PhotonLab
The student lab at the MPQ — Since 2011, the PhotonLab — built up by MPQ, LMU and MCQST — has been a focal point for all those who want to learn about light. Over 5,000 visitors have already taken the opportunity to learn here. Nearly 2,000 students visited in 2015 alone, and this number is rising.
Experiments
You can try out around 20 experiments at the Student Lab. Measure how thick your hair is, how light bends, or get to know holography.
Media gallery
Videos — in our media center you can find videos on current research, and films that illuminate the fundamentals of the physics of light.
What is a spectroscope?
Video —When lab intern Paula shines the light of a torch into a spectrometer, all the colors of the rainbow are revealed. Dr. Annekatrin Sommer explains why this device is indispensable for laser physicists in the lab.
Competition
Students, show us the facets of light — To celebrate the International Year of Light, we held a competition in which we asked school students to individually interpret and present the many facets of light in an exciting way.
Welcome to Photonworld – a platform for knowledge, interesting facts and science on the topic of light. Photonworld aims to provide a basic understanding of the physics of light and its countless phenomena. From medicine, to art and physics: all topics are covered.
Photonworld originated as an initiative of the excellence cluster the Munich-Centre for Advanced Photonics (MAP) and the Laboratory for Attosecond Physics (LAP) at the Max Planck Institute
of Quantum Optics (MPQ). The initiator of the project is Prof. Dr. Ferenc Krausz, Chair of Experimental Physics at the LMU and Director of the MPQ.
Photonworld’s Student Zone reports directly out of the PhotonLab, which is supported by the Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology (MCQST). At the PhotonLab, schoolteachers and students can find up-to-date information about experiments and goings-on at the lab, and plan their own visit to the laboratory.