Physicists convince with their publications in optics and photonics

Two scientific publications by researchers of the Denz team at University of Münster rank among the best 30 research studies of the year 2019, rates "Optics & Photonics News". With their annual special issue in December, the journal selects the highlights in optics and photonics of the past year. A commission of experts reviewed more than 90 international studies of the year 2019 and selected the best publications. In the last years, researchers of the team Nonlinear Photonics of Cornelia Denz at the Institute of Applied Physics of Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU) were already represented with several publications in the high score list. The honored studies: Photonic chip in diamond In one of the highlighted publications, Haissam Hanafi from the team of Cornelia Denz worked together with nano-physicists of the group of Wolfram Pernice, fabricating novel structures in diamond. Together, they demonstrated an innovative approach to structure so-called polycrystalline diamond in the microscale. In doing so, they developed three-dimensionally integrated photonic circuits that feature efficient waveguiding of light.