Specialisation Optics and Photonics

Study recommendation M.Sc. Physics

Specialisation in Optics and Photonics

Image: Jan-Peter Kasper (University of Jena)

Specialise in Optics and Photonics

The specialisation in optics and photonics of the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy (PAF) at Friedrich Schiller University (FSU) Jena takes place at the Institute of Applied Physics (IAP), the Institute of Optics and Quantum Electronics (IOQ), the Institute for Applied Optics and Biophysics (IAO), and the Abbe School of Photonics (ASP) via excellent lectures, seminars and small projects. This allows you to get a feeling of day to day research in modern optics and photonics, to peek into our laboratories and to get to know our researchers, their research group and our institutes.

Here, we want to give you an overview over the different research groups of our institutes and the lectures we offer in this specialisation.

Videos and additional material can be found on the webpage of the Abbe School of Photonics.

Basic Optics course (8 ECTS) e.g. "Optik und Wellen", or "Fundamentals of modern optics"

Quantum Optics (Setzpfandt), SoSe, ECTS 4
Fundamentals of Quantum Information (Steinlechner), WiSe, ECTS 8
Quantum Information Theory (Sondenheimer), WiSe, ECTS 4
Advanced Quantum Information (Gärttner), SoSe, ECTS 8, advised after “Fundamentals of Quantum Information”
Experimental Quantum Technologies (Eilenberger, Setzpfandt), SoSe, ECTS 4
Quantum Communication (Eilenberger, Steinlechner), WiSe, ECTS 4, advised after 1) or 2)
Quantum Imaging and Sensing (Gräfe, Setzpfandt), WiSe, ECTS 4, advised after 1) or 2)
Integrated Quantum Photonics (Gräfe, Gili, Pertsch), SoSe, ECTS 4, advised after 1) or 2)
Quantum Computing (Eilenberger, Steinlechner), SoSe, ECTS 4, advised after 1) or 2)
Computational Quantum Dynamics (Gärttner), WiSe, ECTS 4

Experimental Nonlinear Optics (Paulus), WiSe, ECTS 4
Theory of Nonlinear Optics (Peschel), SoSe, ECTS 4
Nonlinear Dynamics in Optics (Peschel), WiSe, ECTS 4, to be attended after 1) or 2)

Laser Physics (Limpert), SoSe, ECTS 8
Grundlagen der Laserphysik (Limpert), WiSe, ECTS 4
Experimental Nonlinear Optics (Paulus), WiSe, ECTS 4
High -Intensity /Relativistic Optics (Kaluza), WiSe, ECTS 4, advised after “Laser Physics” or “Grundlagen der Laserphysik”
Strong-field laser physics (Paulus), SoSe, ECTS 4
XUV Optics (Spielmann), SoSe, ECTS 4, advised after “Laser Physics” or “Grundlagen der Laserphysik”
Ultrafast optics (Nolte), WiSe, ECTS 4, advised after “Laser Physics” or “Grundlagen der Laserphysik”
Introducton to x-ray spectroscopy (Röhlsberger), SoSe, ECTS 4
Laser driven radiation sources (Zepf), WiSe, ECTS 4
Particles in strong electromagnetic fields (Zepf), SoSe, ECTS 4
Modern methods of spectroscopy (Spielmann), SoSe, ECTS 4
Nuclear matter & formation of elements (Forstner/Stöhlker), SoSe, ECTS 4
Plasma physics (Kaluza), SoSe, ECTS 4
Interaction of high-energy radiation with matter (Stöhlker), WiSe, ECTS 4
Introduction to accelerator physics (Stöhlker), WiSe, ECTS 4
Introduction to modern x-ray science (Stöhlker), WiSe, ECTS 4
Physics of ultrafast optical discharge and filamentation (Spielmann), WiSe, ECTS 4
Ultrafast fibre laser (Chernysheva), WiSe, ECTS 4
Attosecond Laser Physics (Pfeiffer), SoSe, ECTS 4, to be attended after 1) or 2)

Biophotonics (Ehricht/Heintzmann), SoSe, ECT 4
Microscopy (Eggeling), SoSe, ECTS 4
Light Microscopy (Heintzmann), WiSe, ECTS 4
Biomedical Imaging - Non-ionizing Radiation (Reichenbach/Förster), SoSe, ECTS 4
Biomedical Imaging - Ionizing Radiation (Reichenbach/Förster), WiSe, ECTS 4
Applied Laser Technology (Eggeling, Cizmar), SoSe, ECTS 4
Applied Laser Technology - Biophysical Applications (Eggeling, Cizmar), WiSe, ECTS 4
Computational imaging (Heintzmann), WiSe, ECTS 4
Image processing (Heintzmann), WiSe, ECTS 4