The Faculty for Applied Sciences and Mechatronics of the University of Applied Sciences Munich is active in teaching and applied research in photonics and laser technology. Our Master’s program in Photonics prepares our students perfectly for the cutting-edge photonics industry.

Main activities

• Photonics Lab (Prof. J. Roths):
  Design and manufacturing of fiber Bragg gratings (FBG), optical fiber sensor technology
• Lasercenter (Prof. H. P. Huber):
  Micro- and nano processing with fs and ps lasers: structuring of solar cells, ultrafast pumpprobe- microscopy/ellipsometry and simulation of lasermatter-interaction, single transfer of living cells
• Multiphoton Imaging Lab (Prof Hellerer):
  label-free and super-resolution imaging of biological samples with ultrashort laser pulses
• Applied Optics / Microoptics Lab (Prof. U. Zeitner):
  Controlled generation and characterization of optical wavefronts with active and microstructured elements

Main areas of research and development

• FBG Sensor Technology: Temperature distributions as in gas turbines; multi-parameter sensor technology; embedding of FBG in cast components; elasticity determination on biological tissue
• fs laser Technology: functionalization of FBG sensors; efficiency improvement of solar cells; study fundamental mechanisms laser ablation; tissue engineering on single cell level for biomedical research
• 3D structure analysis of living cells / tissues with multiphoton microscopes (CARS, SHG, FLIM, etc.)
• Active and microstructured elements for diffractive optics for the realization of new lithographic fabrication processes and for fast wavefront measurements

Industrial Advisory Board

Excelitas Technologies Corp., InnoLas Holding GmbH, Laser 2000 GmbH, Laser Components GmbH, Menlo Systems GmbH, MLase AG, Novanta Europe GmbH, OHB System AG, Thorlabs GmbH, TOPTICA Photonics AG