The school “Applied Photonics” covers fundamentals in photonics as well as advancing research topics and applications of a key technology that is seen as one of the most important building blocks in future technological innovation. Photonic systems are ubiquitous in modern life, like e.g. in metrology, biomedical applications, space and earth exploration, production technologies, information processing and imaging. Topics […]
While optical microscopy has a history of several hundred years and has led to countless discoveries, it is still a very dynamic research area. Innovation in the area is increasingly influenced by computational approaches, in particular inverse problems, coding theory (e.g. sparse coding), optimization, and most recently, large scale machine learning. Continued advances will enable […]
The chirality induced spin selectivity effect is a quantum phenomenon that is based on chirality, spin-orbit coupling, particle-particle interactions, and compositeness. However, exactly how these aspects are brought together and results in the CISS effect is a work under construction and much debate. While the outstanding issue of the foundations of the chirality induced spin […]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023, awarded for the generation of attosecond light pulses, showcasts the scientific success and the impact of the shortest flashes of light that can be generated. First pathfinder experiments were conducted throughout the last two decades, mostly based on the "traditional" attosecond-pulse generation method by high-order harmonic generation, now implemented […]