Nano Optics

Focus

The newly established Nano Optics group focuses on advancing the knowledge of light-matter interactions below the diffraction limit of light as well as development of novel experimental methods that address current topics in biology, biophysics, and biochemistry. Although we employ a wide range of procedures, our investigative toolbox is mainly comprised of single-particle and single-molecule optical techniques. In particular, approaches such as light microscopy, laser spectroscopy, quantum optics, near-field optics, and plasmonics are combined with chemical and bioanalytical methods and biotechnologies to achieve a robust array of exciting projects.

Relevant publications

1. S. Spindler, J. Ehrig, K. Koenig, T. Nowak, M. Piliarik, H. Stein, R. Taylor, E. Garanger, S. Lecommandoux, I. Alves, V. Sandoghdar, Visualization of lipids and proteins at high spatial and temporal resolution via interferometric scattering (iSCAT) microscopy, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 49 (2016) 349601.
2. M. Piliarik, V. Sandoghdar, Direct optical sensing of single unlabelled proteins and super-resolution imaging of their binding sites, Nature Communications 5 (2014) 4495.
3. J. Ortega Arroyo et al., Label-Free, All-Optical Detection, Imaging, and Tracking of a Single Protein, Nano Letters 14 (2014) 2065.
4. S. Weisenburger and V. Sandoghdar, Light Microscopy: An ongoing contemporary revolution, Contemporary Physics 56 (2015) 123.