Dr. Schibli’s research is focused on precision optical metrology and the discovery of novel tools, methods, and materials that aid the progress in this field. Part of the current research effort is devoted towards optical precision measurements and a better understanding and controlling of the quantum noise limits in lasers and laser-based measurements. His group is working on extremely low phase noise systems (optical and microwave) and their applications in a large range of fields. Recent achievements span from pulsed lasers with record-low timing jitter, timing measurements in the yoctosecond regime, ultralow noise photonic microwave generation and characterization and the development and characterization of novel, ultra-compact optical atomic clocks. Current efforts are aimed in part at novel tomography methods for functional brain imaging and long-baseline optical interferometry for astrophysical observations.
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precision optical metrology, optical frequency combs, low-phase noise lasers, photonic microwave generation and characterization, optical and electronic properties of low-dimensional materials, ultrafast physics, ultrafast lasers, ultrafast materials, nonlinear optics, quantum optics, laser dynamics, frequency and time-resolved laser spectroscopy, atomic, molecular, and optical physics, AMO, high-resolution timing measurements, molecular clocks, compact optical clocks
