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11. – 17.06.2017, Princeton, NJ For building a broader basis for future collaboration, PRISM and SAOT established the PRISM-SAOT Summer School which was first held in Princeton from the 11th to the 17th of June 2017. PRISM and SAOT are both conducting research in the fields of laser material proc...

The poster contribution "Mass Diffusivities of Binary Mixtures of Normal Alkanes with Dissolved Gases" by Cédric Giraudet, Tobias Klein, Michael H. Rausch, Thomas M. Koller, and Andreas P. Fröba was awarded for the Best Poster Presentation during the VII International Conference Diffusion Fundamenta...

As part of an international collaboration with Universities in Trento and Jena, SAOT Member Martin Wimmer and coworkers observed topology effects in an optical fiber system. As the researchers reported in Nature Physics wave packets moving through a fiber network are influenced by its topology expre...

Professor Dr.-Ing. Andreas Maier managed to earn an excellent second place at the academics-competition Young Researcher Award 2016. It is an competition all over Germany, incluiding contenders from all scientific disciplines. The price which is renumerated with € 5.000 is awarded the tenth time....

The 2016 SAOT Video Competition is now open for submissions. Good luck!

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...