Three research groups at the Institute for Photonic Quantum Systems and the Physics Departement of Paderborn University  – Theory of Functional Photonic Structures (Prof. Dr Stefan Schumacher), Ultrafast Nanophotonics (Prof. Dr Thomas Zentgraf) and Theoretical Quantum Science (Prof. Dr Jan Sperling) – have made progress in the field of modern photonics in their latest work. In two publications, the researchers investigated how light can be…

As part of an international team, scientists from Paderborn University have developed a new method to quickly and accurately detect toxic arsenic variants in soil and water. The study, which was published in the journal "Nanoscale" of the Royal Society of Chemistry, shows how simple technologies can replace expensive laboratory procedures and enable rapid on-site analysis.

In a collaboration between Paderborn University and Hallym University in South Korea, we developed a simple self-assembly based method to fabricate low density of dimer Au NPs on a metallic film over a large area of substrate by utilizing a virus-like biomaterial, M13 bacteriophage.

Dr. Vasanthan Devaraj was awarded the prize for the best lecture in the physics category in recognition of the exceptional quality of his lecture.

During the research stay of Prof. Lingling Huang from Beijing Institute of Technology in Paderborn, she gave an exciting and inspiring talk about optical metasurfaces. The research stay of Prof. Huang was supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Rebecca Aschwanden and Yves Köppeler spent a month at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, Australia in the research group of Dr. Sergey Kruk.

At the annual’s workshop of the TRR 142 that took place on 11 and 12 November 2024 in Bad Sassendorf the Best Poster Award, endowed with a travel grant, went to Michael Brauckmann, Emmanuel Narváez Castañeda, Dustin Siebert with their poster “Three-photon state generation with on-chip pump suppression in topological waveguides.” Congratulations to the winners!

During the visit of collaboration partner Prof. Nattaporn Chattham at Kasetsart University in Bangkok, interested PhD students had the opportunity to learn about the research activities in our group.

For our DAAD project with Prof. Rho from POSTECH in Korea, Gyeongtae Kim and Dong Kyo Oh are visiting our group.

In our recent joint publication with Prof. Xianzhong Chen from Heriot-Watt University, UK, we demonstrated the creation of grafted perfect vector vortex beams using optical metasurfaces.

Safety always comes first and fires cannot be ruled out even in our laboratories. So we took advantage of the nice weather and conducted a fire safety drill again after a long time. This includes not only knowing how to behave in an emergency, but also how to use the fire extinguishers. Many thanks to Mr. Hohrath from Department 5 for the professional instruction.

Material dispersion accumulated in optical setups tends to heavily distort and chirp ultra-short laser pulses which can be especially disadvantageous in nonlinear optical applications or pump-probe experiments. In our recent publication ‘Compact metasurface-based optical pulse-shaping device’ published in Nano Letters, we show that multiple metasurfaces on a single glass substrate can be used, to alter the dispersion of ultra-short laser pulses…

Our paper 'Multichannel vectorial holographic display and encryption' is selected as the ESI Top Paper in January 2023 in the Journal Light: Science&Applications (LSA) by SpringerNature. We are pleased that the paper makes an important contribution to new multiplexing methods in holography.

Physicist Prof. Dr. Lingling Huang has received the prestigious Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. She was nominated by the Paderborn physicist Prof. Dr. Thomas Zentgraf.

Scientists at the University of Paderborn develop new technology for manipulating light. The research results are now published in the journal Nature Photonics.