• Optical measurement of pH in microscopic samples
  • Biological samples unfold into single-protein details in the laboratory of Nano Optics.
  • The laboratory operates the National standard time and its frequency and it implements the national time scale UTC (TP), which is involved in the creation of the Co-ordinated Time UTC.
  • Fiber lasers can achieve better pump-absorption efficiency by unconventional coiling of the active fiber.
  • Highly sensitive measurement of endogenous luminescence of organisms enables non-invasive monitoring of oxidative stress
  • Optical Biosensors can be used, for example, in medical diagnostics, food quality control or environmental monitoring.

News update

Open days in 2018
The Institute of Photonics and Electronics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic welcomed during the Open days almost 500 visitors.
Josef Kučera when awarding the prize for the 2nd place in the I. science field (second from left)
Student Josef Kučera, who joined the Open Science Project this year with his internship at the IPE, succeeded in the student scientific conference and gained 2nd place in the I. science field.
Week of Science and Technology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
The largest scientific festival in the Czech Republic has reached the age of majority. The rich program began on 5 November 2018 by the President of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Eva Zažímalová, and the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Andrej Babiš.
Hana Faitová winner of the best poster competition at NANOCON
Poster "Highly Ordered Arrays of ZnO Nanorods prepared with the help of Focused Ion Beam", authored by Hana Faitová, MSc., a member of the Preparation and Characterization of Nanomaterials Team of IPE, was awarded the best poster of the NANOCON 2018 conference.
Our Institute was hosting professor Yuri Feldman from Hebrew University of Jerusalem last days within the CAS project for Czech-Israel collaboration.
Detail of the optical biosenzor developed at IPE
Jiří Homola, director of the Institute of Photonics and Electronics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, spoke in an interview for Týden magazine in the second part of the series Czech Science Close: Photonics and Electronics.

Seřiďte si své hodinky podle našich atomových hodin.

Laboratoř vytváří fyzickou aproximaci jednotky času a realizuje národní časovou stupnici UTC(TP).

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The team is engaged in the research of photonic and plasmonic (nano) structures and functional biomolecular files, the development of optical measuring methods and systems, the study of biomolecular interactions and detection of chemical and biological agents in areas such as medical diagnostics, food quality control or environmental monitoring.

Research covers the high power fiber lasers and their use for material processing, medicine and nonlinear optics.

Activities of the department are focused on the characterization of materials and structures destined for use in optoelectronics and microelectronics. Major attention has been paid to III-V materials, binaries GaP, InP, GaAs and GaSb, ternaries InGaP, AlGaAs and quaternary InGaAsP.

The team explores novel paths to future electrodynamic and electronic therapeutic and diagnostic methods in biotechnology and medicine. Team develops new theoretical methods and nanotechnology enabled experimental tools to analyze both active and passive electromagnetic properties of biomaterials from the level of molecules to tissues.

The newly established Nano Optics group focuses on advancing the knowledge of light-matter interactions below the diffraction limit of light as well as development of novel experimental methods that address current topics in biology, biophysics, and biochemistry.

Research in the Time and Frequency Department is focused on ultra-sensitive short-term frequency stability measurement at low radio frequency in ambient temperature, both in time and frequency (spectral) domains. Research also concerns applications of the dual-mixer time-difference multiplication method in accurate measurement of short time-delays in electronic components.

IPE carries out fundamental and applied research in the scientific fields of photonics, optoelectronics and electronics. In these fields, IPE generates new knowledge and develops new technologies.

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