Imagine you have an exciting new research question in mind, but there is no fitting equipment to build the setup. So why not build it yourself? This question arose to a group of young scientists from FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. Their goal: measuring the diameter of stars.
The first real image of a bla...
Our modern information society is highly dependent on secure communication channels. The idea of encryption is to hide the original message by applying complex mathematical routines on it, which are almost impossible to revert unless the underlying key is known. Quantum key distribution (QKD) offers...
Beobachte die Lichtpunkte an der Wand und bring sie zum Tanzen! Lerne, wie aus einem Laserstrahl viele werden, und wie man damit nicht nur Smartphones, sondern auch Atome vermessen kann.
Was haben dein Smartphone-Bildschirm und das 3D-Kino gemeinsam? Sieh es dir an, auf einem Monitor, auf dem nichts zu sehen ist. Außer, man setzt die richtige Brille auf…
Glow-in-the-Dark-Sticker und leuchtende T-Shirts im Schwarzlicht. Welche Physik steckt dahinter? Wozu können wir sie nutzen? Finde es heraus, bring Buchstaben zum Leuchten und speichere deine Schattenspiele.
Birgit Stiller is an independent group leader at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light. Previously, she has been a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Sydney in Australia for 4 years on the subject of integrated photonic circuits. Before that, she was a postdoc in quantum optics...
Optical quantum technologies will shape the 21st century and have a profound impact on technological and economic developments worldwide. They are used in quantum communication, but also in quantum metrology and quantum computing. In Erlangen, the Department of Physics at FAU and the Max Planck ...
Maria Chekhova obtained her PhD at the Lomonosov University Moscow in 1989, for a work on polariton spectroscopy, and stayed there as a researcher and a group leader. Her habilitation thesis in 2004 dealt with the polarization and spectral properties of two-photon light. From 1997 to 2009, she worke...
Joachim von Zanthier leads the group Quantum Optics and Quantum Information at the Physics Department of FAU. His group investigates multi-photon states, fragile states of light which carry additional information about the emitting sample. Multi-photon interferences can be used, for example, to imag...
Hanieh Fattahi received her PhD in Physics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. After graduation in 2016, she received the Minerva fast-track scholarship of the Max Planck Society, which allowed her to establish a research group within the chair of Prof. Ferenc Krausz at Max Planck Institute o...
