Maria Chekhova

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15APR 2026
Bernd Witzigmann
FAU LMQ Insight Talks – Summer Semester 2026
This semester, we continue the FAU LMQ Insight Talk series given by members of the FAU LMQ. These talks are a great opportunity to see the research being conducted by our members and their groups. The talks are open to everyone. Coffee and drinks will be provided. The colloquium will take place on Fridays from […]
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09APR 2026
Christoph Marquardt
CEWQO30 – The 30th Central European Workshop on Quantum Optics 2026
The 30th Central European Workshop on Quantum Optics (CEWQO30) will be held in Erlangen, Germany. This edition is jointly hosted by the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) and is organized by our PIs Maria Chekhova and Christoph Marquardt. As a long-standing series, CEWQO serves as an […]
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03DEC 2025
FAU LMQ News
Building bridges between strong-field physics and quantum optics
FAU physicists investigate behavior of electrons in intense quantum light A working group at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) has made an important contribution to investigating the fundamental connections between strong field physics and quantum optics: The researchers have investigated for the first time how electrons emitted by metallic needle tips after light is shone on them […]FAU physicists investigate behavior of electrons in intense quantum light A working group at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) has made an important contribution to investigating the fundamental connections between strong field physics and quantum optics: The researchers have investigated for the first time how electrons emitted by metallic needle tips after light is shone on them […]
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26JUN 2025
FAU LMQ News
ERC Advanced Grant for FAU researcher Maria Chekhova
The team around Prof. Dr. Maria Chekhova, Professor of Optics at FAU and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, has been funded with the highest European research grant. With a highly competitive ERC-Advanced Grant of 2,5 Million Euro for five years, the scientific team will investigate how complex quantum light can be generated and used.
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14JAN 2025
FAU LMQ News
FAU LMQ People Spotlight: Maria Chekhova
In this FAU LMQ People Spotlight, we interviewed our member Maria Chekhova, who is Professor of Optics at FAU since 2020 and an independent research group leader at MPL since 2010. What is your research topic? I am working in experimental quantum optics. In my group we generate various types of quantum (nonclassical) light. How is […]
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29JUL 2024
FAU LMQ News
FAU LMQ Research Spotlight: A liquid crystal source of photon pairs
Spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) – the splitting of a single photon in two – is crucial for photonic quantum technologies. In its very essence, SPDC breaks the inversion symmetry. It is therefore only possible in non-centrosymmetric crystals but not in isotropic materials like ordinary liquids or gases. Recently, however, ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals have been […]
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