Latest IPQ News

Within the funding programs of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung - BMBF), the IPQ successfully applied for the three projects HYPERCORE, PONTROSA and OPTIMUX.

The paper, “3D-printed facet-attached microlenses for advanced photonic system assembly”, written by Yilin Xu, former PhD candidate at IPQ, has been honored as an outstanding paper by the publishing journal Light: Advanced Manufacturing.

The paper, “O-Band SOH Mach-Zehnder Modulator Operating at a PAM4 Line Rate of 384 Gbit/s with Sub-Volt Drive Voltage”, written by Adrian Schwarzenberger, a PhD candidate at IPQ, was accepted as a post-deadline paper at OFC 2024.

At the young age of 90 years Professor Grau held his final lecture on Feb. 14, 2024.

Jasmin Rösner received the best award of the IHK Karlsruhe.

Joel Dittmer, PhD candidate at the IPQ, won the IMA e.V. sponsored Best Paper Award at the 26th European Microwave Conference in September 2023 in Berlin, Germany.

"Optical Arbitrary Waveform Generation and Measurement (OAWG/OAWM) Enabling 320 GBd 32QAM Transmission" written by PhD candidate at the IPQ Daniel Drayß was accepted as a Post-Deadline Paper.

"First Demonstration of a cryogenic Silicon Organic Hybrid (SOH) Mach-Zehnder Modulator with a Sub-1V π-Voltage" written by PhD candidate at the IPQ Adrian Schwarzenberger was accepted as a Post-Deadline Paper.

Construction work on the Karlsruhe Center for Optics and Photonics (KCOP) started on January 16, 2023.

A new publication by Pascal Maier, PhD candidate at IPQ, has been selected as an Editor’s Pick in the current issue of Optics Express.

Daniel Drayss, PhD candidate at IPQ, won the 2022 ADVA Best Student Paper Award at the 48th European Conference on Optical Communication in Basel, Switzerland.

Am 01. Juli haben die Partner des vom BMBF geförderten Projektes KIGLIS im Rahmen der Bunten Nacht der Digitalisierung ihre Vision eines KI-optimierten Glasfasernetzes für eine Smart City der Öffentlichkeit präsentiert.

Christoph Füllner, PhD candidate at IPQ, won the Best Student Paper Award in the category “Transmission Systems and Subsystems” at OECC/PSC 2022.

320 GHz analog-to-digital converter exploiting Kerr soliton combs and photonic-electronic spectral stiching

Reliable and high-performance communication networks are of great importance for our society. 6G is envisioned to serve as the infrastructure for future mobile applications based on artificial intelligence (AI).

Within the funding program "Forschung Agil - Raummultiplexing in faseroptischen Netzen" of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung - BMBF), the IPQ successfully applied for the project STARFALL.