Specialisation in Optics and Photonics

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.

Preliminaries

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

Specialisation

Quantum Photonics

  1. Quantum Optics (Setzpfandt), SoSe, ECTS 4
  2. Experimental Quantum Technologies (Eilenberger, Setzpfandt), SoSe, ECTS 4
  3. Quantum Communication (Eilenberger, Steinlechner), WiSe, ECTS 4, advised after 1) or 2)
  4. Quantum Imaging and Sensing (Gräfe, Setzpfandt), WiSe, ECTS 4, advised after 1) or 2)
  5. Integrated Quantum Photonics (Gräfe, Gili, Pertsch), SoSe, ECTS 4, advised after 1) or 2)
  6. Quantum Computing (Eilenberger, Steinlechner), SoSe, ECTS 4, advised after 1) or 2)

Nonlinear Optics

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

Computational Optics & Optical System Design

  1. Computational Photonics (Pertsch), SoSe, ECTS 4
  2. Design and correction of optical systems (Kempe), SoSe, ECTS 4
  3. Lens design I (Decker), SoSe, ECTS 4
  4. Physical Optics Simulation (Wyrowski), SoSe, ECTS 4
  5. Optical Engineering (Franke), WiSe, ECTS 4
  6. Lens design II (NN), WiSe, ECTS 4
  7. Imaging and aberration theory (NN), WiSe, ECTS 4
  8. Optical Design with Zemax (NN), WiSe, ECTS 4
  9. Introduction to Optical Modeling (Wyrowski), WiSe, ECTS 4
  10. Thin Film Optics (Stenzel, Tünnermann), WiSe, ECTS 4

Physics of Lasers & Ultrashort Pulses

  1. Laser Physics (Limpert, Nolte), SoSe, ECTS 8
  2. Grundlagen der Laserphysik (Limpert), WiSe, ECTS 4
  3. High -Intensity /Relativistic Optics (Kaluza), WiSe, ECTS 4, to be attended after 1) or 2)
  4. Attosecond Laser Physics (Pfeiffer), SoSe, ECTS 4, to be attended after 1) or 2)
  5. XUV and X-ray Optics (Spielmann), SoSe, ECTS 4, to be attended after 1) or 2)
  6. Ultrafast optics (Nolte), WiSe, ECTS 4, to be attended after 1) or 2)

Nanooptics & Photonic Materials

  1. Introduction to nanooptics (Staude, Pertsch), WiSe, ECTS 4
  2. Photonic Materials Basics and Applications (Schmidt), SoSe, ECTS 4
  3. Active photonic devices (Schmidt), WiSe, ECTS 4
  4. Semiconductor nanomaterials (Staude), SoSe, ECTS 4
  5. Nonlinear optical properties of 2D materials (Soavi), SoSe, ECTS 4
  6. Optoelectronics (Schmidl), SoSe, ECTS 4
  7. Micro/nanotechnology (Zeitner), SoSe, ECTS 4

Imaging & Photonic Applications

  1. Microscopy (Eggeling), SoSe, ECTS 4
  2. Biomedical Imaging (Reichenbach/Förster), WiSe, ECTS 4
  3. Biomedical Imaging Non-ionizing Radiation (Reichenbach/Förster), SoSe, ECTS 4
  4. Applied Laser Technology - Biophysical Applications (Eggeling, Cizmar), SoSe, ECTS 4