Selda Iyi
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, ErlangenPhone: +49 9131 6877-541
Fax: +49 9131 6877-509
Email: selda.iyi@mpl.mpg.de
Dr. Sabine König
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, ErlangenPhone: +49 9131 6877-500
Fax: +49 9131 6877-199
Email: sabine.koenig@mpl.mpg.de
Institute
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
91058 Erlangen
Fax: +49 09131 6877-109
White light sources being several orders of magnitudes brighter than light bulbs, the manipulation of single photons or the smallest focal point in the world – these are just a few skills mastered or developed by the scientists of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light. Their main goal is to control light in all dimensions: in time and space, polarisation – i.e. simply speaking the direction of oscillation – and quantum properties. The knowledge they develop could simplify telecommunication or enable more compact data storage. For this purpose the researchers use novel optical structures like optical glass fibres with a regular lattice of tiny hollow channels along its length. Glass fibres guide light with extremely low losses and can be several kilometres long.
Directors / Research Focus
- Gerd Leuchs (Optics and Information)
- Oskar Painter (Quantum photonics)
- Philip St. J. Russell (Photonics and New Materials)
- Vahid Sandoghdar (Nano-Optics, Plasmonics and Biophotonics)
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