Lighting Technologies

  • Hologram embossing
    Led by: B. Roth
    Team: M. Rahlves
    Year: 2011
  • Diffractive Optics in Coherent Automotive Lighting
    Recent developments in lighting technologies in the automotive industry is heading towards coherent light sources, as incoherent light is difficult to shape. A lot of work has been done to integrate laser-based light sources for headlamps, butlaser based backlighting is still under investigation. Using the laser as a light source and diffractive optical elements (DOEs), high-resolution and thin rear lights can be realized.
    Led by: B. Roth, M. Rahlves
    Team: M.S. Khan
    Year: 2017
    Funding: Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur (MWK)
  • Imaging in Scattering Media
    Due to the effects of strong scattering, imaging in complex media such as biological tissue remains one of the great challenges of modern optics. Recent studies have shown that these effects may be compensated by spatially manipulating the light´s wavefront with active optical devices. This project aims to apply wavefront-shaping techniques to established imaging methods to enhance imaging performance and penetration depth in strongly scattering samples.
    Led by: M. Rahlves, B. Roth
    Year: 2017
    Funding: Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture (MWK)

Optical Information Technologies

  • Grating-assisted fibre optic couplers for mode-selective coupling
    The aim of this project is to investigate the manufacturing method for a novel mode selective fibre optic fusion coupler.
    Led by: B. Roth, L. Overmeyer
    Year: 2016
    Funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

Optical Sensors

  • gebo
    Led by: B. Roth
    Team: K. Bremer
    Year: 2011
  • InTex
    Led by: M. Wollweber
    Team: K. Bremer
    Year: 2011
  • Active Microoptics
    SPP 1337: Active Microoptics
    Year: 2011
  • Investigation of structural health monitoring of C³ elements using fiber optic sensors
    C3 - V4.5: Investigation of structural health monitoring of C³ elements using fiber optic sensors
    Led by: B. Roth
    Team: K. Bremer
    Year: 2016
    Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
  • Smartphone based optical point of care tests
    Led by: K. Bremer, B. Roth
    Team: M. Rahlves
    Year: 2017
    Funding: Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie (BMWi) und Europäischer Sozialfond (ESF)

Numerical Optics and Simulations

  • Thermomechanische und optische Simulation monolithischer Polymer-Sensorsysteme
    Numerical optics and simulation - sub-projects 2: Thermo-mechanical simulation of integrated polymer photonic devices
    Led by: B. Roth, M. Rahlves
    Team: M. Suar
    Year: 2016
  • Simulation of Light-Tissue Interaction in Biological Tissue
    Numerical Optics and Simulation - Subproject 1: Obtaining optic and acoustic properties of biological tissue via inverse simulations
    Led by: M. Wollweber, B. Roth
    Team: O. Melchert
    Year: 2016

Biophotonics and Analytics

  • RRS-OA
    Led by: M. Wollweber
    Year: 2011
    Funding: DFG
  • OCT
    Led by: B. Roth, M. Rahlves
    Year: 2011
  • ODONTO
    Year: 2011
  • Research Initiative "Water and Security"
    Led by: B. Roth, M. Wollweber
    Team: A.-K. Kniggendorf
    Year: 2011
  • Determination of melanoma thickness via optoacoustics and optical coherence tomography (OCT)
    Development of a method for the preoperative determination of the thickness of melanoma suspicious skin lesions.
    Led by: B. Roth, M. Wollweber, U. Morgner, M. Rahlves
    Year: 2013
    Funding: BMBF
  • OPTIMUS -Raman spectroscopy of microplastics, microbes, and trace elements
    online detection of contaminated microplastics in streaming drinking water with Raman spectroscopy for the BMBF joint project OPTIMUS.
    Led by: B. Roth
    Team: A.-K. Kniggendorf
    Year: 2016
    Funding: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
  • Smartphone based optical point of care tests
    Led by: K. Bremer, B. Roth
    Team: M. Rahlves
    Year: 2017
    Funding: Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie (BMWi) und Europäischer Sozialfond (ESF)
  • AMIRA - Analysis of microbial relations in vivo using Raman microscopy
    Projekt AMIRA is a cooperation between HOT and the department for Hydrobiology and Environmental Biotechnology at the Institute for Sanitary Engineering and Waste Management (ISAH) of the LUH and intends to establish cytochrome c-resonant Raman microscopy (CRRM) for the continuous analysis of bacterial relations in native, undisturbed biofilms in vivo and in situ with a resolution at cell level. This will allow for the time the direct observation of ongoing biofilm formation including phylogenetic information and phenotypic adaptation in complex biofilms in vivo.
    Led by: A.-K. Kniggendorf
    Year: 2018
    Funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - 397827619

Human Skin

  • Determination of melanoma thickness via optoacoustics and optical coherence tomography (OCT)
    Development of a method for the preoperative determination of the thickness of melanoma suspicious skin lesions.
    Led by: B. Roth, M. Wollweber, U. Morgner, M. Rahlves
    Year: 2013
    Funding: BMBF

Polymeroptics and Photonics

  • Polymer optics
    Led by: B. Roth
    Year: 2011
  • PlanOS-SFB Sub-Project C05
    Subproject C05 is investigating polymer-based sensors for life science. These sensors enable the optical and spectroscopic analytics in fluidic systems. The aim is to design a sensor, which is able to detect lowest analytic concentrations (final target single-molecule sensitivity). Operating principle of the sensor are Whispering gallery resonances in microspheres.
    Led by: M. Wollweber, U. Morgner
    Year: 2013
    Funding: DFG
  • PlanOS-SFB Teilprojekt C02
    The subproject C02 explores novel polymer-based sensor structures for optical strain-measurement, in terms of different sensor types as well as in terms of different manufacturing processes. In the long run, all approaches aim at a large-scale and a low-cost manufacturing process (e.g., roll-to-roll). The goal is the integration of sensor systems on polymer foils, which convert strain amplitude and direction into optical signals, enabling a wide range of applications. The main challenge lays in the implementation of strain sensors, which are based on intensity- and spectral-modulation, the study of parasitic effects and the development of calibration concepts as well as advancing lab-typical production processes to large-scale processes.
    Led by: B. Roth
    Year: 2013
    Funding: DFG
  • PlanOS-SFB Sub-Project B04
    Aim of this project is the design and fabrication of micro-optical structures for guiding light inside thin polymer foils as well as coupling light into and out of the foil. To realize a large area sensor network within PlanOS, a perfect interaction between all optical devices such as light sources, sensors and detectors is of great importance. Therefore, micro-optical structures are necessary, which connect all components to the sensor foil. One of the key issues is to increase the coupling efficiency of these linking structures as much as possible to gain maximum performance of the sensor networks.
    Led by: M. Rahlves
    Year: 2013
    Funding: DFG
    Duration: 4 Years

DFG- and Industry projects

  • RRS-OA
    Led by: M. Wollweber
    Year: 2011
    Funding: DFG
  • gebo
    Led by: B. Roth
    Team: K. Bremer
    Year: 2011
  • Hologram embossing
    Led by: B. Roth
    Team: M. Rahlves
    Year: 2011
  • InTex
    Led by: M. Wollweber
    Team: K. Bremer
    Year: 2011
  • OCT
    Led by: B. Roth, M. Rahlves
    Year: 2011
  • OPTIMUS -Raman spectroscopy of microplastics, microbes, and trace elements
    online detection of contaminated microplastics in streaming drinking water with Raman spectroscopy for the BMBF joint project OPTIMUS.
    Led by: B. Roth
    Team: A.-K. Kniggendorf
    Year: 2016
    Funding: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
  • AMIRA - Analysis of microbial relations in vivo using Raman microscopy
    Projekt AMIRA is a cooperation between HOT and the department for Hydrobiology and Environmental Biotechnology at the Institute for Sanitary Engineering and Waste Management (ISAH) of the LUH and intends to establish cytochrome c-resonant Raman microscopy (CRRM) for the continuous analysis of bacterial relations in native, undisturbed biofilms in vivo and in situ with a resolution at cell level. This will allow for the time the direct observation of ongoing biofilm formation including phylogenetic information and phenotypic adaptation in complex biofilms in vivo.
    Led by: A.-K. Kniggendorf
    Year: 2018
    Funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - 397827619

Research consortium and Collaborative projects

  • Research Initiative "Water and Security"
    Led by: B. Roth, M. Wollweber
    Team: A.-K. Kniggendorf
    Year: 2011
  • Polymer optics
    Led by: B. Roth
    Year: 2011

[uncategorized]

  • stochastic structures
    Year: 2011