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Erlangen, June 2025 – This year’s Summer School offered a dynamic platform for cultural and academic exchange between doctoral candidates from the Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies (SAOT) and their fellow researchers from Princeton, Rowan, and Rutgers universities in the USA....

Our week at the SAOT Winter Academy in Munich was completed, and we want to take a moment to express our sincere gratitude to all of you who participated! We hope you’ve found the course both informative and engaging, enjoyed the collaborative group activities, and had the chance to connect with fel...

How did quantum physics evolve? Last Monday in our panOPTICUM, more than 150 guests joined us on our journey to the origins of quantum theory more than 100 years ago. Curious? See the video below:  

What a night! More than 500 people visited our christmas lecture. Now the video is online! Enjoy watching:   A big thank you to the Multimediazentrum of FAU.  

For the first time in its more than 20-year history, the Department of Physics' Christmas Lecture will not be presented by a physics chair. Instead, we as SAOT are in charge this year. We collaborate with the Department of Physics and the Collegium Alexandrinum. Join us on December 3rd! See detai...

For the 13th time, the Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies (SAOT) invites young researchers to apply for the SAOT Young Researcher Award (YRA) in Advanced Optical Technologies. The 100.000 € award is open to scientists with a proven record in optics, photonics and optical tech...

“Türen auf mit der Maus” was the motto in the panOPTICUM on October 3rd, 2024. Young and elderly learned about persistence of color. Prof. Nicolas Vogel from the Chair of Particle Technology at the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg explained how we can find out the secrets of non-fading colors from nature, for ...

Advanced optical techniques and methodologies used in the field of combustion: on September 23rd and 24th, our 35th SAOT Workshop - Combustion Diagnostics took place at the Fraunhofer IISB Institute in Erlangen. International experts presented the latest diagnostic developments and applications e...

The SAOT Summer Academy 2024 was held at the Fraunhofer Research Campus Waischenfeld. Our doctoral candidates learned about laser theory and applications and enjoyed kayaking.

Am 3. Oktober öffnen wir unsere Türen für die Maus-Fans! Warum bleicht ein T-Shirt aus, ein Schmetterling aber nicht? Forscherinnen und Forscher der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität tun sich zusammen, um die ewige Farbe zu entschlüsseln und nachzubauen. Bei uns im panOPTICUM zeigen sie, was sie herau...