We published our work on building an on-chip optical circulator in Nature Communications. This work was done in collaboration with our colleagues at UT Austin. We were able to demonstrate tunable optical circulation at...

    Freek Ruesink successfully defended his PhD thesis titled “Manipulating light with ring resonators coupled to antennas and mechanical motion” on 23rd October, 2017 at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Congratulations to Freek!

    In a first for the Photonic Forces group, Rick Leijssen successfully defended his PhD thesis titled “Measuring mechanical motion using light confined at the nanoscale” on 19th October, 2017 at the Eindhoven...

Ewold was awarded a Starting Grant of 1.5 million euros from the European Research Council (ERC). The ERC uses the Starting Grants to support talented scientists in the early stages of their career in...

I’m very honoured to have been appointed as professor at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) as of July 1. I’ve accepted a part-time position as professor of Nano-optomechanics within the Photonics and Semiconductor Nanophysics...

In a new paper in Nature Communications, we present photonic crystal nanobeams that exhibit extremely strong coupling between light and motion. As a result, the optomechanical interaction is no longer linear, even for the tiny...

Eigenmodes are powerful things in physics – there’s a reason we learn so much about them early on in BSc studies. They tell us how a system likes to behave if it’s left alone,...

With Michele Cotrufo and Andrea Fiore from TU Eindhoven, we published new theory work in Physical Review Letters. We present a new way to realize a strong and controllable interaction between a natural (or artificial)...

Together with our collaborators at UT Austin, we published our work on optomechanical nonreciprocity in Nature Communications. Our experiments demonstrate 10 dB optical isolation in a ring resonator, where optomechanical coupling takes the role...

Rick Leijssen is one of the recipients of this year’s Emil Wolf Award, for presenting one of the best contributed talks at the 2016 Frontiers in Optics conference held in Rochester, USA. Congratulations to...