Julius Gohsrich graduated from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. During his bachelor and master program, he worked in the field of quantum gravity and on the theory of whispering gallery modes, the latter was done in collaboration with MPL. Julius is now a PhD student in the…

Today's IMPRS Monday Show at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light scored with a beautiful autumnal flair and a very interesting talk of our IMPRS-PL student Timo Eckstein.

In ten minutes he provided his fellow students with insights into time evolution of periodically driven systems on…

Professor Donna Strickland visited the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Light (MPL) on October tenth, 2022, as part of the Distinguished Lecturer Series (DLS) and gave a talk on the work that won her the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light have managed for the first time to create a unidirectional device that significantly increases the quality of a special class of transmitted signals in optical communications: optical vortices. By transmitting selective optical vortex…

Here are the winners of this year's best poster award!

This year's annual meeting - the 13th in a row - took place on October 7th at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in a completely new format.

After a short welcome, the head of our steering committee Vahid Sandoghdar gave a detailed report about the last IMPRS year which led to…

Maxim Sirotin graduated with bachelor's and master's degrees from Lomonosov Moscow State University. His research began in the field of biophotonics with the development of new methods based on optical tweezers and optical coherence tomography. In his master's degree, Maxim focused on developing…

Rajkumar Jadhav is doing his PhD in the Research Group of Birgit Stiller at MPL. His studies cover cavity optoacoustics and optomagnonics.

Andrei Rasputnyi graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Physics, Department of Quantum Electronics. During the bachelor and master program, his study aimed at experimental and theoretical aspects of light-matter interaction and quantum nonlinear optics. Now he is a PhD student…

On Thursday July 28th, 2022 we had our first scientific and social gathering of IMPRS-PM. An interdisclipinary poster session enabled the students to get to know each other and delve into discussions with each other and with the participating supervisors.

We also had an interesting walk to the…

Cryogenic optical localization in three dimensions (COLD) has been shown to be a viable option for deciphering protein complexes at Angstrom-level. However, previous work was severely limited in the number of resolved fluorophores. A new approach, titled ‘polarCOLD’ has now pushed the boundaries for…

Birgit Stiller and Silvia Viola-Kusminskiy of MPL are working towards making long-distance quantum communication and wireless communication more efficient as part of an EU Pathfinder research project named PALANTIRI.

Director Vahid Sandoghdar is a physicist who explores biology’s unknowns, with greater precision by linking two methods. He has been covered in this month’s issue of the scientific journal Nature Methods under the rubric „The Author File“. He talks about the research he and his team just published…

As part of the largest science festival in the region, MPL also opened its doors to the general public. More than 1,000 interested people visited the institute during the Long Night of Science to learn more about the research at MPL in a diverse program with lab tours, demonstrations and talks.

Christoph Marquardt, who heads the independent research group for quantum information processing at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL), has been appointed as a tenured professor at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen Nuremberg (FAU).

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) and Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin (MPZPM) in Erlangen present a significant step forward in the characterization of nanoparticles. They used a special microscopy method based on interferometry to outperform existing…

Quanta of light - photons - form the basis of quantum key distribution in modern cryptographic networks. Before the huge potential of quantum technology is fully realized, however, several challenges remain. A solution to one of these has now been found.

Jochen Guck received the Wilhelm Ostwald Medal of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig, which is usually awarded annually to a scientist in recognition of outstanding scientific achievements.

Measuring the chirality – the lack of symmetry upon reflection – of substances is of fundamental importance to pharmacology. Until now, this has been a very time-consuming and inefficient process. Fast and high sensitivity chiral sensors could become game-changers in drug discovery and nanomedicine.

Flore Kunst likes to manipulate formulas as if to stretch, twist and crumple – but only on paper and with her computer. The leader of a new research group at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) in Erlangen uses advanced mathematical concepts like topology and from quantum…