Projects from Prof. Dr. Jens Förstner
Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
Transregional Collaborative Research Center TRR 142 - Tailored Nonlinear Photonics: From Fundamental Concepts to Functional Structures
The central goal of this CRC is the exploration, development, and engineering of future nonlinear photonics, which uses state-of-the-art technological capabilities for the exploration of new physics and devices based on tailored strong nonlinearities and genuine quantum effects. Our research harnesses tailored solid-state systems and bridges the ...
Duration: 04/2014 - 12/2025
Wave Interaction in Photonic Integrated Circuits
Miniaturized optical systems on photonic chips play an essential role in the growth of global telecommunications, or for the realization of compact high-performance sensors for environmental, chemical, biological, or medical purposes. The components of these systems exploit the varying propagation behaviour that light waves exhibit when travelling ...
Duration: 01/2014 - 12/2017
SPP 1391 - Optimization, pulse shaping and optical control in nanostructures
The goal of this research project is the application of optimization approaches to optically excited nanostructures consisting of metal, dielectrics and semiconductors including hybrid structures. Allowing variation of geometrical features of nanostructures and pulse shaping, the maximization of target functions is achieved using problem-specific ...
Duration: 01/2012 - 12/2015
SPP 1391: Ultrafast Nanooptics
The aim of this Priority Programme is to analyse, coherently control and utilise the spatiotemporal dynamics of electromagnetic excitations in metallic nanostructures and hybrid nanostructures. In such systems, electromagnetic excitations tend to be highly localised and strongly enhanced. Such field-localisation phenomena play a key role in a ...
Duration: 01/2009 - 12/2017
Computational Nanophotonics
The goal of the planned research project is the self-consistent, microscopic and thus quantitative description of the light-matter interaction in nanostructured solids. On the one hand, single quantum mechanical objects in complex electromagnetic environments (e.g. photonic crystals with embedded quantum dots) shall be investigated, on the other ...
Duration: 01/2007 - 12/2013