Research
The Optics & Photonics scientific community currently consists of members - from students to professors - across several ETH departments and institutes.
Attosecond Physics Group, Department of Physics
Prof. Lukas Gallmann's research team is studying some of the fastest electronic processes in solids, with a particular focus on how charge and energy are redistributed within the first moment of absorbing light.
Laboratory for Multifunctional Ferroic Materials, Department of Materials
The research in the team of Prof. Manfred Fiebig focuses on light-matter interaction in systems governed by strong electronic correlations, foremost (multi-) ferroics that are studied with nonlinear-optical methods.
Nanophotonic Systems Laboratory, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering
The Nanophotonic Systems Laboratory integrates the latest advances in nano-optics with fundamental physics, biology and engineering to address scientific and technological challenges over a wide spectrum of fields, ranging from optomechanics and biotechnology, to reconfigurable planar optics.
Nanoscale Quantum Optics, Department of Physics
The Nanoscale Quantum Optics, led by Prof. Puneet Murthy, works on light-matter interactions in nano-structures, and realizing novel states of light by engineering optical properties of materials at nanoscopic scales.
Optical Materials Engineering Laboratory, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering
The group of Prof. David Norris exploits nanotechnology to create new routes to advanced optical materials, from fluorescent quantum dots to structures for integrated photonics and devices.
Optical Nanomaterial Group, Department of Physics
The research of the group of Prof. Rachel Grange focus on strategies to enhance optical signal at small scale developing integrated photonics devices for classical and quantum applications.
Photonics Laboratory, Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering
We study light-matter interactions on the nanometer scale. Current research is focused on 1) quantum control of levitated objects and 2) optoelectronic devices based on 2D materials.
Quantum Optics Group, Department of Physics
Prof. Tilman Esslinger’s group studies quantum mechanical behavior using quantum simulators engineered from quantum degenerate atoms exposed to interfering laser beams.
Ultrafast Dynamics Group, Department of Physics
Prof. Steven Johnson’s group uses a variety of THz, optical and x-ray based methods to study the atomic-scale dynamics of materials, with a particular interest in dynamics connected with phase transitions and order parameters in quantum materials.
Ultrafast Laser Physics, Department of Physics
To explore and push the frontiers in ultrafast science and technology, using interdisciplinary understanding of the physics of lasers, semiconductors, and measurement technologies. Take this competitive know-how to understand and control fundamental charge and energy transport with atomic spatial and attosecond temporal resolution.