Curriculum
Information on the MSc in Optical Sciences program
The MSc in Optical Sciences program is exclusively taught in English and prepares the students for a challenging career in the optics & photonics industry or for the pursuit of a doctoral degree. This is facilitated through several temporally overlapping stages with increasing degrees of specialization.
Stage 1 features a broad in-depth education in state-of-the-art optics knowledge with a focus on coherent light-matter interaction. This is followed by stage 2 where the student acquires specialized skills in an elective subject - these elective subjects represent the main research areas of the different research groups at Humboldt University of Berlin and the cooperating non-university research institutes in the Science- and Technology-Park Berlin-Adlershof. Finally, within stage 3 the students start into their own independent research which leads up to the final 6-month master thesis.
The corresponding modules are:
Stage 1: Optical Sciences
- Fundamentals of Optical Sciences (12 ECTS credit points)
- Advanced Optical Sciences (6 ECTS credit points)
- Optical Sciences Laboratory (6 ECTS credit points)
- Seminar Optical Sciences (6 ECTS credit points)
Stage 2: Elective Subjects
- Nonlinear Photonics (3 modules, 6 ECTS credit points each)
- Quantum Optics (3 modules, 6 ECTS credit points each)
- Short-Wavelength Optics (3 modules, 6 ECTS credit points each)
- Theoretical Optics (3 modules, 6 ECTS credit points each)
Stage 3: Independent Research
- Advanced Optical Sciences Laboratory (15 ECTS credit points)
- Introduction to Independent Scientific Research (15 ECTS credit points)
- Master thesis (30 ECTS credit points)
Detailed descriptions of the modules can be found here.