Project Details
Projekt
EXC 158: Munich-Centre for Advanced Photonics (MAP)
Subject Area
Optics, Quantum Optics and Physics of Atoms, Molecules and Plasmas
Medicine
Medicine
Term
from 2006 to 2019
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 24819222
Photon-based tools and technologies will be key driving forces behind scientific and technological advances in the 21st century. In the quest to improve our understanding of nature advanced photonics will - via completely controlled light waves, laser-driven particle sources or microscopic probing and control techniques - be an enabling technology for a wide range of scientific fields.
Topics of major interest range from the search for minute differences between matter and antimatter, through acceleration of particles with unprecedentedly strong forces to the exploration of the ultimate speed and size limits of electronics and the quest to overcome them with fundamentally new hard- and software such as molecular electronics and quantum information processing. Alternatively, our focus may be the determination of protein structures with atomic resolution, understanding there function and ways of microscopic manipulation or improving cancer diagnostic and therapy. Scientists of the Munich-Centre for Advanced Photonics (MAP) have pioneered photonic tools, techniques and concepts of key importance for tackling these and other grand goals of the 21st century. Specific examples include precision optical frequency and attosecond metrology, complete control of ultra-intense light waves, cavity quantum electrodynamics, novel concepts for quantum information processing, manipulation of cold atoms, or molecules in free space or Bose-Einstein condensates, techniques for ultimate time-resolved molecular spectroscopy and laser-driven particle sources.
Building on leadership in such areas on a world stage, the mission of the MAP is to create an unparalleled infrastructure in photonics and a network of collaborations between physics, chemistry, biology and medical sciences for:
(1) Pursuing highly challenging scientific and technological goals, including improved tests of fundamental physical theories, pushing the frontiers of electronics, engineering quantum systems, and building prototypes of quantum computers and communication systems. We will advance the light-field manipulation of molecular structure, and develop compact tools for atomic-resolution imaging of individual biomolecules and next-generation medical imaging and particle therapy applicable in small hospitals.
(2) High-level training of outstanding junior scientists and promoting their careers in a uniquely inter-disciplinary environment by virtue of their contributions to MAP's local and international collaborations. They will learn the new sciences and technologies by playing a key role in their development and proliferation.
Topics of major interest range from the search for minute differences between matter and antimatter, through acceleration of particles with unprecedentedly strong forces to the exploration of the ultimate speed and size limits of electronics and the quest to overcome them with fundamentally new hard- and software such as molecular electronics and quantum information processing. Alternatively, our focus may be the determination of protein structures with atomic resolution, understanding there function and ways of microscopic manipulation or improving cancer diagnostic and therapy. Scientists of the Munich-Centre for Advanced Photonics (MAP) have pioneered photonic tools, techniques and concepts of key importance for tackling these and other grand goals of the 21st century. Specific examples include precision optical frequency and attosecond metrology, complete control of ultra-intense light waves, cavity quantum electrodynamics, novel concepts for quantum information processing, manipulation of cold atoms, or molecules in free space or Bose-Einstein condensates, techniques for ultimate time-resolved molecular spectroscopy and laser-driven particle sources.
Building on leadership in such areas on a world stage, the mission of the MAP is to create an unparalleled infrastructure in photonics and a network of collaborations between physics, chemistry, biology and medical sciences for:
(1) Pursuing highly challenging scientific and technological goals, including improved tests of fundamental physical theories, pushing the frontiers of electronics, engineering quantum systems, and building prototypes of quantum computers and communication systems. We will advance the light-field manipulation of molecular structure, and develop compact tools for atomic-resolution imaging of individual biomolecules and next-generation medical imaging and particle therapy applicable in small hospitals.
(2) High-level training of outstanding junior scientists and promoting their careers in a uniquely inter-disciplinary environment by virtue of their contributions to MAP's local and international collaborations. They will learn the new sciences and technologies by playing a key role in their development and proliferation.
DFG Programme
Clusters of Excellence
Applicant Institution
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Co-Applicant Institution
Technische Universität München (TUM)
Participating Institution
Helmholtz Zentrum München
Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Gesundheit und Umwelt; Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik (MPQ)
Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Gesundheit und Umwelt; Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik (MPQ)
Spokesperson
Professor Ferenc Krausz, Ph.D.
Deputy
Professor Dr. Michael Molls
Participating Researchers
Professor Dr. Fabian Bamberg; Professor Dr. Johannes V. Barth; Professor Dr. Claus Belka; Professorin Dr. Paola Coan; Professor Dr. Günther Dollinger; Professor Dr. Wolfgang Domcke; Professor Eleftherios Goulielmakis, Ph.D.; Professor Dr. Theodor W. Hänsch; Professor Dr. Stefan Karsch; Professor Dr. Reinhard Kienberger; Professor Dr. Ulf Kleineberg; Professorin Dr. Gabriele Multhoff; Professor Dr. Franz Pfeiffer; Professor Dr. Maximilian Reiser; Professor Dr. Eberhard Riedle; Professor Dr. Hartmut Ruhl; Professor Dr. Jörg Schreiber; Dr. Zsuzsanna Slattery-Major; Professor Dr. Thomas Udem; Professorin Dr. Regina de Vivie-Riedle (†); Professor Dr. Jan J. Wilkens; Professor Dr. Vladislav Yakovlev; Professor Dr. Wolfgang Zinth
