OIST-Keio Showcase Talk Series Vol. 11: Resonance Matters - Micro-Optical Resonators for Quantum, Bio, and Energy Applications

Resonance Matters - Micro-Optical Resonators for Quantum, Bio, and Energy Applications

This focused scientific meeting (Partnership Event) will bring together researchers from OIST and Keio University to explore recent advances in micro-optics resonators, with an emphasis on applications in quantum technologies and energy-related photonics.
Whispering-gallery resonators offer exceptional optical confinement and high quality factors, enabling strong light–matter interactions, nonlinear optical processes, and sensitive transduction mechanisms. These properties make WGMs a powerful platform for emerging quantum systems as well as for energy-relevant applications such as sensing, frequency conversion, and photonic energy management.

[Seminar] Laser cooling of aluminium monofluoride molecules in the deep ultraviolet

Title: Laser cooling of aluminium monofluoride molecules in the deep ultraviolet

Speaker: Dr Dylan Brown, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Imperial College London, UK

[Seminar] Hot atomic vapors: From fundamental science to quantum technologies

Title: Hot atomic vapors: From fundamental science to quantum technologies

Speaker:  Dr Robert Löw, Deputy Director, 5th Institute of Physics, University of Stuttgart, Germany

[Atomic physics seminar] Entanglement-assisted readout and cooling of neutral atom qubits in an optical tweezer array

Speaker: Dr Lewis Picard, Caltech, USA

Title: Entanglement-assisted readout and cooling of neutral atom qubits in an optical tweezer array

[Atomic physics seminar] Nonclassical light – getting more of it out of a single atom

Speaker: Dr Scott Parkins, Associate Professor, The University of Auckland, NZ

Title: Nonclassical light – getting more of it out of a single atom

[Atomic physics seminar] Neutral-Atom Based Quantum Computing with 171Yb Nuclear-Spin Qubits

Title: Neutral-Atom Based Quantum Computing with 171Yb Nuclear-Spin Qubits

Speaker: Dr Sebastian Pucher, Quantum Engineer at Atom Computing, Boulder, Colorado, USA

[atomic physics seminar] A single emitter emitting resonance fluorescence into a coherent beam

Title: A single emitter emitting resonance fluorescence into a coherent beam

Speaker: Mr Tomas Lamich, ICFO, Spain

Language: English

Seminar: Micro- and Nanomotors Driven by Optical Forces and Torques

Title:  Micro- and Nanomotors Driven by Optical Forces and Torques

Speaker: Dr Mikael Käll, Professor, Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology,  Sweden

Seminar: Plasmonic Optical Tweezers: From Nanoparticles Trapping to Biomolecules Manipulation

Title:  Plasmonic Optical Tweezers: From Nanoparticles Trapping to Biomolecules Manipulation

Speaker: Dr Domna Kotsifaki, Assistant Professor of Physics, Duke Kunshan University, China

Seminar: Multipliers of orbital angular momentum of light

Title:  Multipliers of orbital angular momentum of light

Speaker: Dr Georgiy Tkachenko,  University of Bordeaux, France