PhD in Photonic Fluids & Frequency Comb Dynamics

ETH Zurich; Zürich; On-site; CHF 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

ETH Zurich facilities

PhD program

Cleanroom access

Job summary

ETH Zurich invites applications for a PhD project on liquid-light dynamics and frequency comb photonics. The successful candidate will design and fabricate semiconductor photonic devices, build optical setups, perform precision measurements, and develop nonlinear dynamics models.

The project connects device physics, experiments, and theory, with access to our state-of-the-art cleanroom and laser facilities, offering broad expertise within a single PhD program.

Qualifications

• Strong background in physics and/or electrical engineering, photonics, or a closely related field.
• Interest in combining fabrication, experimental work, and theory/simulations.
• Experience with cleanroom fabrication, optical experiments, lasers or numerical modelling is helpful but not required.

Responsibilities

• Designing and fabricating semiconductor photonic devices using cleanroom processes and characterizing them electrically and optically.
• Building and operating advanced laser and optical measurement setups to study temporal dynamics and coherence.
• Developing theoretical and numerical models to describe nonlinear laser dynamics and guide experiments.

Skills

Physics background

Electrical engineering

Photonics

Experimentation

Modelling

Tools

Cleanroom fabrication

Job description

ETH Zurich invites applications for a PhD project on liquid-light dynamics and frequency comb photonics. The successful candidate will design and fabricate semiconductor photonic devices, build optical setups, perform precision measurements, and develop nonlinear dynamics models.

The project connects device physics, experiments, and theory, with access to our state-of-the-art cleanroom and laser facilities, offering broad expertise within a single PhD program.