- Degree
- Master of Science in Photonics
- Course location
- Jena
- Teaching language
- • English
- Languages
- Courses are held in English (100%).
You do not need to be skilled in the German language. The whole programme is taught in English. However, we offer German language courses to all of our students to immerse themselves deeper in the German culture.
- Full-time / part-time
- • full-time
- Mode of study
- Fully on-site with voluntary online elements
- Programme duration
- 4 semesters
- Beginning
- Winter semester
- Additional information on beginning, duration and mode of study
- September/October: start of the new semester in Jena
- Application deadline
- The application deadlines are:
• 15 January (first priority deadline for all applicants)
• 1 March (second priority deadline for all applicants)
• 15 April (third priority deadline for all applicants)
• 15 June (rolling admission deadline for EU applicants)
• 15 September (rolling admission deadline for German applicants and applicants with a valid German residence permit)
More information (https://www.asp.uni-jena.de/msc-application)
- Tuition fees per semester in EUR
- None
- Combined Master's degree / PhD programme
- No
- Joint degree / double degree programme
- No
- Description/content
- The international MSc in Photonics course offered by the Abbe School of Photonics (ASP) is based on a long tradition of education in photonics at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Obtaining a Master's degree at ASP means to be immersed deeply in the rich and stimulating research environment of our Abbe Center of Photonics (https://www.acp.uni-jena.de/). Thus, our Master's degree students obtain hands-on experience while taking methodology courses that take place in state-of-the-art photonics laboratories. By choosing the respective elective modules, our students can already specialise in at least one out of five key education areas during their Master's degree studies.
Our research and education partners include also the local Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering, the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, and the Helmholtz Institute Jena as well as a number of prominent industrial partners like ASML, JENOPTIK, OSRAM, PHILIPS, SCHOTT, TRUMPF, and ZEISS.
Video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqhYJGPtpmI)
The MSc Photonics is part of a full-scale education programme of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena specialising in optics and photonics, starting at undergraduate level (BSc in Physics), continuing at Master's level, and culminating in a structured doctoral programme. The MSc Photonics course schedule commences its first semester with a compulsory adjustment module of fundamental lectures. The longer that students follow the programme, the larger their freedom to choose from a great number of different subjects from the catalogue of the MSc Photonics study programme will be. Likewise, students are encouraged to make use of our research-grade laboratories to further their growing experience and knowledge of photonics, and to inspire independent thinking and creativity in our young scientists.
The Master's degree course contents include:
Fundamentals of Optics and Materials: ray optics, wave optics, electromagnetic optics, wave propagation, guided waves, light-matter interaction, non-linear optics, quantum optics, quantum technologies
Optical Devices and Systems: lens design & instruments, metrology, optical sensors, optical communications subsystems, laser devices, laser systems, opto-electronic devices
Imaging: imaging systems, statistical signal and image processing
Practical training: hands-on research experience in state-of-the-art optics laboratories of the university and, in particular, in industry
New Frontiers in Optics:
• Quantum technologies, e.g. for quantum imaging, communication and sensing
• Advanced sources (quantum dots laser, petawatt/femtosecond/megajoule lasers, quantum cascade lasers, fibre lasers, XUV)
• Optical systems (3D metrology, remote sensing, advances in optical fabrication, adaptive optics, optomechanical design)
• Biophotonics (fluorescence sensors, optical tweezers, laser diagnostics and surgery)
• Nanophotonics (metamaterials, photonic crystals, sub-wavelength structures, plasmonics)
• Optical communication technology (optical fibres, optical active components, and optical signal processing)