The Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (IPHT —

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: Institut für Photonische Technologien) is a non-university research facility in

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. Focused on applications for various physical systems, the Institute's mandate is to find solutions to challenges in high technology systems. IPHT carries out research in the following areas:

magnetics Magnetism is the class of physical attributes that are mediated by a magnetic field, which refers to the capacity to induce attractive and repulsive phenomena in other entities. Electric currents and the magnetic moments of elementary particle ...

, quantum electronics,

optics Optics is the branch of physics that studies the behaviour and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments that use or detect it. Optics usually describes the behaviour of visible, ultrav ...

, microsystems,

biophotonics The term biophotonics denotes a combination of biology and photonics, with photonics being the science and technology of generation, manipulation, and detection of photons, quantum units of light. Photonics is related to electronics and photons. P ...

and laser technology. The Institute works with both universities and companies. The IPHT coordinates several EU-Projects funded by the

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: * Photonics4Life * S-Pulse * High-EF * Rod-Sol * Fiblys

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