PHD POSITION

Master thesis: Stochastic thermodynamics of cooperative optical sensing

Deadline: 16 Dec 2026 · 34 days left

Institution: AMOLF
City: Amsterdam
Country: Netherlands
Field: Physics and astronomy
Type: research
Deadline: 16 Dec 2026 · 34 days left

About this position

Work Activities Are two coupled optical cavities better than one for sensing? If so, how? And at what thermodynamic cost? In this project, you will answer these questions, experimentally and theoretically, by combining recent breakthroughs from our group at the crossroads of nanophotonics and statistical physics. You will perform experiments with single and coupled tunable optical cavities, allowing to easily, remotely, and swiftly, read out the presence of a perturbation using light. The perturbation will initially be a dielectric nanoparticle. If sufficiently large sensitivities are realized

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