The “Karlsruhe School of Optics & Photonics” (KSOP) offers a novel combined masters program and a Ph.D. program – both of which are new for the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) as well as for Germany in general. KSOP is supported by 12 professors from different departments of the KIT. Physics, chemistry, biology and mechanical as well as electrical engineers from KIT and partner institutions contribute in a multidisciplinary way to the new program.

 

The four KSOP research areas are organized according to the needs in education and the existing strengths of the research programs at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). We have structured KSOP along the following four research areas:

• (I) Photonic Materials & Devices
• (II) Advanced Spectroscopy
• (III) Biomedical Photonics
• (IV) Optical Systems

 

All research areas are strongly interlinked and most institutes feature research projects in more than one of the research areas.

• Light Technology Institute (LTI)
• Department of Measurement and Control (MRT)
• Institute for Applied Physics (AP)
• Institute of Inorganic Chemistry
• Institute of Photonics and Quantum Electronics (IPQ)
• Institute for Microstructure Technology (IMT)
• Institute of Nanotechnology (INT)
• Institute of Physical Chemistry
• Institute for Information Processing Technology (ITIV)
• Institute for Theoretical Solid-State Physics (TFP)
• Institute of Zoology I, Cell- and Neurobiology

 

KIT - The Cooperation of Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH and Universität Karlsruhe (TH)

 

• Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI), Karlsruhe
• Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung (ZSW), Stuttgart
• International Department GmbH, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
• HECTOR School of Engineering and Management