Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light

The Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light research covers a wide range of topics, including nonlinear optics, quantum optics, nanophotonics, photonic crystal fibres, optomechanics, quantum technologies, biophysics, and links between physics and medicine. MPL was founded in 2009 and is one of the 83 institutes that make up the Max Planck Society, whose mission is to conduct basic research in the service of the general public in the natural sciences, life sciences, social sciences and the humanities.

Interferometric Scattering microscopy Sandoghdar Division and MPZPM

Interferometric scattering microscopy reveals microsecond nanoscopic protein motion on a live cell membrane

Tap-proof Quantum Communication News

BMBF to provide 165 million euros for the QuNet initiative

Molecular quantum systems Sandoghdar Division

Organic molecules can be turned into nearly ideal quantum systems

Artificial Intelligence Marquardt Division

Neural networks enable adaptive error correction for computers based on quantum physics

Stiller - New Max Planck Research Group

22.05.2019

Welcome to the Max Planck Institute for the science of light! We are happy to announce that Birgit Stiller has taken up her position as the head of a...

A pulse for tap-proof quantum communication

22.05.2019

In the future, it will be possible to exchange data in a tap-proof manner - with the aid of quantum physics. To achieve this goal, the German...

Following a protein nano-rover on the cell membrane

25.04.2019

The human body is composed of billions of cells, each one representing the smallest self-sustaining unit of life. We know that surfaces of our cells...

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