Projects from Prof. Dr. Jens Förstner
TRR 142 - Ultrafast electric control of optical polarizations and transitions (C04)
The goal of this project is the development of photonic devices with nonlinear functionalities that can be controlled by electric means. The new functional structures involve an ultrafast electronic circuit which drives a single quantum dot in a microresonator. By ultrafast Stark effect tuning we will attain coherent control over the exciton and ...
Duration: 04/2014 - 12/2021
Funded by: DFG
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
Funded by: DFG
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
Funded by: DFG
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
Funded by: DFG
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
Funded by: DFG