Advanced Optical Technologies: University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

About the programme
The interdisciplinary character of optical applications represents a challenge and an opportunity to physicists, biologists, physicians and engineers. While they often use similar optical methods when working in their own disciplines, the realisation of synergy effects demands close co-operation and technology transfer. Main topics in the research and education programme covered by the Graduate School are: Fundamentals of Optical Technologies, Optical Metrology, Optical Material Processing, Optics in Medicine, Optics in Communication and Information Technologies, Optical Materials and Systems, Computational Optics. The SAOT is jointly run by the School of Engineering, the School of Science and the Medical School of the University Erlangen - Nuremberg. It is supported by the Bavarian Laser Centre gGmbH (BLZ), the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Systems and Device Technology (IISB) and the Max Planck Research Group of Optics, Information and Photonics.
In Erlangen, two graduate programmes on optics are offered: the International Max Planck Research School for Optics and Imaging (IMPRS-OI) and the Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies (SAOT). The SAOT is a technology-oriented programme focussing on applications of optical technologies in engineering. It closely collaborates with the IMPRS-OI, which concentrates on fundamentals and applications of modern optics, as well as on imaging techniques with a focus on medical applications. The programmes are interlinked and a double application is possible and encouraged.