News

2025

 

October

• Douglas McDonald's invited talk "Coherent Modulation for Free-Space Optical Communications: Impact of Turbulence and Link Optimization" at the 51st European Conference on Optical Communication, 28 September - 2 October 2025, Copenhagen, Denmark 
• Invited talks "Turbulence-resilient and High Data Rate Coherent Wireless Communications" and "ESA project "ADAMO": High-Power Adaptive Optics for Laser Momentum Transfer" at the Optica Laser Congress and Exhibition, 19 - 23 October 2025, Prague Congress Centre, Prague, Czechia

January

• Funding from the Fraunhofer central funds (330,000 €) for extension of the laser communications laboratory  

 

2024

 

July

• Dr. Andreas Zepp will deliver the invited presentation "Wavefront sensor based on angle selectivity of an optical filter" at the SPIE conference Laser Communication and Propagation through the Atmosphere and Oceans, 18 - 22 August 2024, San Diego, California, USA
• Dr. Szymon Gladysz will give the invited talk "Wavefront Sensing for Fast Moving Platforms", at the High-Power Lasers and Technologies for Optical Countermeasures SPIE conference, 16 - 19 September 2024, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

June

• Dr. Szymon Gladysz gives the invited talk "Adaptive Optics in Astronomy, Biomedical Imaging, Energy Delivery and Free-Space Optical Communications", at the European Machine Vision Association Business Conference in Gdańsk, Poland
  

May

• Dr. Giacomo Sorelli receives 2.5 million Euro funding for his QMAGIC group from the Fraunhofer ATTRACT programme

February

• Dr. Szymon Gladysz gives the keynote presentation "Coherent Free-Space Optical Communications", at the European Photonics Industry Consortium Delegation to Abu Dhabi, UAE

 

2023

 

November

• NATO STO IST Panel Young Scientist Award for Douglas McDonald

July

• "Adaptive Optics for Terrestrial, Deep-Space and Underwater Laser Communications Systems", invited presentation at the XVIII International SPIE and OPTICA Student Chapter Meeting, Gdańsk, Poland

• Dr. Giacomo Sorelli gives an invited presentation "Transmission Matrix Approach to Turbulence Profiling", at Optica’s Imaging Congress, Propagation Through and Characterization of Atmospheric and Oceanic Phenomena, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• International patent EP4433787A1 / US 2025/0012636 A1 “Ascertainment of a wavefront gradient of a light on the basis of angle-dependent transmission”
• Fraunhofer IOSB publication prize for Dr. Szymon Gladysz

 

2022

 

December

• "Influence of Atmospheric Turbulence on Coherent Free-Space Optical Communications", invited presentation at Optica’s Laser Congress and Exhibition, Barcelona, Spain

• "Coherent Free-Space Optical Communications", invited presentation at the OASIS 8 - International conference & Exhibition on Optics & Electro-Optics, Tel Aviv, Israel

October

• Dr. Giacomo Sorelli (Sorbonne University) wins the ERCIM Scholarship to carry out independent research on quantum optics in the AO group at Fraunhofer IOSB

July

• Dr. Szymon Gladysz gives an invited presentation "Strategies for Correction of Atmospheric and Underwater Effects on Laser Communications Systems", at Optica’s Imaging Congress, Propagation Through and Characterization of Atmospheric and Oceanic Phenomena, Vancouver, Canada
  

 

2021

 

August

• Invited talk "Wavefront Sensing for Terrestrial, Underwater and Space-borne Free-space Optical Communications",  at the Laser Communication and Propagation through the Atmosphere and Oceans X conference, San Diego, USA

2020

January

• Dr. Melissa Beason will talk about her work at Fraunhofer IOSB as an invited speaker at the "Propagation Through and Characterization of Atmospheric and Oceanic Phenomena" conference, part of OSA Optical Sensors and Sensing Congress, 22 - 26 June, Vancouver, Canada

 

2019

September

• Julia Hofmann received the Best Student Paper Award at SPIE Remote Sensing 2019 for her paper "Validation of distortion in long-range video sequences straightness metric and reference frame generation"

July

• We welcome Professor Donald McGaughey (on sabbatical from the Royal Military College of Canada).
• The article "Measurements of Temperature and Image Motion Structure Functions in a Rayleigh-Bénard Water Tank" based on the M.Sc. thesis of José P. Montoya wins the OSA Best Student Paper Award at this year’s pcAOP meeting.
• Dr. Szymon Gladysz receives Fraunhofer IOSB publication prize (2^nd place)
• Workshop on Non-Kolmogorov Turbulence and Associated Phenomena

January

• We welcome two new guest scientists: Assoc. Prof. Andrew Lambert (on sabbatical from the University of New South Wales, Australia) and Dr. Melissa Beason (University of Central Florida)
  

 

2018

December

• First experiments in the Underwater Communications Laboratory
  

June

• Dr. Italo Toselli will be invited speaker at the "Environmental Effects on Light Propagation and Adaptive Systems" SPIE conference, 10 - 13 September 2018, Berlin, Germany
  

May

• Opening ceremony of the new Laser Communications Laboratory in the tower
  

January

• Dr. Italo Toselli will give an invited presentation at the "Propagation through and Characterization of Atmospheric and Oceanic Phenomena" conference, 25 - 28 June 2018, Orlando, Florida, USA
  
• Dr. Szymon Gladysz will give an invited presentation at the 18th International Conference on Laser Optics (ICLO 2018), 4 - 8 June 2018, St. Petersburg, Russia

 

2017

 

January

• Dr. Szymon Gladysz will give an invited presentation at the OSA conference "Propagation Through and Characterization of Atmospheric and Oceanic Phenomena"
  

 

2016

 

September

• Andreas Zepp wins the 1^st Prize in the "Are You the Photonic Brain?" competition from Qioptiq

 

2015

 

September

• Lydia Yatcheva, M.Sc. student in the group, received the Best Student Paper Award at SPIE Remote Sensing 2015 for her paper "Ultimate turbulence experiment: simultaneous measurements of Cn2 near the ground using six devices and eight methods" (9641-4)

August

• Dr. Szymon Gladysz is invited speaker at the "Laser Communication and Propagation through the Atmosphere and Oceans" conference, part of  SPIE Optics + Photonics 2015

July

• AO group wins funding (275,000 €) for construction of the laser communications laboratory from Fraunhofer central funds

June

• Dr. Esdras Anzuola (Polytechnic University of Catalonia) wins the ERCIM Scholarship to carry out independent research in the AO group at Fraunhofer IOSB

 

2014

 

July

• Dr. Szymon Gladysz receives Fraunhofer IOSB publication prize (2nd place)

June

• AO group organizes "Advanced Threat Warning, Tracking and Laser Countermeasures in Atmospheric Turbulence" workshop in Ettlingen

 

2013

 

September

• Dr. Italo Toselli (currently at the University of Miami) wins the ERCIM Scholarship to carry out independent research in the AO group at Fraunhofer IOSB