Blind radar for visual impaired people

The aim of this project is to develop an innovative assistance system for visually impaired people. It uses a 120 GHz FMCW radar that detects obstacles that are outside the range of a conventional cane. To make use as intuitive as possible for users, the radar system is integrated into a handy device. A special lens ensures that only objects within ...

Duration: 01/2025 - 12/2025

Contact: Stephan Kruse, M.Sc.

Visible Light Sensing

Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are increasingly being used as a primary light source both indoors and outdoors. In addition to their role as efficient lighting, LEDs also offer potential for new applications in sensor technology like visible light sensing (VLS) thanks to their high switching speed. VLS uses several terahertz (THz) of license-free ...

Duration: 01/2025 - 12/2025

Contact: Stephan Kruse, M.Sc.

SPP 2314; TP: MLL-basierte Integrierte THz Frequenz-Synthesizers (MINTS) Phase 2

Overarching goal of the project MINTS (phase 1 and 2) is to investigate and demonstrate electronic-photonic THz frequency synthesizer architectures, which conform to the requirements of integration in silicon photonics and Indium Phosphite (InP) photonic technology. Improvement in phase noise performance of the electronic-photonic THz synthesizers ...

Duration: 09/2024 - 08/2027

Contact: Meysam Bahmanian, Vijayalakshmi Surendranath Shroff, M.Sc.

LiDAR Radar Combi System

The main goal of the LiRaS-project is the integrated combination of a LiDAR and Radar system with a fine resolution, which is able to compete with moden high-resolution LiDAR systems by having an additional level of redundancy. The novel LiRaS system provides imaging, three-dimensional LiDAR and Radar data with a high signal-to-noise-ratio. ...

Duration: 05/2024 - 04/2027

Contact: Jan Brockmeier, M.Sc., Stephan Kruse, M.Sc.

MID4automative: Mechatronic Integrated Devices for Automotive Radar Systems

Novel and innovative technologies like automated and autonomous driving will provide solutions to pressing global issues related to traffic. Autonomous cars will contribute by optimizing traffic flows, resulting in a more efficient use of energy resources and infrastructure. In addition, they ensure better traffic regulation, which results in fewer ...

Duration: 03/2023 - 02/2026

Contact: Stephan Kruse, M.Sc.

SPP 2314: INtegrated TERahErtz sySTems Enabling Novel Functionality (INTEREST)

The vision of the INTEREST SPP is to establish a well-defined terahertz community by following a holistic ‘integration’ approach in a dedicated coordinated initiative. The theme ‘Integrated Terahertz Systems’ will enable unseen functionalities and applications in the field of terahertz science and technologies. To accomplish this aim, effective ...

Duration: 01/2022 - 12/2026

TRR 142 - Compact high performance photon pair source using ultrafast hybrid modulators based on CMOS and LNOI (C11*)

The project aims to study and demonstrate miniaturized sources of decorrelated photon pairs with high repetition rate. The goal will be achieved by jointly integrating high-bandwidth electro-optic modulators, and a specifically tailored parametric down-conversion (PDC) section, both in a lithium-niobate-on-insulator (LNOI) platform. To obtain ...

Duration: 01/2022 - 12/2025

Contact: Christian Kress, M.Sc.

PhoQuant: Photonic Quantum Computing - Quantum computing evaluation platform

When a sufficient number of quantum particles are interconnected, quantum computers can handle tasks that are unsolvable for classical computers. This – among other unique selling points – is a major advantage of photonic platforms: Integrated architectures and sophisticated manufacturing processes offer an enormous scaling potential. The aim of ...

Duration: 01/2022 - 12/2026

Contact: Dr. Benjamin Brecht, Prof. Dr. Christine Silberhorn

Photonic Quantum Systems Network (PhoQSNET) - Quantum communication infrastructure

Data security is critical to modern society. From personal data and identity fraud to cyber-attacks threatening the integrity of sovereign nations, the need for secure communication and data processing has never been greater. While quantum networks address some of these issues, in that they can be provably secure for many cryptographic ...

Duration: 01/2022 - 12/2027

Scale4Edge: Scalable infrastructure for edge computing

Scale4Edge is a joint project funded by the BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research), which aims to significantly reduce the currently relatively long development times and high development costs of application-specific edge components (platform concept). The approach pursued in the project is based on providing a commercial ecosystem for ...

Duration: 05/2020 - 12/2025

Contact: apl. Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Müller