Year: 2015

In 2013 Felix Tenner from the Lehrstuhl für Photonische Technologien won the SAOT INNOVATION AWARD. Recently one publication resulting from his innovative research idea was selected for the OSA Spotlight on Optics. Congratulations to Felix and to the research team! This is the publication: C....

In December 2015 Andreas Erdmann (SAOT MENTOR) has been informed on behalf of the SPIE Board of Directors and Fellows Committee, that he has just been elected to the grade of Fellow of SPIE! More information

On November 27th, 2015, Professor Marion Merklein (SAOT-PI) has been accepted as member of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften.

On November 4th, 2015, during the DIES ACADEMICUS, which is the annual birthday celebration event of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), the Wolfgang-Finkelnburg-Preis’2015 has been conferred on Andreas Bräuer. The Award is endowed by the Universitätsbund Erlangen-Nürnberg e...

"Observation of optical solitions in PT-symmetric lattices" is the title of an article by Martin Wimmer, Doctoral Candidate of SAOT, published in Nature Communications. The authors are Martin Wimmer, Alois Regensburger, Mohammad-Ali Miri, Christoph Bersch, Demetrios N. Christodoulides and Ulf Pesche...

20 Junior Researchers from the USA and UK are visiting FAU. In the context of the scholarship progamme RISE (Research Internship in Science and Education) offered by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) the junior researchers spend 12 weeks at the university. They work with doctoral candidate...

Anastasiia Solodovnyk, member of SAOT, has been awarded a 2015 Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics for her potential contributions to the field of optics, photonics or related field. She is working on the luminescent down-shifting...

A cooperative agreement between the College of Health & Human Performance, University of Florida and SAOT has been signed in February 2015. The collaboration has been initiated by Professor Oliver Friedrich, Chair Professor of the Institute of Medical Biotechnology and principal investigator ...