The Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light covers a wide range of research, including laser spectroscopy, quantum optics, nonlinear optics, nanophotonics, photonic crystal fibers, integrated optics, optomechanics, laser interferometry, quantum technologies, biophysics and – in collaboration with the Max Planck Zentrum für Physik und Medizin – the connections between physics and medicine. The MPL was founded in January 2009 and is one of over 80 institutes of the Max Planck Society that conduct basic research in the natural, biological, human and social sciences in the service of the general public.

New research group ‘Topology and Neuromorphic Computing’ headed by Dr Clara Wanjura at the MPL

Dr Clara Wanjura has been selected for the Minerva Fast Track Programme of the Max Planck Society and has founded her own research group ‘Topology and Neuromorphic Computing’. She explores research questions at the interface of quantum optics, solid-state physics and machine learning.

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New association to strengthen science and research at the MPL

The MPL founded an association to actively support scientific exchange among its researchers and networking with the public. The association “Verein der Freunde und Ehemaligen des Max-Planck-Instituts für die Physik des Lichts e. V.” aims to promote science and research at the MPL.

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Behind the Light

Lights off – movie on! Not so with the documentary film “TRACING LIGHT – The Magic of Light,” which the filmmaker Thomas Riedelsheimer shot at MPL, among other places. Light takes the leading role and guides the viewer through its complex world, in which space and time, high technology and nature, knowledge and beauty all converge on equal terms.

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First helically dichroic hollow-core fibre demonstrated

Optical fibres provide an excellent platform for transmitting light over long distances, manipulating it and enhancing light-matter interaction. Now, the ‘Ultrafast & Twisted Photonics’ research group at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) has developed a new hollow-core fibre…

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New research group ‘Topology and Neuromorphic Computing’ headed by Dr Clara Wanjura at the MPL

Dr Clara Wanjura has been selected for the Minerva Fast Track Programme of the Max Planck Society (MPG) and has founded her own research group ‘Topology and Neuromorphic Computing’ at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL). The theoretical physicist is exploring research questions…

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New association to strengthen science and research at the MPL

The Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) founds an association to actively support scientific exchange among its researchers and networking with the public. The association aims to promote science and research at the MPL. The inaugural meeting of the “Verein der Freunde und Ehemaligen…

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Prof. Vahid Sandoghdar, Ph.D.


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Dr. Dorothe Burggraf

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