Science, Technology & Highlights

The mission of our institute is the development, characterisation and operation of optical elements and optical setups for research with synchrotron radiation from infrared to the hard x-ray range. This challenge is taken up by:

• continuously  improving the performance of our existing SR-beamlines to meet  the needs of our user community
• developing and setting up new beamlines in accordance with user requirements
• designing and producing novel optical elements using micro- and nano-technological methods
• contributing to the development of optics for Free Electron Lasers (FEL)