Year: 2024

Our first One Day in Optics was a great success! In the course of the “A Heart for Science” program of ZEISS Group, an upper-level school class explored our panOPTICUM experiments. In the subsequent panel discussion, they spoke to students, PhD students and a study advisor about working and study...

Last year, doctoral students from Princeton Materials Institute (PMI) in Princeton visited SAOT in Erlangen for a Summer School on lasers and photonics. Recently this year, young SAOT researchers visited the US in return. During their one-week stay in Princeton, they presented their own research and...

On May 13th, we hosted a public science evening in our panOPTICUM as part of #FAUwissenwollen. In his talk on the physics of colors, Dr. Max Gmelch also shed a light on the scientific background of the recent polar lights. The talk was complemented by a guided tour through the interactive panOPTI...

Imagine you have an exciting new research question in mind, but there is no fitting equipment to build the setup. So why not build it yourself? This question arose to a group of young scientists from FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. Their goal: measuring the diameter of stars. The first real image of a bla...

Dynamic Light Scattering and Cross-Country Skiing: Our doctoral candidates spent one week in Oberhof at the SAOT Winter Academy 2024. On the one hand, they learned how to determine diffusion coefficients and viscosities of liquids. On the other hand, they learned about the sliding properties of narr...

Our modern information society is highly dependent on secure communication channels. The idea of encryption is to hide the original message by applying complex mathematical routines on it, which are almost impossible to revert unless the underlying key is known. Quantum key distribution (QKD) offers...