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| NAME | DESCRIPTION |
| 5th Institute of Physics | Atom and Quantum Optics New Optical Materials and Technologies: Introduction-Single and paired Photon emission from II-VI and III-V Quantum Dots Investigation and design of the Oscillator Strength of InP Quantum Dot |
| Applied Laser Physics and Laser Spectroscopy | New single-molecule fluorescence techniques Molecular photonic devices Measuring distances beyond the diffraction limit Physics of Single Molecule Processes in Biology Conformational Dynamics of Biomolecules Ultra-Analytics for Diagnostic Applications |
| Applied Semiconductor Physics Group | Optoelectronics High Pressure Semiconductors Magnetic fields |
| Bremer Institut fόr angewandte Strahltechnik BIAS | Materials processing with lasers Optical metrology and testing |
| Center for Applied Photonics | Nanostructuring of surfaces via Intense Laser Pulses Optical properties of Nano-granular High-index materials Femtosecond Photoelectron Spectroscopy of mass-selected clusters and nanoparticles Compact Femtosecond fibre Lasers Entanglement in Quantum Information technology Photon-Electron interaction in Nanoscale Semiconductor-Metal Composite Structures Nonlinear Confocal Microscopy with Novel Femtosecond Laser sources Dynamic Multiple Scattering of Light as a Non-invasive tool for Functional Neurophysiological Imaging. |
| Center for Functional Nanostructures | Nano-Photonics (Photonic crystals) Spin injection into optically active nanostructures High Density Integrated Optics) Nano-Electronics (Fabrication and characterization of metallic nanostructures Electron transport in nanostructures Nano-electronic devices) Molecular Nanostructures (Synthesis and characterization of molecule-based nanostructures Physical and chemical properties of isolated molecule-based nanostructures Molecule-based nanostructures with applications for photonics Electronics Spintronics Site-selective coupling on surfaces) Nanostructured Materials (melting Wetting Sintering Composite nanocrystalline materials via nanopore filling Selective production of functional nanomaterials) Nano-Biology (Transport of functional nanoparticles through membranes Design of nanostructured surfaces for manipulating cells) |
| Center for Optoelectronics and Spectroscopy | Nonlinear confocal microscopy Optical spectroscopy on single quantum dots STM-induced PL/PC-Spectroscopy Single Photon sources Single quantum dot Photo diodes Spin-based phenomena Optically detected Electron-hole-transport Quantum computing with Quantum dots: Quantum bits on a string |
| Chair for Technology of Optical Systems | Optical Laser Systems Optical Systems in Laser Beam Sources High-performance diode lasers |
| Chair of Optics | Interferometry and Microscopy Quantum Information Processing Optical 3D-Metrology Quantum Information Theory Optical design Microoptics Optical communication Nonlinear Optics Optical Metamaterials |
| Chair of Physics | High Definition Laserspectroscopy Spectral Hole Burning |
| Department of Physics | Interaction of quantized matter (atoms ions) and quantized radiation (photons) Basic research and potential applications in Quantum Optics (Group Audretsch). Investigation of coherent phonons Ultrafast time-resolved STM Time-resolved investigation of carrier relaxation in semic. quantum structures Generation and application of THz radiation Mode-locking scheme for femtosecond MIR lasers Degenerate femtosecond OPO for highly precise ultrastable opt. frequency distribution Darkness in optical labs (Dekorsy) Femtosecond Quantum Optics with Solid State Nanostructures Multi Terahertz Physics and Technology Novel Femtosecond Light Sources and Applications Ultrafast Magneto-Optics (Leitenstorfer) |
| Department of Physics | Astro Physics Biophysics Solid State Physics Nuclear Particle and Mathematical Physics Laser- and Quantum Optics |
| Ferdinand-Braun-Institut fόr Hφchstfrequenztechnik | Design, fabrication, characterization of laser diodes (0,63-1,12 nm) on III/V-semiconductor layer structures for: materials processing, precision metrology, medicine, non-linear optics and sensor technology |
| Fraunhofer Institut Biomedizinische Technik IBMT | Miniaturization of sensoric and fluidic systems based on silicon or plastics |
| Fraunhofer Institut fόr Angewandte Polymerforschung | Functional Polymer Systems for electronic and optical applications. |
| Fraunhofer Institute for Lasertechnology | Laser irradiation sources Plasma irradiation sources Simulation, modelling Process-Knowhow Measuring and testing technology Customized system technology |
| Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology (IPT) | Laser beam applications: Laser beam joining Laser surface handling Rapid manufacturing Laser-assisted machining Laser beam structuring |
| Fraunhofer-Institut fόr Nachrichtentechnik | Advancing Optical transport networks for Broadband Internet (Optical Networks) High Speed Photodetectors Planar Photodetector DWDM&CWDM Laser 40GHz Mode-locked Laser Module Laser and LED Technology DFB Laser for Spectroscopy Optoclock 40GH Polymer based OICs (Photonic Components |
| Institut for Experimental Physics | Light Detecting and Ranging - Aerosol LiDaR (Atmospheric backscattering LiDaR) - fs-LiDaR Teramobile (Femtosecond-LiDaR) |
| Institut fόr Medizinische Physik und Lasermedizin | Laser applications in medicine (Biophotonics) Optical and thermal processes with the diffusion of light in biological tissues incl. optical, diagnostical imaging, spectroscopy, microscopy New medical applications of light in diagnostic and therapy Biomedical technique. |
| Institut fόr Physik, Interdisziplinδres Zentrum fόr Photonik | Quantum optics - Optical implementations in quantum information science - Distillation of photonic entanglement - Phosphorescent polymer light-emitting diodes - Excited state dynamics at polymer-polymer interfaces - The effect of electron-phonon coupling on energy transfer and emission efficiency Laser Spectroscopy and Advanced Optical Sensing - from Molecules over Nanoscopic Materials to in-vivo Intracellular Imaging - Nonlinear Laser spectroscopy - Nonlinear elements - New lasers |
| Institut fόr Strahlwerkzeuge | Laser development and Optics Beam shaping and process fundamentals Laser materials processing techniques (ablating, drilling, joining) |
| Institut fόr Technische Optik | 3D-Surface Metrology Active Optical Systems - SLM, High-resolution Metrology and Simulation - HMS, Interferometry and Diffractive Optics Coherent Metrology |
| Institut fόr Theoretische Physik | Ultrafast Nano-Optics (Photonic Crystals Ultrafast pulse propagation Generation of whitelight supercontinua in tapered optical fibres White light lasers and their applications) Microstructure/Nanostructure Lab (Metamaterials Plasmonic nanomaterials Red surface emitting laser diodes AIGaN/GaN field effects transistors Time-resolved photoluminescence and excitation spectroscopy on laser structures and semiconductor quantum dots) |
| Institut of Quantum Optics | Quantum Optics Theory - Quantum Field Theory of Atoms and Photons - Quantum Information, Atom Optics and Laser Medicine - Atom Optics and Laser Cooling, Laser Medicine Molecules and Lasers - Molecular Spectroscopy - Iodine as a secondary frequency standard - Cold Molecules Femtosecond and Laser Optics - Generation of few-cycle pulses Diode pumped solid-state lasers - Laser-Imaging - Laser-Matter interaction XUV-Lasers and Non-linear Optic - High order non-linear processes - XUV lasers and plasmas |
| Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering | Multi-functional optical multi-layers Micro-structured surfaces Characterizing of surfaces and coatings Micro-optical systems Waveguide optics fibre lasers and their application Optical measurement systems and sensors Systems for optics-characterization Fine mechanical precision systems Procedures of optics assembly |
| Institute for Applied Solid State Physics | Design of semiconductor devices and circuits III-V-Technology (fabrication of devices and integrated circuits) III-V-Epitaxy (fabrication of epilayer structures by MBE and MOCVD CVD diamond (chemical vapor deposition of synthetic diamond layers) |
| Institute for Experimental Physics, Laser- and Nuclear Physics | What is a plasma? Experimental setup Absorption spectroscopy Thomson scattering Langmuir probe FIR interferometer Modelling Flarelab |
| Institute for High-frequency technology and Semiconductor-System technology | Adaptive dispersion compensation in high bitrate fibre-optic transmission systems Integrated optics based on SOI (silicon on insulator) Polarisation-mode dispersion and polarisation-dependent loss in optical communication systems Transparent optical communication systems |
| Institute for Laser Physics | Basic and applied research on the interaction of light and matter Development of novel coherent light sources and corresponding detection and preparation techniques |
| Institute for Material and Beam Technology | Laser processing technology Coating processes Material technological analysis Simulation techniques, System engineering |
| Institute for Optics and Quantum Electronics | Interaction of ultraintense femtosecond laser pulses with matter Spectroscopy and control of physical and chemical processes pulses in the visible range Generation and measurement of ultrashort pulses with wavelength in the visible an x-ray range Nonlinear optics with new materials, X-ray spectroscopy, especially diagnostics of plasmas, X-ray diffraction and x-ray topography |
| Institute for Optics, Information and Photonics | Photonics and precision measurement Photonics and new materials |
| Institute for Photonic Microsystems | Design System on Chip Micro Scanning Mirrors MEMS Spatial Light Modulators Innovative Transponder Microsystems according to ISO Organic Materials and Systems Sensors Signal Processing Systems Process development and fabrication (fabr. of micro scanning mirrors) Lifetronics (Photo Plethysmography Sensor) |
| Institute for Solid State Physics | Fabrication, characterization and theoretical modelling of quantum dots, investigation of photonic devices Emphasis on self-organized or self-assembled structures Processing of quantum dot lasers Nanotechnology for full colour laser television Semiconductor lasers for green spectrum. |
| Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films | Surface technology, coatings Novel coating systems, thin-film analytics, plasma technology Ultraprecision layers for ophtalmics, telecommunications and lithography Multilayer systems for optical mirrors and filters Coatings for display applications, for optical and magnetic storage Laser transformable coating systems for optoelectronic applications |
| Institute of Applied Optics | Infrared Optical Metroscopy Optical Metrology Optical Data storage and -processing |
| Institute of Applied Physics | Nonlinear Magnetic Dynamics - Spin-wave bullets - Symmetry breaking spin-wave Mφbius solutions Magnetic Dynamics in Nanostructures - Radiation of spin waves by magnetic memory elements - Spin waves in magnetic elements with domain structures Nonlinear Photonics - Volume holographic data storage - Transverse pattern formation - Spatial optical solitons - Novelty filter and image processing Nonlinear Optics and Quantum Optics Nonlinear Systems and Pattern formation - General research - Gas Discharge System - Numerical and analytical developments - Applications |
| Institute of Applied Physics | All solid state lasers Amplitude and phase masks Calibration tools fibre and waveguide lasers and amplifiers Integrated optical devices Advanced micro- and nano-processing technology Microoptics (refractive/diffractive) Nonlinear optical devices Physical optical elements for optical information and communication technology, medicine and biology, process technology including material processing and optical measurement |
| Institute of Applied Physics | Semiconductor Lasers and waveguides - Microscopy - Physics of thin films Excimer Lasers - CO2 Lasers - Optics Modelling and design - Ion Lasers - Plasma Focus Ultra-cold gases - Quantum information - Development and application of lasers and environmental sensing using lasers |
| Institute of Applied Physics | Physics of Semiconductor Nanostructures/Semiconductor Optics Semiconductor Epitaxy Ultrafast Spectroscopy Spectroscopy with High Spatial Resolution Scanning Probe Microscopy Photonic Materials |
| Institute of Condensed Matter Physics | Nonlinear Spin-Dynamics Statistical Physics and Complex Systems Optical Solid State-Spectroscopy Magnetic Core resonance Multi particles Soft matter and Environmental Physics Solid state physics Experimental Physics of Condensed Matte Diffusion in Metal Hydrides and Oxidic Ceramics Nonlinear Dynamic and Statist. Physics |
| Institute of Electrical and Optical Communications Engineering | Integrated Circuits - Design and test of digital and analog integrated circuits for information and communication technology - Modellingof high frequency transistors Optical Communications Engineering - Theoretical and experimental analysis of components for analog and digital optical data communication |
| Institute of High-Frequency and Quantum Electronics | Photonic communications and microwave applications Design, fabrication and system level testing of latest high-speed photonic devices and concepts High-speed optical telecommunications research in the 10, 40 and 160 Gb/s range Nonlinear optical communications research Photonic crystal and nanophotonic device research |
| Institute of Laser and System Technologies | Consulting to: - Laser Ablation - Laser Ceramic Sintering - Laser Rapid Manufacturing - Laser Remote Welding. Laser and System technologies - Systems for Quality Evaluation |
| Institute of Physics | Thin films, amorph and liquid systems Laser Spectroscopy - Semiconductor interfaces - Organic Molecules and Solid States - Ion Stores - Reactional Dynamic Theoretical Basics |
| Institute of Physics 2 | Spectroscopy on highly correlated transition-metal oxides and thin films: - X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) - Photoemission (XPS, UPS) - Resonant Photoemission - Resonant scattering in the soft X-ray region - Molecular beam epitaxy |
| Institute of Solid State Theory and Solid State Optics | Atomic structure and energetics of bulk phases - defects and surfaces - Lattice dynamics - Optical and dielectric properties - Elementary excitations - Nanostructures: quantum wells - superlattices - quantum wires - quantum dots - clusters - Influence of strong external fields and many-body interactions - Structure and physical properties of biomolecules in gas phase and on surface Nanooptics - Non-linear cavities - Solitons - Discrete Systems |
| Institute of Theoretical Physics | Nonlinear dynamics and pattern formation Transport theory: molecular dynamics, anisotropic fluids Nonlinear optics and quantum electronics of semiconductors Nonlinear dynamics in semiconductors |
| International Max-Planck-Research School (IMPRS) | Semiconductor Lasers and waveguides - Microscopy - Physics of thin films Excimer Lasers - CO2 Lasers - Optics Modelling and design - Ion Lasers - Plasma Focus Ultra-cold gases - Quantum information - Development and application of lasers and environmental sensing using lasers |
| ISF - Welding and Joining Institute | Arc Welding Resistance Spot Welding and Projection Welding Beam Welding Robots and Sensor Systems Computers in welding Micro-Joining |
| Laser Physics and Photonics | Novel laser designs and applications (Material processing, Molecular Beam Epitaxy) New laser sources and applications (Ultra Stable Laser source, Broad Bandwith source, CW-Thz Radiation, Optical frequency comb technique, Optical Coherence Tomography) |
| Laser Zentrum Hannover e. V. | R&D projects in the field of laser development and laser applications Technical and scientific consulting to link research and practice Industry-oriented training of experts for applying and operating laser systems : Laser metrology Highly-stable coatings with slightest optical losses Special coatings on polymers and semiconductor lasers Diode-pumped solid-state lasers Ultrashort pulse lasers Tunable laser systems for spectroscopy Highly-stable solid-state lasers for metrology fibre lasers and fibre amplifier systems Frequency conversion and (shafting) wave-guiding of laser radiation Lasers for medicine technology Non-linear optics Laser system inspections and safety-related consulting |
| Laserlaboratorium Gφttingen LLG | High intensity laser technology Laser micro materials processing Combustion and flow-diagnostic Optics and thin film lab Environmental sensing Nonlinear optics |
| Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy | Laser research Ultrafast and nonlinear phenomena (atoms, molecules, clusters, plasma, solids, surfaces) Scientific Infrastructure (Short Pulse and High Field Lasers) |
| Max-Planck-Institut fόr Biophysikalische Chemie | Nanometer spatial resolution in light microscopy Optical engineering (design of optical systems and instruments) |
| Max-Planck-Institut of Quantum Optics | Basic experimental and theoretical research in the field of light-matter interaction Development of new laser techniques and their application in atomic and plasma physics Precision spectroscopy applied to the hydrogen atom (antihydrogen atom) and to single trapped ions Study of quantum processes in the interaction of radiation with single atoms in cavities Experiments with laser-cooled, ultra-cold atoms for the study of atom optics and Bose-Einstein condensation Study of quantum phenomena in molecular physics and chemistry Radiation-interaction of ultrashort laser pulses with matter and the investigation of molecular processes on surfaces using laser methods. |
| Medizinisches Laserzentrum Lόbeck GmbH | Optical Diagnostics (OCT) Biomedical Sciences Technology in-vivo Microscopy Laser Therapy Laser Security Micromaterial Processing Cytology Laser metrology |
| Optical and Electronical Materials | Materials of Electrical Engineering and Optics |
| Optical Communication Technology | Fibre optics - Optical propagation of signals, coupling, polarization, birefringence, scattering - Reflectometry in fibres, in fibre optical and integrated optical components: with short pulses, with lasers, with correlation methods - Fabrication of fibres and of optical components with or in fibres: couplers, polarizers, reflectors - Q-switched, mode-locked, tuneable fibre lasers Integrated optics - Design, fabrication and characterization of optical components in LiNbO3 and glass: modulators, frequency shifters, reflectors, polarizers, couplings, filters, etc - Fibre optical sensors for industrial and scientific applications: for position, pressure, temperature, particle densities, refractive index, dust particles, .. Facilities - Optics for wavelengths 0.2-30 ΅m - Electronics up to 10GHz - Photolitography down to 1 ΅m - Technology for the treatment of glass and crystals: fibre drawing, vapour plating, sputtering |
| Optical Technologies and Laser-controlled Processes (OTLAP) | Modern Optical Technologies Laser Technology -Laser Metrology -Optoelectronics -Nonlinear optical processes, Solar Cells Quantum Optics and laser- based research Development and application of laser methods in Quantum optics -Nonlinear optics -Matter-wave optics -Dispersing processes -Spectroscopy) Biophotonics: Biosensors -Biotechnological Metrology -Photo-induced processes -Biological Molecules -Reaction dynamics |
| Optics Institute | Diode pumped Solid state Lasers High Power Lasers and Phase Conjugation Stimulated Raman Scattering Ultrafast Spectroscopy Photosynthesis Thin film optical coatings Optical data storage and processing Research centre "FSP Photonik" (Laser). Atomic Physics Molecular and Environmental Physics Lasers in Medicine Raman-SERS (Laserspectr.). Beam characterization and transformation Degenerate mode systems Frequency conversion and non-linear optics Diode pumped solid state lasers Theoretical optics (High Power Laser Systems...). Optical sensors Material engineering Optics in communication and lighting (Photonics). |
| Optik-Zentrum Konstanz | Optical Microscopy Nonlinear Optics and Quantum Optics Atom Optics Optics and Interfaces |
| Optodynamics Research Center | Investigations of the light-matter interaction in organic and inorganic systems - especially semiconductors and biological systems Semiconductor Systems - Material production - Material characterization - Experimental analysis - Theoretical understanding and modelling) Organic Systems : Influencing of optodynamical processes by self-organisation Surfaces: Surface-sensitive ultrashorttime spectroscopy, Second harmonic generation, five-wave-mixing Biological systems: In vivo photoreception Photochemical primary reactions of blue light receptors |
| Optoelectronics Department | VCSELs and Optical Interconnects - Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) - Optical interconnects - Optical sensing applications - High-speed electro-modulated laser sources GaN-based Electronics and Optoelectronics: - Epitaxy of AlGaInN heterostructures - Short wavelength light emitters and lasers - GaN high electron mobility transistors High-Power Semiconductor Lasers - High-power diode lasers and amplifiers - Monolithic integration using etched mirrors - Unstable-resonator lasers - Optically-pumped semiconductor disk lasers |
| Physics Department | Oxidic crystals and surface physics: - Oxidic crystals for electro- and magneto-optical applications, - Microstructure of oxidic crystals - Nonlinear optical materials - Synthesis and characterisation of surfaces and interfaces assembled from clusters and molecules |
| Physics Institute | Particle Physics Solid-state physics Macromolecules / Complex systems Optics/Photonics |
| Physikalisches Institut | Studies of the dynamics of elementary excitations in atomic and molecular physics, cluster and surface physics Photoelectron spectroscopy and mass spectroscopy together with femtosecond laser techniques Combination of ultrashort laser techniques with scanning tunneling microscopy |
| Research Association Lasertechnology Erlangen (FLE) | Adaptive optical system for dynamic beam forming and focal adjustment Integrated manufacturing by forming joining and cutting Laser technology and systems engineering - Laser droplet welding for materials of medical technology Microoptics - Development of a fibre collimator array for optical rotary joints - Laser Beam Forming on Extensive Plates - Laser beam sintering - Process control for zero-defect laser beam welding of contaminated steel sheets - Selective and simultaneous laser based soldering in electronics - Self learning multivariate diagnostics and control of laser materials processing - Sensor based UV laser therapy of inflammatory viral and premalignant skin diseases - Zero-defect laser beam welding of zinc-coated sheet steel |
