I am happy to announce that our research will move to the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in January 2020.

Lewis Hill received the “Conference Stand-out Presentation”-Award at this year’s Institute of Physics CAPS conference in Swansea. Congratulations Lewis!

Together with Alessia Pasquazi’s group at the University of Sussex we published a paper on thermo-optical pulsing in a nested microresonator system embedded in a ring laser.
Optics Express 27, 19242-19254

Andreas Svela won the prize for the best student talk at the International Nanophotonics Summerschool at AMOLF for his talk on “Near-field sensing with symmetry-breaking enhancement in microresonators”. Congratulations Andreas!

We demonstrate a new technique to passively stabilize microresonator modes using an auxiliary laser. This enables the generation of soliton frequency combs at a record low threshold power of 780 microwatt.
Optica 6, 206-212
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Our recent work on the interplay between time-reversal symmetry breaking and polarization symmetry breaking has been published in Physical Review Letters. 
PRL 122 013905
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Together with our collaborators Michael Vanner and Georg Enzian from Imperial College we published a paper on Brillouin optomechanical strong coupling in microresonators.
Optica 6, 7-14 (2019)
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Our paper on the dynamics of the interaction of counterpropagting light in microresonators has been published. This work has been done together with Gian-Luca Oppo and Lewis Hill at the University of Strathclyde.
Physical Review A, 98, 053863

We are organizing a special symposium on nonreciprocal photonics at CLEO2019 in San Jose (May 5th-10th 2019). Contributed submissions welcome! More information on the CLEO website.

Our work on nonlinear interaction of counterpropagating light in microresonators received the 2018 NPL Rayleigh Award. Congratulations to everyone!

Our work on microresonator-based optical isolators and circulators using the nonreciprocity of the Kerr effect has been published in Optica. https://doi.org/10.1364/OPTICA.5.000279

Leonardo Del Bino won a best poster award at the “653. WE-Heraeus-Seminar: Optical Microcavities and Their Applications” for his poster on optical isolators and circulators based on the nonreciprocity of the Kerr effect in microresonators.

Jonathan Silver received the “Best Presentation Award” of NPL’s time and frequency symposium.

Jonathan Silver was awarded a postdoctoral research fellowship by the Royal Academy of Engineering for work on applications of spontaneous symmetry breaking between counterpropagating light in whispering gallery microresonators. Congratulations Jonathan!

Pascal Del’Haye received this year’s Young Scientist Award of the European Frequency and Time Forum. The award was presented during the plenary session of the EFTF/IFCS conference in Besancon “For outstanding contributions to the development of microresonator–based optical frequency combs”.

Leonardo Del Bino was rewarded with the Incubic/Milton Chang travel grant for his work on symmetry breaking of counterpropagating light in microresonators. The grant covers travel costs to this year’s CLEO conference in San Jose, CA USA. Congratulations Leonardo!
http://www.osa.org/en-us/foundation/programs/incubic/

Pascal Del’Haye received a Horizons2020 Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Grant for research on nonlinear interaction of counter-propagating light.