Die UNESCO hat 2015 zum “Internationalen Jahr des Lichts und der lichtbasierten Technologien” erklärt. Es steht unter dem Motto „Licht für Wandel“ und soll an die Bedeutung von Licht als elementare Lebensvoraussetzung erinnern sowie den gesellschaftlichen Nutzen der wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse über das Licht, z. B. in der Medizin oder im Bereich Kommunikation, ins Bewusstsein rücken.

In a joint cooperation of several research groups (including the IQO group), quantum teleportation over up to 25 km long fiber links and coupling to a solid state memory were demonstrated. Key results are now published in Nature Photonics.

On July 1st, Olga Driesner defended her Master's thesis entitled "Vergrabene Lichtwellenleiter in Kalium Titanly Phosphat".

On March 26th, 2014, Benjamin Brecht successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis titled "Engineering ultrafast quantum frequency conversion".

Quantum networks pose high requirements on photon pair sources in terms of brightness, purity and integrability with other devices. We implemented a source in the lab that combines a number of desirable properties to fulfil those requirements to a high degree.

We are happy to announce that we are part of the Marie Curie ITN project PICQUE – Photonic Integrated Compound Quantum Encoding.

Regina Kruse and Christof Eigner defended their Master's theses.

Quantum networks pose high requirements on photon pair sources in terms of brightness, purity and integrability with other devices. We implemented a source in the lab that combines a number of desirable properties to fulfil those requirements to a high degree.

On the 30th of August Andreas Schreiber successfully defended his PhD thesis

On August 28th, Vahid Ansari defended his Master's thesis

Prof. Dr. Christine Silberhorn, Leiterin der Arbeitsgruppe „Integrierte Quantenoptik“ am Department Physik der Universität Paderborn, ist in die Leopoldina, die Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften und eine der ältesten Wissenschaftsakademien der Welt, aufgenommen worden.

On the 16th of January Andreas Christ successfully defended his PhD thesis titled "Theory of ultrafast waveguided parametric down-conversion: From fundamentals to applications"

Xu Yang became the first student to finish the Master degree in the IQO group. On December, 14th, the defense of his master thesis entitled "Implementation of a waveguide based source of polarization entanglement" took place.

Sarah Leineweber and Thomas Nitsche received her B.Sc. degrees.

27 Nobelpreisträger und 580 Studierende aus 70 Ländern haben sich Anfang Juli zur 62. Tagung der Nobelpreisträger in Lindau versammelt. Mit dabei waren die beiden Paderborner Physik-Doktoranden Andreas Christ (28), Mitglied der IQO, und Christian Wiebeler (25) aus der theoretischen Physik.