The twenty-first century will be the age of optics. Our daily life is shaped by optics – more than most people are aware of. The human eye is both our most important and our most complex sensory organ. Without optical technologies, there would be no cameras, no microscopes and no telescopes, but also no internet, no Instagram and no YouTube. By using optical technologies, humanity can control the formation, propagation and transformation of electromagnetic radiation in a spectral range from far infrared to X-rays. Learn more: https://www.uni-hannover.de/en/forsch...