements for a successful integration of the researcher. The present proposal will finance additional equipment for his laboratory, and thereby contribute to the successful and lasting integration of the researcher, as well as to attract back a researcher from a top US school.

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FP6-2004-MOBILITY-12
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IRG - Marie Curie actions-International re-integration grants

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MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E.V. REPRESENTED BY: MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK
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