The Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (IPHT —

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: Institut für Photonische Technologien) is a non-university research facility in

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. Focused on applications for various

physical system A physical system is a collection of physical objects under study. The collection differs from a set: all the objects must coexist and have some physical relationship. In other words, it is a portion of the physical universe chosen for analys ...

s, the Institute's mandate is to find solutions to challenges in high technology systems. IPHT carries out research in the following areas:

magnetics Magnetism is the class of physical attributes that occur through a magnetic field, which allows objects to attract or repel each other. Because both electric currents and magnetic moments of elementary particles give rise to a magnetic field, m ...

quantum electronics Quantum optics is a branch of atomic, molecular, and optical physics and quantum chemistry that studies the behavior of photons (individual quanta of light). It includes the study of the particle-like properties of photons and their interaction w ...

optics Optics is the branch of physics that studies the behaviour and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of optical instruments, instruments that use or Photodetector, detect it. Optics usually describes t ...

, microsystems,

biophotonics The term biophotonics denotes a combination of biology and photonics, with photonics being the science and technology of generation, manipulation, and detection of photons, quantum units of light. Photonics is related to electronics and photons. ...

and laser technology. The Institute works with both universities and companies. The IPHT coordinates several EU-Projects funded by the

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: * Photonics4Life * S-Pulse * High-EF * Rod-Sol * Fiblys

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