Nano-Optics Lab. Credit: Bart van Overbeeke

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

Our main techniques are:

• Confocal fluorescence microscopy and spectroscopy, covering the visible, near infrared, and mid-infrared.
• Hyperspectral imaging (fluorescence, Raman, reflection, transmission).
• Fluorescence lifetime and photon correlation measurements.
• Polarization-resolved fluorescence, with linear or circular polarization.
• Back focal plane imaging with polarization resolution for acquiring angular radiation patterns.
• Fluorescence excitation spectroscopy with a continuous-wave optical parametric oscillator.
• 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, and other (semi-)analytical methods.