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Applications and Fundamentals of Microresonator Frequency Combs

Projektbeschreibung

Förderung der europäischen Führungsrolle in der Erforschung und Anwendung von Mikrokämmen

Hochpräzise optische Frequenzkämme, oft als sogenannte optische Lineale bezeichnet, haben in den vergangenen Jahren enormen Einfluss auf die Metrologie und Spektroskopie ausgeübt. Moderne Herstellungstechnologien für optische Mikrokavitäten oder Mikroresonatoren dienten der Entwicklung von Mikrokämmen, die das Gebiet der Optik dramatisch erweitert haben, und nun an der Grenze zu neuen optischen Quellen und Anwendungen stehen. Mit Unterstützung der Marie-Skłodowska-Curie-Maßnahmen bildet das Projekt MICROCOMB eine neue Kohorte Forschender in der revolutionären Mikrokammtechnologie weiter, um Europas Führungsposition auszubauen und die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit in diesem schnell wachsenden Bereich zu stärken.

Ziel

The proposed network will establish and support cross-sectorial training and research programme bringing together leading European academic and industrial centers working in the area of optical frequency combs in microresonators (microcombs). The programme will allow to combine and share some of the world leading experience and expertise in the microcombs and train a new generation of scientists in this actively developing area bordering physics and photonic engineering and having pronounced applied and fundamental dimensions. The frequency comb research itself is the Nobel prize winning area (T. Hänsch and J. Hall, 2005), while the microcombs can qualify as an emerging disruptive technology. Europe still lacks a structured and comprehensive training programme in this area, which is proposed by our consortium, while facing a growing competiton with its global rivals. This programme will have a lasting impact increasing European innovation capacity through expanding knowledge base, new IP, trained personnel, better equipped laboratories and future collaborations leading to product development. Our project addresses research and technology problems with interdisciplinary importance from the areas of precision frequency metrology, ultrafast data processing, optical to RF signal conversion, astronomical measurements and soliton physics. Early stage researchers involved into the proposed network will receive broad and well balanced training in device characterisation and fabrication, experimental techniques and theory and modeling in best academic, research center and industrial environments. A programme of secondments and network wide events will ensure highest levels of cross-country and academia-industry mobility for our researchers. Soft-skills training events organised by such industrial consortium members as IBM, Menlo and AIRBUS will provide our researchers with career perspectives beyond their immediate research focus.

Koordinator

UNIVERSITY OF BATH
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€ 606 345,12
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BA2 7AY Bath
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South West (England) Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Bristol/Bath area Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire
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Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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€ 606 345,12

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