Ferdinand-Braun-Institut

The Berlin-based Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik (FBH) has a new Administrative Director: Dr. Karin-Irene Eiermann (46). She comes from the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society and, together with the long-time Scientific Director Prof. Dr. Günther Tränkle, now forms the new dual leadership of FBH gGmbH. Eiermann replaces Christian Köhler-Ma, who had been the interim Administrative Head of the institute in Berlin-Adlershof from January 2021 following the change of the corporate form to a non-profit GmbH.

FBH has significantly increased the optical power of its 760 nm tapered lasers to 9 W while maintaining good beam quality with high power in the central lobe (> 60 %) – due to an optimized epitaxial structure and ridge waveguide length.

The Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik (FBH) presents its advanced developments at the Photonics Days Berlin Brandenburg both at the conference and the accompanying exhibition.

With the unique 5G-MIMO hardware measurement system and the developed IF and RF calibration procedure, we have now verified 1-port measurements at 12.5 GHz with a signal with an instantaneous IF bandwidth of 500 MHz.

Project partners plan to launch first satellite with quantum technology attitude control in 2027 // Quantum sensors are a key technology for accurately controlling the orientation of communication satellites // Scientific expertise to be provided by the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik (FBH) // German government allocates eight-figure sum to support QYRO project