Optical cavities and quantum emitters

Koks, C. (2024)

Doctoral Thesis

Optical cavities are useful tools to enhance the interaction between light and matter, which is important to make good quantum emitters. However, it turns out that the cavities themselves (without any quantum emitters) are already interesting objects to study. When these cavities become very small, non-paraxial effects become important to describe the eigenmodes of the cavity. This thesis describes both the theoretical predictions of the cavity and shows the corresponding experiments.

• Microcavities
• Nonparaxial optics
• Quantum optics

• All authors: Koks, C.
• Supervisor: Exter, M.P. van; Orrit, M.A.G.J.
• Committee: Rodriguez, S.R.K.; Wubs, M.; Eliel, E.R.; Kraft, D.J.; Molen, S.J. van der
• Qualification: Doctor (dr.)
• Awarding Institution: Leiden Institute of Physics (LION), Faculty of Science, Leiden University
• Date: 2024-01-25
• Title of host publication: Casimir PhD Series
• ISBN (print): 9789085935865
• Name: 2023-41