Microphotonics
Levitational Photonics

Spirals in the microworld

We developed a novel method for characterization of non=linearly squeezed states of the optically levitated nanoparticle based on the description of such a state by the Fermat's spiral. continue
19.9.2025 - Levitational Photonics

Nanomechanical state amplifier

In our recent article “Nanomechanical state amplifier based on optical inverted pendulum” (Communications Physics, 2025), we present an experimentally verified protocol for the linear amplification of a nanomechanical state achieved by rapid switching between a parabolic and an inverted parabolic potential. continue
3.7.2025 - Levitational Photonics

Invitation to a lecture

The Department of Microphotonics, Institute of Photonics of the CAS cordially invites you to a lecture by Dr. Alejandro Vasquez Arzola on “Trapping in Evanescent Fields with Angular Momentum” on May 20, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. in the lecture hall of the Institute of Photonics of the CAS continue
19.5.2025 - Levitational Photonics

Nanoparticles levitating in light beams reveal secrets of nonlinear dynamics of open systems

The Levitation Photonics research team led by Ota Brzobohatý from the Institute of Physics of the CAS has prepared a universal tool that allows to dynamically change the nature of light interaction between nanoparticles and to observe the so-called nonlinear behaviour of an open (non-Hermitian) system. continue
5.8.2024 - Levitational Photonics

Unraveling underlying order from its noisy fingerprints

The team of Levitational photonics developed a new method for quantification of experimental parameters stochastic inertial systems (such as quantum opto-mechanical systems) using the short record of their noisy trajectories. continue
22.6.2023 - Levitational Photonics

OPTICA 08/2022 – publication of the article

about the research of an international team, which includes scientists from the ISI CAS. continue
29.8.2022 - Levitational Photonics

Levitated timepiece sets new benchmark

Collaborating teams of scientists from the University of St Andrews in Scotland and the Institute of Scientific Instruments of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Brno manufactured a new type of mechanical “clock” composed of a birefringent sphere of the size of a blood cell oscillating in a light trap. continue
5.6.2020 - Levitational Photonics

New publication in ACS Photonics

The team of Levitational photonics created colloidal waveguides from a one-dimensional chain of polystyrene micro-spheres and showed their unusual photonic properties. continue
6.3.2019 - Levitational Photonics

New publication in Nano Letters

The precise and reliable manipulation of single or multiple nanostructures has important consequences for contemporary nanoscience. continue
13.12.2018 - Levitational Photonics

Stochastic processes and thermodynamics of unstable systems

Leviational photonics team introduced a new approach for description of random processes in unstable systems. The research was published in Physical Review Letters. continue
5.12.2018 - Levitational Photonics

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