Guest professors

Prof. Gregor Sauer, University of Würzburg.

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Prof. Dr. Gregor SAUER

Julius-Maximilian-Universität Würzburg (Germany)

• Super-resolution microscopy
• Quantification of receptors
• Biophysics of fungi and optogenetics

Prof. Sauer is invited as a Honorary Guest Lecturer financed by the Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung at ACP in summer 2023. website of the Sauer groupExternal link

Prof. Igor MEGLINSKI

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Prof. Dr. Igor MEGLINSKI

Aston University (United Kingdom)

• Development of new non-invasive imaging/diagnostic techniques
• Dynamic light scattering in heterogeneous media
• Spin and orbital angular momenta in biomedical diagnosis and tissue characterization

Prof. Meglinski is a Honorary Guest Lecturer financed by the Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung at ACP in March 2023. more information

Prof. Dr. Theo LASSER

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Prof. Dr. Theo LASSER

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland)

• Coherent imaging including OCT
• Holography and interferometry- fluorescence microscopy and spectroscopy including FCS
• Lifetime-imaging and biochip technology

at ACP in May and June 2018 more details

Prof. Dr. Wenshan CAI

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Prof. Dr. Wenshan CAI

Georgia Tech, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Atlanta, Georgia (USA)

• Micro- and nanophotonic materials and devices
• Nonlinear optics and ultrafast phenomena
• Optoelectronics and integrated photonics including solar energy harvesting

 at ACP in March 2018 more details

Prof. Dr. Giulio CERULLO

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Prof. Dr. Giulio CERULLO

Politecnico di Milano (Italy)

• Generation and control of ultrashort light pulses
• Dynamics of ultrafast systems
• Applications of ultrashort pulses in microscopy and nanomachining

at ACP in November 2017 more details

Prof. Dr. Laura MARCU

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Prof. Dr. Laura MARCU

Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Davis (USA)

• Fluorescence lifetime and imaging techniques
• Time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy
• Clinical and biomedical applications 

at ACP in April 2016 more details

Prof. Dr. Igal BRENER

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Prof. Dr. Igal BRENER

Sandia National Laboratories and Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Albuquerque, New Mexico (USA)

• Semiconductor micro- and nanostructures
• Solid-state lighting and III-nitride semiconductors
• Low-index and THz metamaterials

 at ACP in April 2016 more details

PD Dr. Sandro WIMBERGER

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PD Dr. Sandro WIMBERGER

Dipartimento di Fisica e Science della Terra, Università di Parma (Italy)

Nonlinear Dymamics and Quantum Chaos

• Classical and quantum dynamical systems
• Transport phenomena
• Dissipative optical lattices

 at ACP in February 2015 more details

Prof. Benjamin EGGLETON

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Prof. Benjamin EGGLETON

School of Physics, University of Sidney (Australia)

Chip-based nonlinear optics

• All-optical signal processing
• Applied nonlinear optics
• Photonic chips

at ACP in September 2014 more details

Prof. Mikhail N. SHNEIDER

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Prof. Mikhail N. SHNEIDER

Princeton University, Princeton (USA)

Theoretical plasma physics and nonlinear optics

• Atmospheric electrical phenomena
• Weakly-ionized plasma processes
• Molecular ensembles in optical lattices

at ACP in May 2014 more details

Prof. Sheng-Lung HUANG

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Prof. Sheng-Lung HUANG

Graduate Institute of Photonics and Optoelectronics, National Taiwan University (Taiwan)

Photonic fibers and tomography technologies

• Fiber based lasers and amplifiers
• Optical coherence tomography
• Imaging of living cells and tissue

at ACP in May 2014 more details

Prof. Andrew BERGER

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Prof. Andrew BERGER

University of Rochester, NY (USA)

Biomedical Optics

• Biomedical optics
• Turbid tissue optics
• Optical spectroscopy 

at ACP from November 2013 until July 2014 more details

Prof. Pavel POLYNKIN

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Prof. Pavel POLYNKIN

University of Arizona, Tucson (USA)

Laser-Matter Interaction

• Ultrafast and extreme nonlinear optics
• Laser filamentation
• Laser plasmas for atmospheric applications 

at ACP in November 2013 more details

Prof. Markus POLLNAU

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Prof. Markus POLLNAU

University of Twente, Enschede (The Netherlands)

Integrated Optics

• Integrated optical microsystems
• Fiber, thin film & waveguide optics
• Rare-earth-ion spectroscopy

at ACP from September until November 2013 more details

Prof. Dragomir NESHEV

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Prof. Dragomir NESHEV

The Australien National University, Canberra (Australia)

Nonlinear Optical Media

• Experimental photonics and nonlinear optics
• Funtionalized optical metamaterials
• Novel optical materials

at ACP in September and October 2013 more details

Prof. em. George STEGEMAN

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Prof. em. George STEGEMAN

University of Central Florida, Orlando (USA)

Nonlinear Optics

• Extreme nonlinear optics and material nonlinearities
• Discrete and acousto optics
• Light scattering, all-optical switching and signal processing

at ACP in September 2013 more details

Prof. David D. SAMPSON

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Prof. David D. SAMPSON

University of Western Australia (Australia)

Optical and Biomedical Engineering

• Biomedical optics
• Optical coherence tomography
• Optical elastography

at ACP in May and June 2013 more details

Prof. Jeff SQUIER

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Prof. Jeff SQUIER

Colorado School of Mines (USA)

Microintegrated Optics

• Multiphoton microscopy & 3D imaging
• Lab-on-a-chip optical systems
• Nonlinear optics

at ACP in May 2013 more details

Prof. Federico CAPASSO

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Prof. Federico CAPASSO

Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Boston (USA)

Advanced Photonics

• Electrodynamical forces
• Quantum cascade lasers
• Nanophotonics

  at ACP in March and May 2013 more details

Prof. Colin SHEPPARD

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Prof. Colin SHEPPARD

National University of Singapore (Singepore)

Bioengineering

• Pulsed beams
• Scattering and imaging
• Phase contrast microscopy

at ACP in July/August 2011 and November 2012 more details

Prof. Andrei LAVRINENKO

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Prof. Andrei LAVRINENKO

Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby (Denmark)

Photonics engineering & optical metamaterials

• Artificial photonic materials
• Bloch mode analysis in metamaterials
• Engineering of Terahertz devices

at ACP in October 2012 more details

Prof. Nikolaos EFREMIDIS

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Prof. Nikolaos EFREMIDIS

University of Crete (Greece)

Mathematical modelling in optics

• Linear and nonlinear wave phenomena
• Dynamics of curved light
• Numerical methods in optics and photonics

at ACP in October 2012 more details

Prof. Martijn DE STERKE

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Prof. Martijn DE STERKE

University of Sydney (Australia)

Linear and nonlinear photonic devices

• Nonlinear and discrete optics
• Photonic crystals and microstructured optical fibers
• Semiconductor photonics

at ACP in October 2012 more details

Anne SENTENAC, PhD, Directeur de Recherche au CNRS

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Anne SENTENAC, PhD, Directeur de Recherche au CNRS

Institut Fresnel, Marseille (France)

High Resolution Microscopy

• Optical diffraction tomography
• High axial resolution microscopy

at ACP in August 2011 and August 2012 more details

Prof. Ortwin HESS

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Prof. Ortwin HESS

Imperial College London (United Kingdom)

Nano Plasmonics

• Nano-plasmonics with gain
• From light localisation to ultrafast nano-lasers

at ACP in July 2012 more details

Prof. Costantino DE ANGELIS

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Prof. Costantino DE ANGELIS

University of Brescia (Italy)

Nonlinear Optics

• Binary plasmonic waveguide arrays/
• Modeling of broadband optical pulse propagation in quadratic media

at ACP in July 2012 more details

Prof. Sergei TRETYAKOV

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Prof. Sergei TRETYAKOV

Aalto University (Finland)

Theoretical Electrodynamics

• Split rings and related structures: artificial magnetism
• Wire media: artificial plasma
• Double-negative materials, backward waves, negative refraction, perfect lens

at ACP in June and July 2012 more details

Prof. Aleksei ZHELTIKOV

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Prof. Aleksei ZHELTIKOV

Aalto University (Finland) Lomonov State University, Moscow (Russia) & Texas A&M University (USA)

Fiber Optics

• Tailoring ultrashort lightwaves with photonic-crystal fibers
• Nonlinear optics with photonic-crystal fibers
• Laser-induced filamentation

at ACP in January, June and July 2012 more details

Prof. Markus RASCHKE

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Prof. Markus RASCHKE

JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder (USA)

Ultrafast Nano-Optics

• Nanoscale optical control with optical antennas
• Strong light-matter interaction: dressed states, single photon and extreme nonlinear optics
• Fundamentals of nearfield optics and sub-wavelength resolution

at ACP in May and June 2012 more details

Prof. Martin RICHARDSON

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Prof. Martin RICHARDSON

CREOL, University of Central Florida, Orlando (USA)

Fiber and Ultrafast Lasers

• Development of Tm fiber lasers
• Ultra-fast laser materials processing

at ACP in June 2011 and March and April 2012 more details

Prof. Kathleen RICHARDSON

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Prof. Kathleen RICHARDSON

School of Materials Science and Engineering, Clemson University (USA)

Optical glasses

• Synthesis and characterization of novel glass and glass ceramic materials for optical applications
• Structure-property relationships in glasses and ceramic media
• Engineering of infrared glasses for optical applications

at ACP in June 2011 and March 2012 more details

Prof. Matthias SCHNÜRER

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Prof. Matthias SCHNÜRER

Max-Born-Institut, Berlin (GERMANY)

Laser Matter Interaction

• Laser acceleration experiments: Experimental techniques & measurement of strong fields
• Strong fields in laser plasmas: Electron kinematics, laser absorption & particle acceleration

at ACP in January 2012 more details

Prof. Philippe GRELU

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Prof. Philippe GRELU

University de Bourgogne, Dijon (France)

Solitons, Lasers and Optical Communication

• Mode-locked figer lasers
• Dissipative solitons
• Soliton molecules and light bullets

at ACP in November 2011 more details

Prof. Alexander DREISCHUH

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Prof. Alexander DREISCHUH

University of Sofia (Bulgaria)

Nonlinear Optics

• Third-order optical nonlinearities and optical solitons
• Optical holographyt+Professor
• Ultrashort laser pulse generation

at ACP from August until November 2011 more details

Prof. Alexey BELYANIN

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Prof. Alexey BELYANIN

Texas A&M University (USA)

Optics of semiconductor nanostructures

• Quantum confinement of electrons in nanostructures
• Nonlinear dynamics and mode locking in quantum cascade lasers
• Nanophotonics, graphene and novel nanomaterials

at ACP in June 2011 more details