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
PhD 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

Mats Brinkman
MSc researcher
Room HL902
brinkman@physics.leidenuniv.nl

Farouk Albalacy
Internship (AIMS)
Room HL807
albalacy@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
MSc, 2024 Eli van der Bent Absorption spectroscopy with a single photon source
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, 2019Konstantin Iakovlev Generation of Linear Cluster States with a Deterministic Single Photon Source
PhD, 2018 Henk Snijders Quantum dot microcavity control of photon statistics
MSc, 2018Sameer 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