PhD Programme in Optics & Photonics at the Karlsruhe School of Optics & Photonics (KSOP) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany

The Max Planck School of Photonics offers a structured Master’s to PhD direct-track programme based at Friedrich Schiller University Jena and delivered through a network of teaching universities including Friedrich Schiller University Jena , Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuernberg , and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology . The programme is organised in two phases. Applicants with a qualifying Master’s degree can move directly into the three-year research phase and begin their PhD resear...

PhD opportunity in spatiotemporal integrated metamaterials and nonreciprocal photonics at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) , Department of Electrical Engineering. The project is part of the SPARK Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network and focuses on designing dynamically modulated, chip-scale metamaterials for nonreciprocal light control. The research combines theoretical and numerical design , on-chip fabrication using advanced nanolithography, and experimental demonstration of nonrec...

Applications are invited for a fully funded PhD at Aston University within the Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies (AiPT) . The project is titled Next-Generation Optical Signal Processing Using Nonlinear Fourier Methods and focuses on optical signal processing , optical communications , photonics , and nonlinear optics . The research addresses how to control the nonlinear Fourier spectrum in hardware, with a particular emphasis on developing and applying Optical Darboux Transformers to add ...

Chalmers University of Technology is advertising a postdoc in novel approaches for compact optical parametric amplifiers (OPAs) and optical parametric oscillators (OPOs) at the Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience / Photonics Laboratory. The project sits at the intersection of photonics, optics, nonlinear optics, physics, electrical engineering , and nanofabrication , with applications in next-generation laser sources for spectroscopy, quantum technologies, and advanced imaging . You wi...

PhD opportunity at the University of Southampton in the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) / Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences. The project, “More data, less energy: multicore fibre amplifiers and components for future submarine networks,” focuses on optical communications , multicore fibres , fibre amplifiers , and energy-efficient submarine networks . You will combine modelling with hands-on experiments to design, build, and test next-generation multicore amplifiers and optical c...