Tobias J. Kippenberg awarded an ERC Advanced Grant
credit: Alain Herzog/EPFL
Professor Tobias J. Kippenberg has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for the study of “Extremely Coherent Mechanical Oscillators and circuit Cavity Electro-Optics”
The quest for mechanical oscillators with ultralow dissipation is motivated by classical and quantum sensing and technology, as well as precision measurements.
The project proposes a new generation of strain-engineered crystalline and superconducting mechanical oscillators, whose Q-factors are predicted to exceed 100 billion in up to 2 dimensions.
Secondly, the project will explore a fundamentally new method for measurement and manipulation of microwave fields with optical fields – the nascent field of circuit Cavity-Electro-Optics (cCEO). Taken together, the study can open cCEO to usher in a new era of mechanical coherence within classical and quantum domains.