Researcher working on a uantum photon source for entangled photon pairs.
The first transregional center for quantum photonics at the universities of Jena, Stuttgart and Ulm offers around 50 scientists a cross-disciplinary and cross-location platform for research and exchange.
Researcher working on a uantum photon source for entangled photon pairs.
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Abbe Center of Photonics

Front facet of the ACP building in 2019.
Front facet of the ACP building in 2019.
Image: Christoph Worsch (University of Jena)

The Abbe Center of Photonics (ACP) is the academic center of scientific activities in the fields of optics and photonics at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena de. Research is conducted in joint cooperation with the Fraunhofer Institute JenaExternal link, the Helmholtz Institute JenaExternal link, the Leibniz Institute of Photonic TechnologyExternal link, and the German Optics MuseumExternal link. In the last years, ACP has become one of the leading European centers for research and education in optics and photonics as well as in the development and transfer of optical technologies. ACP is strongly engaged in young-career scientists' education via its integrated Abbe School of Photonics and sustains strong links with local industry partners as well as with the international scientific community. read more

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Katsuya Tanaka at his Lab in the ACP in Jena.
Image: Ira Winkler
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The journal "Optical Materials Express" has just (04.03.2024) reported that a research group led by Dr Alberucci and Prof. Nolte has developed a new way of modulating optical signals in a laser-written waveguides in glass by inserting a liquid crystal layer.
Researchers Alessandro Alberucci and Kim Lammers are pictured working in the lab. Their advance paves the way to integrating new types of optical functions into the whole volume of a single glass chip, enabling compact full 3D photonic integrated devices.
Image: GRK 2101 (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
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University of Jena and TU Braunschweig collaborating on gallium nitride-based photonic devices
Doctoral candidate Karla Jahaira Paz Corrales experiments with material samples at an ion accelerator.
Image: Jens Meyer (University of Jena)
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Interdisciplinary Research Team from the University of Jena Develops Meta-Surface that Can Be Switched with Light
Dr Purushottam Poudel took part in developing a photo-tunable polymer meta surface.
Image: Jens Meyer (University of Jena)
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Jena researchers develop AI system from optical fibers
Dr. Bennet Fischer (l.) and Prof. Dr. Mario Chemnitz in a laboratory of the Leibniz-IPHT.
Image: Sven Döring/Leibniz-IPHT
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Honoured with "Best Student Presentation Awards" at SPIE Photonics West
Joint success at Photonics West - research work is always teamwork!
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Key research areas

Application of multicolor holograms in the lab.
Lasers, nanooptics & materials, opt.systems, quantum technologies
Penultimate amplification stage of the high-power POLARIS laser system.
Ultrahigh peak-power, relativistic lasers and x-ray optics
Microfluidic-photonic chip.
Novel spectroscopy, multimodal imaging, chip-based diagnostics
Prof. David D. SAMPSON
"There is nowhere else in the photonics world like Jena."
Prof. David D. Sampson Winthrop Professor and Director of the Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation & Analysis (CMCA), The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia
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