MSc Optical Sciences

First, Optical Sciences represent a dynamic area of research which, time and again, provides astonishing discoveries and fascinating fundamental insights, many of them of particularly aesthetic value; these include the discovery of energy quanta and Max Planck's black-body radiation formula, Albert Einstein's explanation of the photoelectric effect, the invention of the laser (Nobel prize 1964 for Charles H. Townes, Nikolai Basov, and Alexander Prochorov), and fundamental tests of quantum mechanics (Nobel prize 2012 for Serge Haroche and David Wineland).