Hollow-core fibers are changing the world faster than we realize. Our laboratory specializes in optical trapping and hollow-core fiber technologies, enabling the control of particles at the nano- and micro-scale as well as highly sensitive measurements. Our research spans from stable optical tweezers that make particles levitate to state-of-the-art hollow-core fibers for sensor optics.
The laboratory: The optical trapping laboratory at the LHFT is highly automated. There, we build hollow-core fiber based optical tweezers using high-power lasers and state of the art optical components. We use low-loss anti-resonant hollow-core fibers to trap the desired particles. Various particles are used for a wide range of sensor applications, such as measuring electric fields, magnetic fields, temperatures and much more. To achieve spatial resolution, we integrate a high resolution coherent optical frequency domain reflectometry into the trapping setup.
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