Professor Jörg P. Kotthaus
Professor of Experimental Physics, Ludwig Maximilian University, Nanophysics group, Munich, Germany.

We are collaborating with the group of Prof. Kotthaus, within the frame of the Center for NanoScience, for the microfabrication of micro-optomechanical systems.

website: http://www.nano.physik.uni-muenchen.de/

Professor Wilhelm Zwerger
Scientific group leader in theoretical condensed matter physics and many-body systems, Technical University of Munich, Germany.

We are collaborating with the theoretical physics research group of Prof. Zwerger is on the quantum theory of opto-mechanical interactions in micro-mechanical resonators

website: http://www.physik.tu-muenchen.de/lehrstuehle/T34/

Professor Joachim Rädler
Professor of Experimental Physics, Ludwig Maximilian University, Soft condensed matter group, Munich, Germany.

We are collaborating with the Biophysics Division of Joachim Raedler at the LMU on label free, detection of single molecules using monolithic microresonoators

website: http://www.softmatter.physik.uni-muenchen.de/tiki-index.php?page=Home

Professor Kerry J. Vahala
Ted Jenkins Professor of Information Science and Technology, California Institute of Technology, Department of Applied Physics, Pasadena, USA.

The Vahala Research group is concerned with ultra-high-Q optical microcavities and their application in diverse areas of science and technology, and has pioneered UHQ chip based cavities.

website: http://www.its.caltech.edu/~vahalagr

Photo credit: Caltech Quantum Optics Group

Professor Jeff Kimble
Valentine Professor of Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA.

The Quantum Optics Group at the California Institute of Technology is concerned with employing the high-Q and small mode volume of toroid microcavities to pursue cavity QED strong coupling experiments.

website: http://www.its.caltech.edu/~qoptics

Professor Albert Polman
Scientific group leader and director of the Center for Nanophotonics at the FOM-Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

The Center for Nanophotonics at the FOM-Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics is concerned with Ion beam implantation of Rare earth and silicon ions for the study of silicon nanocrystal and erbium doped microcavities.

website: http://www.amolf.nl/polman/news.html