Confocal microscope for the study of nanophotonic light-emitting structures, setup with PhD students Rasmus Godiksen & Kaylee Hakkel, Eindhoven University of Technology

Our lab specializes in nanophotonic structures made of bulk and atomically thin semiconductors.

Our main techniques are:

• Confocal fluorescence microscopy and spectroscopy, covering the ultraviolet, visible and near infrared.
  • Polarization-resolved fluorescence and Raman spectroscopies, with linear or circular polarization.
  • Fluorescence lifetime and photon correlation measurements.
  • Hyperspectral imaging (fluorescence, Raman, reflection, transmission).
• Back focal plane imaging with polarization resolution for acquiring angular radiation patterns.
• Low-temperature optical measurements with an optical microscopy cryostat.
• Modelling of the optical response of nanophotonic structures with:
  • 3D Maxwell’s equation solvers.
  • Mie theory.
  • Multipolar expansions.
  • Other (semi-)analytical methods.