Congratulations to Christian who recently managed to defend his PhD thesis succesfully! Lots of thanks go to Urbana Champagne, Illinois, to André Schleife who supported Christians very advanced and elaborous optics simulations a lot. The thesis can be found online and parts of it were already published [bibcite key=wagner2016empirical,kolchuzhin2014system,wagner2012dft,wagner2012nanomechanics].