SAOT Funded Projects
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
- 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
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
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
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
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
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
News
Presentations of candidates for Young Researcher Award 2018 on March 20th
Extended application deadline forSAOT Young Researcher Award: Feb 19th 2018
Congratulations to Professor Leipertz for winning the 2018 Yeram S. Touloukian Award
The SAOT crew from Science sets Sail comes home
Young Researcher Award 2017 to Roarke Horstmeyer
First PRISM-SAOT Summer School on additive Manufacturing
Mission
SAOT provides an interdisciplinary research and education program of excellence within a broad international network of distinguished experts to promote innovation and leadership in the areas
Optical Metrology
Optical Material Processing
Optics in Medicine
Optics in Communication and Information Technology
Optical Materials and Systems
and Computational Optics.