SAOT Projects are research projects, which are funded by SAOT with one scholarship. Besides these projects, there are a lot of different projects in progress, which are not funded by SAOT but by a different third party.

• Computational Optics
• Optical Material Processing
• Optical Materials and Systems
• Optical Metrology
• Optics in Communication and Information Technology
• Optics in Medicine

Computational Optics

• Simulation and development of innovative solid state lasers for the generation of polarised radiation sources with high power
  Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Andreas Otto, Prof. Dr. Ulf Peschel, Prof. Dr. Christoph Pflaum, Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schmauß
  Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schmauß
  Ph.D. students: Peter Bechtold, Bastian Lins
  Start: 01.10.07
  End: 30.09.09
  
• Simulation of the optical characteristics / properties of thin film solar cells
  Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Christoph Pflaum
  Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Christoph Pflaum
  Ph.D. students: Christine Jandl
  Start: 01.05.08
  End: 30.04.10
  
• Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger, Prof. Dr. Christoph Pflaum
  Ph.D. students: Thorsten Grassmann
  Start: 01.04.11
  End: 31.03.13
  
• Discriminate normal subjects from glaucoma patients based on novel geometrical and image based measurements out of OCT volumes
  Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger, Prof. Dr. Friedrich E. Kruse
  Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger
  Ph.D. students: Ioannis Moupagiatzis
  Start: 01.09.11
  End: 31.08.13
  

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Optical Material Processing

• Enlargement of the molding boundary by local, laser-based heat treatmen
  Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Marion Merklein
  Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Marion Merklein
  Ph.D. students: Michael Lechner
  Start: 01.04.10
  End: 31.03.12
  
• Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Marion Merklein
  Coordinator: PD Dr. Hinnerk Hagenah
  Ph.D. students: Manh Hung Nguyen
  Start: 01.09.11
  End: 31.08.13
  

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Optical Materials and Systems

• Super resolution microscopy using metamaterial hyperlens
  Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Alexandre Douplik, Prof. Dr. Ulf Peschel, Prof. Dr. Ekaterina Shamonina
  Coordinator: Andreas Bich
  
• Efficient Models and Algorithms for Lithographic Projection Imaging and Related Optical Proximity Effects
  Principal Investigator: apl. Prof. Dr. Norbert Lindlein, Prof. Dr. Heiner Ryssel
  Coordinator: PD. Dr. Andreas Erdmann
  Ph.D. students: Viviana Agudelo Moreno, David Reibold
  Start: 03.09.07
  End: 02.09.09
  
• Advanced optical surfaces created by Nanostructurin
  Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Ulf Peschel, Prof. Dr. Heiner Ryssel
  Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Ulf Peschel
  Ph.D. students: Sarina Wunderlich
  Start: 01.12.07
  End: 30.11.09
  
• Effect of Pulse Shape on High-Harmonic Generation in Noble-Glas-Filled Photonic Crystal Fibers 12.08.2008
  Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Philip Russell
  Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Philip Russell
  Ph.D. students: Philipp Hölzer
  Start: 01.10.08
  End: 30.09.10
  
• Coupling mechanisms in metamaterials
  Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Ekaterina Shamonina
  Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Ekaterina Shamonina
  Ph.D. students: Eugen Tatartschuk
  Start: 07.04.10
  End: 07.04.10
  
• Combining polarization ray tracing, rigorous diffraction theory at periodic structures and the simulation of focussing at high numerical apertures
  Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Gerd Leuchs
  Ph.D. students: Wolfgang Iff
  Start: 01.03.11
  End: 28.02.13
  
• Metalic metamaterials with modified transmission
  Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Ulf Peschel
  Coordinator: PD. Dr. Andreas Erdmann
  Ph.D. students: Sabine Dobmann
  Start: 01.12.11
  End: 31.10.12
  

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Optical Metrology

• Primary Particle Size Characterization with Laser-Induced Incandescence: Investigation and modeling of nanoparticle cooling after rapid laser heating
  Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Alfred Leipertz
  Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Alfred Leipertz
  Ph.D. students: Alexandre Flügel
  Start: 01.10.07
  End: 30.09.09
  
• Acquisition and analysis of particle images for the investigation of turbulent transport phenomena in combustion systems
  Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger, Prof. Dr. Alfred Leipertz
  Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Frank Beyrau
  Start: 01.10.07
  End: 30.09.09
  
• Spatial averaging effects in pure rotational CARS
  Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Alfred Leipertz
  Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Thomas Seeger
  Ph.D. students: Yi Gao
  Start: 01.12.07
  End: 30.11.09
  
• Nonlinear optical investigations for the analysis of particle boundary surfaces – hyper-Rayleigh scattering from nanoparticles and SFG spectroscopy
  Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Peukert
  Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Peukert
  Ph.D. students: Benedikt Schürer
  Start: 01.01.08
  End: 31.12.09
  
• Laser diagnostics for the investigation of heat and mass transfer during combustion of porous media
  Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Antonio Delgado, Prof. Dr. Alfred Leipertz
  Coordinator: Dr.-Ing. Lars Zigan
  Ph.D. students: Gordana Jovicic
  Start: 01.01.08
  End: 31.12.09
  
• Development of the Laser-Induced Grating Technique for Simultaneous Gas Phase Temperature and Species Concentration Measurements in Pressurized Fueld Injection
  Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Alfred Leipertz
  Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Thomas Seeger
  Ph.D. students: Simone Eichmann, Bita Roshani
  Start: 01.03.08
  End: 01.04.08
  
• Development of a fast absorption spectroscopic sensor
  Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Alfred Leipertz, Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schmauß
  Coordinator: PD Dr. Rainer Engelbrecht
  Ph.D. students: Yaroslav Sych
  Start: 01.03.08
  End: 27.02.10
  
• Surface measurement system for the determination of intra-oral mechanical effects in the intake of food
  Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Antonio Delgado
  Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Antonio Delgado
  Ph.D. students: Alexander Kutter
  Start: 01.07.08
  End: 30.06.10
  
• Characterization of Nature of Interactions in Ionic Liquid Co-Solvent Mixtures by Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS)
  Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Andreas Fröba
  Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Andreas Fröba
  Ph.D. students: Julia Lehmann
  Start: 01.02.09
  End: 01.02.11
  
• Modelling of Near Field Imaging and Near Field Lithography
  Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Heiner Ryssel
  Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Heiner Ryssel
  Start: 01.03.09
  End: 27.02.11
  
• Optical characterisation of the red algae Porphyridium purpureum with Raman spectroscopy
  Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Alfred Leipertz
  Coordinator: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Johannes Kiefer
  Ph.D. students: Kristina Eisen
  Start: 01.03.09
  End: 28.02.09
  
• Light Refractive Tomography for the Determination of Sound Pressure Fields of Arbitrarily Shaped Ultrasound Transducers
  Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Reinhard Lerch
  Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Reinhard Lerch
  Ph.D. students: Lizhuo Chen
  Start: 01.06.10
  End: 31.05.12
  
• High Pressure Microfluidics Metrology
  Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Alfred Leipertz
  Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Alfred Leipertz
  Ph.D. students: Sebastian Luther
  Start: 01.07.10
  End: 30.06.12
  
• High Pressure inactivation of microorganisms - Online and in-situ cell-monitoring under high pressure conditions
  Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Alfred Leipertz, Prof. Dr. Reinhard Lerch
  Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Stefan Becker
  Ph.D. students: Marika Izydor
  Start: 01.12.10
  End: 30.11.12
  
• Hyoer Rayleigh scattering (HRS) for the investigation of early stages of particle formation
  Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Ulf Peschel, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Peukert
  Ph.D. students: Christian Mehringer
  Start: 01.04.11
  End: 31.03.13
  
• Optical investigations of the dynamics and kinematics of transitional flow structures in a pipe conducted by birefringent fluid and stereo PIV
  Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Antonio Delgado
  Coordinator: Dr. Özgur Ertunc
  Ph.D. students: Alena Taranka
  Start: 01.06.11
  End: 31.05.13
  
• Development of the phosphor thermometry for the investigation of reacting flows
  Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Christoph J. Brabec, Prof. Dr. Alfred Leipertz
  Coordinator: Dr.-Ing. Lars Zigan
  Ph.D. students: Gordana Jovicic
  Start: 01.08.11
  End: 31.07.13
  
• Characterization of different light sources via 2-photon-Interferometry
  Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Michael Schmidt
  Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Joachim von Zanthier
  Ph.D. students: Johannes Hölzl
  Start: 15.10.11
  End: 14.10.13
  
• Die Teilungen des Malariaerregers Plasmodium falciparum – Ansatzpunkte für neuartige Antimalariamittel auf Basis optischer Screening-Technologien
  Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Dr. Oliver Friedrich
  Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Dr. Oliver Friedrich
  Ph.D. students: Cornelia Voigtländer
  Start: 01.05.13
  End: 30.04.15
  

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Optics in Communication and Information Technology

• Optical Ultra-High-Speed-Data Transmission
  Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schmauß
  Coordinator: Dr. habil. Georgy Onishchukov
  Ph.D. students: Chien-Yu Lin
  Start: 01.07.08
  End: 30.06.10
  
• All-Optical Regenerators Based on nonlinear Loop Mirrors
  Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schmauß
  Coordinator: Dr. habil. Georgy Onishchukov
  Ph.D. students: Muhammad Rameez Asif
  Start: 01.03.09
  End: 27.02.11
  

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Optics in Medicine

• Raman Spectroscopy for tissue characterization for in vivo diagnostics
  Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Alfred Leipertz, Prof. Dr. Dr. Friedrich Neukam
  Coordinator: PD Dr. Dr. Florian Stelzle
  
• Optical process diagnostics and process controlling by emission spectra analysis for tissue specific laser surgery
  Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Dr. Friedrich Neukam, Prof. Dr. Michael Schmidt
  Coordinator: PD Dr. Dr. Florian Stelzle
  Ph.D. students: Rajesh Kanawade
  
• Advanced fungus imaging for early detection of eye diseases
  Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger, Prof. Dr. Friedrich E. Kruse
  Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger
  Ph.D. students: Markus Mayer
  Start: 01.10.07
  End: 30.09.09
  
• Dynamic measurement and analysis of the corneal tear film with a newly developed system
  Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Willi Kalender
  Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Achim Langenbucher
  Start: 01.11.07
  End: 31.10.09
  
• Detection and Evidence of Hyaluronan Acid as Glaucoma Protector by Dynamic Light Scattering
  Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Andreas Fröba, Prof. Dr. Alfred Leipertz, Prof. Dr. med. Elke Lütjen-Drecoll
  Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Andreas Fröba
  Ph.D. students: Tanja Kugler
  Start: 01.11.07
  End: 31.10.09
  
• Exploration of new concepts for sensor-regulated tissue specific laser surgery
  Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Alexandre Douplik, Prof. Dr. Dr. Friedrich Neukam, Prof. Dr. Michael Schmidt
  Coordinator: PD Dr. Dr. Florian Stelzle
  Ph.D. students: Azhar Zam
  Start: 01.11.07
  End: 31.10.09
  
• Non-invasive measurement for quantification and differentiated analysis of protein concentration in the aqueous humour
  Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Willi Kalender, apl. Prof. Dr. Norbert Lindlein
  Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Achim Langenbucher
  Start: 01.01.08
  End: 31.12.08
  
• Development of fiber sensor for combined in vivo local monitoring of epithelium vessel/capillary density and blood oxygenation
  Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Alexandre Douplik
  Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Alexandre Douplik
  Ph.D. students: Rajesh Kanawade
  Start: 01.01.08
  End: 31.12.10
  
• Glaucoma Risk Index Using Appearance Based Methods
  Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger, Prof. Dr. Georg Michelson
  Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger
  Ph.D. students: Attila Budai
  Start: 01.03.08
  End: 28.02.09
  
• Retrospective 3-D Microscopy: Volume Processing and Morphology Visualzation
  Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger, Prof. Dr. med. Elke Lütjen-Drecoll
  Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger
  Ph.D. students: Simone Gaffling
  Start: 01.05.08
  End: 30.04.10
  
• Hyperspectral and Fluorescence imaging diagnostics and guidance for the surgery of stomach cancer
  Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Alexandre Douplik, Prof. Dr. Eckhart Georg Hahn
  Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Alexandre Douplik
  Ph.D. students: Martin Hohmann
  Start: 01.09.08
  End: 31.08.10
  
• Biological and Technical Vision Intelligent stimulators of specific channels of visual perception
  Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Alexandre Douplik, Prof. Dr. Georg Michelson
  Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Georg Michelson
  Ph.D. students: Jan Paulus
  Start: 01.07.10
  End: 30.06.12
  
• Development of basic procedures for the application of time-of-flight (ToF)camera technology in open and laparoscopic surgery
  Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger
  Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger
  Start: 01.01.11
  End: 31.12.13
  
• Assessment and Perceptual Learning of Stereopsis by a 3D Video Simulation
  Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Georg Michelson
  Ph.D. students: Jie Tong
  Start: 01.09.11
  End: 31.08.13
  

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