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.
10,000 times faster than traditional methods: new computational framework automatically discovers experimental designs in microscopy
For human researchers, it takes many years of work to discover new super-resolution microscopy techniques. The number of possible optical configurations of a microscope — for example, where to place mirrors or lenses — is enormous. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light…
Jochen Guck awarded Leopoldina's Greve Prize
Three of the world's leading scientists in the field of cancer physics are to receive the 2024 Greve Prize from the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina for their outstanding research in the fields of natural sciences, medicine and engineering. Among them is Prof. Dr. Jochen Guck, Director…
Birgit Stiller awarded grant by the European Research Council for her research project “Sound-Computing”
Using optoacoustic neural networks to take artificial intelligence (AI) to the next level. This is the ambitious goal of the “SOUND-PC” research project for which Prof. Birgit Stiller, Leader of the Research Group “Quantum Optoacoustics” at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) and…
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