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Chair of Experimental Physics
Max-Planck Fellow Group
Laser Physics and Photonics
(Director: Prof. Dr. Lijun Wang)
Division-II conducts basic and applied research in a wide range of areas in high-precision metrology, novel lasers and other light sources, and the applications of femtosecond lasers in material processing and machining. In addition, we design and fabricate a variety of precision instruments. Using these novel instruments, we are able to observe and measure a number of new phenomena, such as gravity aberration and variation.
We do research in following areas:
- Precision Measurements, Gravity, Time and Distance
- Microscopy and Spectroscopy
- Novel Materials and Photonics
Lijun Wang received his Ph.D. degree in Physics from the University of Rochester in 1992. He was a Research Associate at Duke University from 1992 to 1994. From 1994 to 1996, he was a Senior Scientist at the Research Institute of General Atomics Corp. From 1996 to 2004, he was a Research Scientist and subsequently a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at the NEC Research Institute (NEC Laboratories America) in Princeton, NJ.
From 2004 to 2008, he was a director of the Max-Planck Research Group – Institute for Optics, Information, and Photonics. He is also a Chair Professor of Experimental Physics (C4) at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, in Erlangen, Germany. In 2006, he was appointed adjunct Professor of Engineering. Since January 2009, he is a Max-Planck Fellow (part time) at the Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL).
Dr. Wang was a Visiting Fellow at JILA (1997-98) in the laboratory of Dr. J. L. Hall (2005 Nobel Laureate in Physics) and a Topical Editor of Optics Letters (1999-2003). Dr. Wang is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA).