ERC Advanced Grant
Award year: 2025
Category: Scholarship / Grant
Type: ERC Advanced Grant
Awarding organization: Europäischer Forschungsrat (ERC)
Prof. Dr. Maria Chekhova, Professor of Optics at FAU and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, has succeeded in generating quantum light particles in ultra-thin materials. Because these materials are only a few hundred nanometers thick, different physical rules apply to them - for example, different types of quantum light can be generated simultaneously with a single one of these light sources. In the new project, Maria Chekhova now wants to exploit the full potential of these flat, multifunctional sources and generate not only pairs of light particles in experiments, but also much more complex quantum light states that have never been observed before. She also aims to convert entangled photons into other quantum forms or light frequencies.