The Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Light is one of over 80 Max Planck Institutes worldwide and is engaged in basic research. It covers a broad research spectrum, including nonlinear optics, quantum optics, nanophotonics, photonic crystal fibers, biological optomechanics, quantum technologies, biophysics and the links between physics and medicine.
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Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) and Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin (MPZPM) in Erlangen present a large step forward in the characterization of nanoparticles. They used a special ...
Bio & Medicine
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The delivery of experimental materials to individual cells with exactness and exclusivity has long been an elusive and much sought-after ability in biology. With it comes the promise of deciphering many longstanding secrets ...
Bio & Medicine
Feb 15, 2024
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Quanta of light—photons—form the basis of quantum key distribution in modern cryptographic networks. Before the huge potential of quantum technology is fully realized, however, several challenges remain. A solution to ...
Quantum Physics
May 6, 2022
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For quantum communication or optical computing it is important to measure and to influence in which direction a light wave is oscillating. It is now for the first time possible to manipulate this polarization of a continuous ...
Optics & Photonics
Jan 19, 2022
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A team of scientists at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light led by Dr. Birgit Stiller has succeeded in cooling traveling sound waves in waveguides considerably further than has previously been possible using ...
Optics & Photonics
Jan 18, 2024
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Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light have managed for the first time to create a unidirectional device that significantly increases the quality of a special class of transmitted signals in optical ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 20, 2022
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It can be observed every time you take a shower: Small droplets of water join together to form larger and larger drops—until they are so heavy that they run down the wall. Scientists call this daily-life phenomenon coalescence—which ...
General Physics
Jan 18, 2021
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After an injury to the spinal cord, patients often remain paralyzed because damaged nerve tracts do not regrow due to the formation of scar tissue. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen, ...
Biotechnology
Jan 18, 2021
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For the first time, scientists were able to create ultrashort dark and bright light pulses that are linked together in tiny glass rings called microresonators. Each of the flashes consist of many different, precisely defined ...
Optics & Photonics
Jan 27, 2022
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Small proteins play a critical role in the regulation of immune response, inflammation and neurodegenerative diseases. In order to better detect and study them, scientists at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Science of Light ...
Biotechnology
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