Whispering gallery mode (WGM) resonators have been exploited as a highly sensitive and
efficient sensing technique in the past few years. They offer the advantages of ultrahigh …

Extreme confinement of electromagnetic waves and mechanical displacement fields to
nanometer dimensions through plasmonic nanostructures offers unprecedented …

Non-reciprocal devices, such as circulators and isolators, are indispensable components in
classical and quantum information processing in integrated photonic circuits. Aside from …

Cavity optomechanical systems provide powerful platforms to manipulate photons and
phonons, open potential applications for modern optical communications and precise …

Optical resonator sensors are an emerging class of analytical technologies that use
recirculating light confined within a microcavity to sensitively measure the surrounding …

Ultrashort laser pulses impinging on a plasmonic nanostructure trigger a highly dynamic
scenario in the interplay of electronic relaxation with lattice vibrations, which can be …

Over the last decades, nanomechanical sensors have received significant attention from the
scientific community, as they find plenty of applications in many different research fields …

We demonstrate multimode optomechanical sensing of individual nanoparticles with a
radius between 75 and 150 nm. A semiconductor optomechanical disk resonator is optically …

The design, fabrication, and detailed calibration of essential building blocks towards fully
integrated linear-optics quantum computation are discussed. Photonic devices are made …

The optical properties of small metallic particles allow us to bridge the gap between the
myriad of subdiffraction local phenomena and macroscopic optical elements. The …