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About Qlibri

With years of experience, Qlibri enables companies and researchers to use the full power of optical micro-cavities quickly and efficiently.


History

During our work with fiber-based optical microresonators, we realized the enormous power of this technology and its great potential in many research areas. We want to cut down the complexity and time it takes to build and operate an optical fabry-perot microcavity to enable scientists from various fields to boost their research.

On this premise we develop complete setups including highly reflective mirros, mechanical design as well as electronics, software, and consulting to get our customers an operating microcavity setup in various environments as fast as possible. Our ultimate goal is to provide a "turn-key" solution that unlocks the power of optical microresonators in every laboratory.

Team

Qlibri originates from the groups of David Hunger at KIT, Alexander Högele, and Nobel prize laureate Theodor W. Hänsch at LMU Munich and the Max-Planck-Insitute of Quantum Optics, where fiber-based microresonators were pioneered.

Our team provides years of expertise in micro-cavity and nanophotonic research.

Founders: Dr. Thomas Hümmer, Dr. Jonathan Noé, Dr. Manuel Nutz, Dr. Michael Förg

We are lucky to be supported by excellent scientific advisors:

Prof. Theodor W. Hänsch, LMU  

Prof. David Hunger, KIT

Prof. Alexander Högele, LMU

 News & Milestones

03.2024
Booth @ APS march meeting

We have a booth at the march meeting of the American Physical Society in Minneapolis!

Funding for QlibriNANO

We are granted the prestigous EIC Transition grant from the European Innovation Council

11.2023
New cavity controllers

Years of hard work has now paid-off in our new powerful, ultra-low noise cavity controllers:  20-bit DACs, switchable digital and analogue filters, and fully FPGA-programmable 50MHz bandwidth data acquisition.

12.2022
Seeing the Unseen

Check out our new article about the capabilities of microscopy of nanomaterials based on optical microresonators published by Imaging & Microscopy!

11.2022
First Qlibri Quantum installation

Last week we successfully installed our first quantum optics platform in the labs of Klaus Jöns at Universität Paderborn. It was an exciting experience. Thanks to all who contributed.



Paper on defects in 2D-semiconductors

Want to see an example of how we measure the tiniest amount of absorption in nanoscale structures? Read our latest publication and learn about one of the many applications of our cavity-enhanced optical microscope! Thanks to our collaborators at the Walter Schottky Institute!

09.2022
Watch conference talk

Qlibri participated in the workshop 'Bridging the Gap: Nano meets Quantum' in Venice organised by CeNS and MCQST. It was a wonderful event. For all who missed the opportunity to join, you can watch the talk of our CEO Jonathan Noé online now.


07.2022
New project

Qlibri is part of the Muquabis project. It is using quantum-bio-sensing and bio-imaging in order to overcome the limitations of state-of-the-art tools for cardiac imaging and spectroscopy. 

06.2022
We are hiring

Due to strong customer demand we are quickly expanding. For physicists, electrical and mechanical engineers and administrative staff we offer unique experience in creating fundamentally new awesome tools for cutting edge research! See open positions and just get in touch with us!




05.2022
Qlibri GmbH is incorporated

Qlibri GmbH is founded.

07.2021
Qlibri joins Quantum repeater research project

Qlibri is part of the project QR.X for developing a quantum repeater link based on color centers in diamond. We will contribute a stable, actively length-locked and flexible micro-cavity that can be interfaced with microwave and RF-bias lines.


08.2020
Milestone in microscopy sensitivity

News from the lab: First complete hyperspectral microscopy image with noise floor well below 0.001% recorded in less than a second.

First cavity fiber mirrors delivered

Our first micro-mirrors are delivered to our research customers in the US and Spain.

06.2020
Prestigious start-up funding

We received the prestigious EXIST Forschungstransfer start-up grant from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK).



09.2019
Live absorption measurement at conference fair booth

We had our first booth at the industry exhibition of the Quantum Science and Information Technologies Fall meeting of the German physical society (DPG). We showed a live demonstration of absorption microscopy of carbon nanotubes resolving absorption at the 0.0001% level.

06.2019
Award

We received the prestigious Nano innovation Award from the Center for NanoScience (CeNS).



03.2019
Live absorption measurement on conference

4.3.2019 On the Single-Molecule Sensors and NanoSystems International Conference we showed the first life absorption measurement of our microscope. 

02.2019
Live stable cavity resonator on conference

We love the challenge. Where other exhibtors just bring dummies to their booths we demonstrated on the European Quantum Technologies Conference in Grenoble 100fmresonator stability of our fully scannable cavity quantum platform (during the noisy poster session and in our hotel room).



10.2018
The Idea: a company dedicated to micro-cavities

The idea to build a company offering researchers and industry the power around fiber micro-cavities is born at the LMU in Munich.