Team
Wolfgang Löffler
PI
Room HL906
☎ +31-(0)71 527 5931
loeffler@physics.leidenuniv.nl
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Henriette van Leeuwen
Administrative support
Room HL809c
☎ +31-(0)71 527 5910
leeuwenh@physics.leidenuniv.nl
Tom van der Reep
Postdoctoral researcher
Room HL902
reep@physics.leidenuniv.nl
Matteo Fisicaro
Postdoctoral researcher
Room HL916c
fisicaro@physics.leidenuniv.nl
Lipeng Wan
remote guest researcher
wan@physics.leidenuniv.nl
Kirsten Kanneworff
PhD researcher
Room HL916a
kanneworff@physics.leidenuniv.nl
Mio Poortvliet
PhD researcher
Room HL916a
poortvliet@physics.leidenuniv.nl
Thomas Steenbergen
PhD researcher
Room HL916c
steenbergen@physics.leidenuniv.nl
Angelos Gialouris
MSc researcher
Room HL902
gialouris@physics.leidenuniv.nl
Resi Aarts
MSc researcher
Room HL902
Ruiyun Zhang
MSc researcher
Room HL902
r.zhang@physics.leidenuniv.nl
Pim Veefkind
MSc researcher
Room HL902
Oliver Benson
BSc researcher
Room HL902
benson@physics.leidenuniv.nl
Past
| Year | Name | Comments | Pic |
|---|---|---|---|
| PhD, 2024 | Matteo Fisicaro | Cavities for light and sound: a cavity-enhanced platform for quantum acoustics |  |
| MSc, 2024 | Mats Brinkman | Towards external-gate tuning of a single semiconductor quantum dot | |
| MSc, 2024 | Eli van der Bent | Absorption spectroscopy with a single photon source | |
| Internship (AIMS), 2024 | Farouk Albalacy | Coincidence Correlation | |
| Internship (HHS), 2024 | Steffi Blankers | Menselijke waarneming van enkele fotonen: Op weg naar een experimentele opstelling | |
| BSc, 2024 | Krystian Czerniak | Young's double slit experiment with surface acoustic waves on gallium arsenide | |
| Internship (HHS), 2024 | Mickael Bouscaut | Pure single photons with the click of a button | |
| Internship (HHS), 2024 | Daniel Djuly | Constructing a Magneto-Optical Kerr Effect microscope for ferromagnetic materials | |
| 2024 | Petr Steindl | postdoctoral researcher, now at CNRS |  |
| MSc, 2023 | Leander Kalff | Towards bright optical superchirality patterns characterized by pixel superresolution fringe metrology |  |
| MSc, 2023 | Yasmin Doedes | Towards Optical Detection of Thermal Phonons in Surface Acoustic Wave Resonators |  |
| MSc, 2023 | Lisa van Leeuwen | Micromirrors for small mode volume and high quality factor microcavities | |
| BSc, 2023 | Natan van Steenis | Towards experiments using quantum detector tomography to determine the limits of human vision |  |
| PhD, 2023 | Petr Steindl | Quantum dots in microcavities: From single spins to engineered quantum states of light | |
| MSc, 2023 | Roya Ahemeh | The characterization of a true-single-photon-added-coherent-state |  |
| MSc, 2023 | Thomas Steenbergen | The Generation and Measurement of Surface Acoustic Waves on Gallium Arsenide |  |
| MSc, 2022 | Ilse Kuijf | Picosecond optical pulses by electro-optic laser modulation for single photon generation |  |
| 2022 | Lipeng Wan | visiting PhD researcher, now Lecturer at Nanchang University |  |
| BSc, 2022 | Camiel Meijer | Examining polarisation qubit modification in optical fibres |  |
| 2022 | Paul Hilaire | postdoctoral researcher, now at Quandela |  |
| Internship, 2022 | Jasper van der Boom | Methods for polarisation and intensity control on a quantum-dot & cavity-based single photon source in cross-polarisation | |
| MSc, 2022 | Joost Vermeer | Multi-pair and Multi-mode Parametric Down Conversion (now PhD researcher at FAU Erlangen) |  |
| 2022 | Hubertus Lauterbacher | Erasmus internship | |
| 2021 | Mio Poortvliet | Research student |  |
| BSc, 2021 | Tessa van der Ent | Polarized cavity-enhanced quantum dot-based single-photon generation |  |
| BSc, 2021 | Renze Suters | Numerical simulations of interdigital transducers for surface acoustic wave generation | |
| BSc, 2021 | Pim Veefkind | Towards Quantum Key Recycling using Photonic Spatial Modes |  |
| BSc, 2021 | Benjamin Claus | Virtual Physics Experiments: Grating-Based Spectroscopy | |
| BSc, 2021 | Maureen Hylkema | The Virtual Double Slit Experiment | |
| BSc, 2021 | Killian Verder | Multiphoton decoy states for BB84 with acousto-optical modulation | |
| BSc, 2021 | Tim Hogendoorn | The effects of disturbances on the Hanbury Brown-Twiss experiment | |
| MSc, 2021 | Alicja Dutkiewicz | Creating arbitrary polarisation states with Liquid Crystal Variable Retarders, now PhD researcher at Instituut Lorentz |  |
| MSc, 2021 | Victoria Domínguez Tubío | Beam splitter based scheme for generation of displaced Fock states |  |
| Internship (HHS), 2021 | Leo Reinders | Fiber coupling and characterization of a single photon detector | |
| Bsc, 2021 | Florine de Villeneuve | Towards a helioscope based on a tunable ball lens | |
| MSc, 2020 | Kirsten Kanneworff | Towards Experimental Quantum Position Verification, now PhD researcher in our group | |
| MSc, 2020 | Giel Keijsers | Rotation-induced Localization of Light in Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystals, now PhD researcher AMOLF |  |
| BSc, 2020 | Daan Otto | The Coherent Relative Entropy and the Work Cost of Quantum Processes | |
| BSc, 2020 | Mio Poortvliet | High Gain Spatial Photon Correlations, now PhD researcher in our group | |
| BSc, 2020 | David Rug | Exploring Novel Approaches to Quantum State Tomography |  |
| 2020 | Daniel Pret | Visiting teacher |  |
| BSc, 2020 | Jonathan Pilgram | Towards finding structure in a chaotic sea of light | |
| MSc, 2019 | Guido Stam | Strongly focused vortices and pinhole scanning microscopy, now PhD researcher van der Molen lab |  |
| MSc, 2019 | Jeroen van Doorn | An investigation of the plane-concave Fabry Perot cavity | |
| 2019 | Henk Snijders | Postdoctoral researcher, now at Quix |  |
| 2019 | Sharafudeen K. N. | Visiting researcher |  |
| MSc, 2019 | Angelique van Vark | Towards single photon spectroscopy (now highschool teacher) |  |
| MSc, 2019 | Gerard Westra | Quantum entangled single photons with partial distinguishability |  |
| BSc, 2019 | Edward Hissink | Photonic cluster states with quantum dots |  |
| BSc, 2019 | Sacha Szkudlarek | The simulation of a plane-concave Fabry-Perot micro-cavity | |
| BSc, 2019 | Andreas Lepidis | On Quadripartite Entanglement in High-Dimensional Hilbert Space |  |
| BSc, 2019 | Charlie Bender | Towards 4-photon OAM entanglement experiments | |
| BSc, 2019 | Sam Woldringh | Analogies of Positronium & Quantum Dot Excitons |  |
| MSc, 2019 | Konstantin Iakovlev | Generation of Linear Cluster States with a Deterministic Single Photon Source |  |
| PhD, 2018 | Henk Snijders | Quantum dot microcavity control of photon statistics | |
| MSc, 2018 | Sameer Sonar | Multimode Optomechanics with a Membrane-in-the-middle System | |
| BSc, 2018 | Steven Riedijk | Rabi oscillations in a cavity-quantum dot system | |
| BSc, 2018 | Daan Barsukoff Poniatowsky | Photonic cluster states with quantum dot cavity QED | |
| BSc, 2018 | Thomas Steenbergen | Thermal conductivity measurements of nanometer-thick SiN membranes | |
| MSc, 2017 | Elger Vlieg | A membrane-in-the-middle device for optomechanics | |
| MSc, 2017 | David Kok | Single photons and coherent light in polarized quantum dot cavity QED | |
| MSc, 2017 | Marnix van de Stolpe | Optimizing the polarization for a brighter CQED single photon source | |
| MSc, 2017 | Vincent Post | Towards fiber coupled cavity quantum electrodynamics, now at Condi Food | |
| BSc, 2017 | Andreani Petrou | Singular light knots | |
| BSc, 2017 | Jimi de Haan | Spectroscopic Study of Ytterbium in Amorphous Silicon Nitride | |
| BSc, 2016 | David van Driel | Magnetic-field enhanced coherence in Ytterbium-doped ring resonators at millikelvin temperatures | |
| MSc, 2015 | Marios Kounalakis | Generation and Characterisation of Picosecond Laser Pulses | |
| BSc, 2013 | Jeroen van Gorsel | Vortex splitting and vortex coronography | |
| BSc, 2013 | Danny Hetharia | Spatial coherence and the orbital angular momentum of light in astronomy | |
| MSc, 2012 | Daniël Geelen | Detecting Correlations of High-Dimensional Spatially Entangled Photons using Phase-only Modulation, now at Condi Food | |
| MSc, 2012 | Francesco Ricci | Experimental study of phase singularities in optical beams carrying orbital angular momentum |