Project Details
Dimensional crossover in trapped photon gases (B06)
Subject Area
Optics, Quantum Optics and Physics of Atoms, Molecules and Plasmas
Term
since 2020
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 277625399
With a new experimental approach, the properties of trapped photon gases are investigated within the crossover between one and two spatial dimensions. Here it is of special interest to achieve the first one-dimensional photon gas by using a strongly asymmetric box-like potential. The technological base for the envisioned investigations is the possibility to imprint tailored potential landscapes by a particular coating of the cavity mirrors with photonic structures. The experimental implementation of the new setup will be accompanied by a theoretical modelling, with a special emphasize on the superfluid properties of the driven-dissipative photon gas.
DFG Programme
CRC/Transregios
Applicant Institution
Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau