Group leader
Tobias J. Kippenberg is Full Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering at EPFL and leads the Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum Measurements. He obtained his BA at the RWTH Aachen, and MA and PhD at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech in Pasadena, USA).
Curriculum Vitae – List of Talks – https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3408-886X
Scientific contributions:
EPFL SB IPHYS LPQM1
PH D3 355 (Bâtiment PH)
Station 3
CH-1015 Lausanne
[email protected]
+41 21 693 44 28
+41 21 693 44 52
Office: PH D3 355
Administrative Staff
Administrator , Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum Measurements (STI/SB)
EPFL SB IPHYS LPQM1
PH D3 354 (Bâtiment PH)
Station 3
CH-1015 Lausanne
[email protected]
+41 21 693 44 52
Office: PH D3 354
Grant Manager , Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum Measurements (STI/SB)
EPFL SB IPHYS LPQM1
PH D3 354 (Bâtiment PH)
Station 3
CH-1015 Lausanne
[email protected]
+41 21 693 44 17
Office: PH D3 354
Laboratory Manager
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Post-doctoral researchers
Fields of expertise
Ultra-low loss photonic integrated circuits, telecom quantum dots in GaAs, light-matter interactions in dielectrics, high-performance silicon nanometer-scale fabrication.
Bio
Marcus Albrechtsen is a visiting postdoctoral scholar at EPFL in the group of Prof. Tobias Kippenberg at the Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum Measurements, funded by an international postdoc scholarship by the Independent Research Fund Denmark through the University of Copenhagen. His research interests focus on advanced nanofabrication to achieve ultra-low loss photonic integrated circuits. He was previously in the Quantum Photonics group at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen working on telecom quantum dots in GaAs, and he obtained his PhD in 2023 from the Technical University of Denmark, with a thesis on experimental exploration of the fundamental limits of light-matter interactions in dielectrics, specifically dielectric bowtie nanocavities with deep sub-wavelength confinement and mechanically tunable slot-mode waveguides, enabled by his development of a high-performance silicon nanometer-scale fabrication process..
Education
BSc in Physics from the University of Bath (UK) in 2017, MSc in Physics from the University of Copenhagen (DK) in 2019, PhD in Photonics Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark (DK).
Biography
Simone Bianconi is a postdoctoral scholar at EPFL in the group of Tobias Kippenberg at the Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum Measurements. His research interests focus on leveraging integrated photonics for laser ranging and sensing (e.g. LiDAR).
He was previously at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Caltech) as a postdoctoral fellow at the Microdevices Laboratory, where he worked on the research and development of innovative LiDAR and quantum sensing instrumentations.
He obtained his PhD from Northwestern University in 2021, with a thesis on novel devices for infrared detection and imaging, which was awarded the “Best PhD dissertation” departmental award.
Education
PhD
Applied Physics
Stanford University
2021
BASc
Engineering Science
University of Toronto
2015
Fields of expertise
Biography
Research interests
Photonic integrated circuits, terahertz optoelectronics, terahertz imaging systems.
Biography
Xurong Li received B.S. degree from Peking University in 2016. He obtained M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in Prof. Mona Jarrahi’s group in 2018 and 2022, respectively, working on terahertz optoelectronics and systems. He continued as a postdoc scholar in the same group from January 2023 to May 2024. Xurong joined the Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum Measurements (LPQM) in EPFL as a postdoctoral researcher in June 2024.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5679-045X
Google Scholar IDFields of expertise
Education
PhD
Design, fabrication and measurement of quantum devices based on superconducting circuits
Chalmers University
2016-2021
Yi Xia obtained his Ph.D. in optical sciences from the University of Arizona. His Ph.D. research focused on distributed quantum sensing with continuous-variable multipartite entangled states and quantum machine learning under the supervision of Prof. Zheshen Zhang. Then he stayed in the same group working on entanglement-enhanced optomechanical sensing in collaboration with Prof. Dalziel Wilson. Upon joining the LPQM at EPFL, he works on quantum optomechanics with ultra-coherent mechanical oscillators.
Education
PhD
Optical Sciences
University of Arizona
Biography
Yichi Zhang obtained his Ph.D. in optical sciences from the University of california, Davis in 2023. His PhD research focus is photonic integrated circuits for optical sensing and communication. Currently, Yichi Zhang is a postdoc researcher at EPFL in the group of Prof. Tobias Kippenberg at the Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum Measurements.
Scientific Assistants
Doctoral students
Research interests
Education
Thesis: Room temperature cavity optomechanics with high cooperativity systems
B.Sc. in Physics at Sharif University of Technology, Iran, 2018
B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering at Sharif University of Technology, Iran, 2018
Biography
Education
Bachelor | Physics | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) | 2018 – 2021
Education
Bachelor in Engineering Sciences
Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium
2013-2016
Master in Engineering Physics
Double degree program.
Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium
2016-2018
Master in Applied Physics and Physico-Informatics
Double degree program. Master thesis under the supervision of Professor Junko Hayase : “Quantum state tomography of ultrafast optical pulses at telecom wavelength by broadband balanced homodyne detection”
Keio University, Japan
2017-2019
Education
MSc in Electrical Engineering
Microwave and Optical Communications Major
Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Sep 2017-Dec 2019
BSc in Electrical Engineering
Communications Major
Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Sep 2013-Sep 2017
Biography
Xiaoyi Cheng is a doctoral student with a background in AMO physics from USTC. Prior to joining LPQM, he concentrated on free-space optical field modulation. His current research interests include quantum cavity electro-optics in the field of integrated photonics.
Education
Bachelor | Physics | University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) | 2020 – 2024
Education
2019-2021 MSc in Photonics and Quantum Materials, nanomaterials application for nonlinear optics, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
2015-2019 BSc in Physics, Department of theoretical physics, particles and field theory, Lomonosov Moscow State University
Fields of expertise
Nonlinear optics, lasers, optical frequency combs
Fields of expertise
Biography
Education
Master
Applied Physics
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
2019 – 2021
Bachelor
Applied Physics
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
2015 – 2019
Biography
Education
Master Degree in Physics, EPFL 2019-2021
Bachelor’s Degree in Physics
Wuhan University 2015-2019
Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 2017-2019
Education
Master Degree in Physics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology 2022
Bachelor’s Degree in Physics
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology 2016-2020
Graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China with a bachelor’s degree in optics. Currently working on LiNbO3 integrated photonic device and related nanofabrication technology.
Education
Master’s Degree in Microengineering
EPFL 2021-2023
Bachelor’s Degree in Electronic Science and Technology
Zhejiang University 2017-2021
Education
Bachelor of Science
Mathematics and Physics
Tsinghua University, Beijing
2019
Biography
Biography
Biography
Biography
Zhuoya Yuan graduated from Tsinghua University with a bachelor’s degree. Before joining LPQM, she was fascinated by external-cavity laser frequency-locking techniques.
Education
B.Eng in Electronic Information Science and Technology
Tsinghua University, 2021-2025
Junyin Zhang graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2022 with a bachelor’s degree in physics and a graduation project on inertial electrostatic confinement fusion. Before joining LPQM he was fascinated by several research topics, including the combination of machine learning and statistical physics, and optomechanics like Brillouin scattering.
Biography
Shuhang Zheng is a PhD student with a background in opto-electronic science and engineering from Zhejiang University. Before joining LPQM he was fascinated by several research topics, including optical phased array with LNOI and algorithms on place recognition for automous driving. Now, his research interests include quantum cavity electro-optics. and the application of ferroelectric materials at cryogenic temperatures.
Education
Bachelor’s Degree (2020-2024)
Major: Opto-electronic Science and Engineering
University: Zhejiang University
Fields of expertise
Biography
Since 2021, Alessio is Ph.D. student at EPFL in the group of Tobias Kippenberg at the Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum Measurements (K-Lab).
Education
BSc in Physics
Bachelor’s Degree in Physics
University of Rome “La Sapienza”
2016-2019
MSc in Theoretical Physics
Master’s Degree in Theoretical Physics, with emphasis on QED, QFT and General Relativity topics.
University of Rome “La Sapienza”
2019-2021