Visitor tours

We offer guided tours of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics for interested study groups, delegations and school classes on a limited basis. Due to space restrictions in the laboratories and current infection protection regulations, we can only receive visitor groups with a maximum of 16 people. Small groups of up to eight people then visit two laboratories in turn. 

A guided tour at the MPQ usually proceeds as followed:

• Introductory lecture with an overview of the structure, history and research areas of the institute. Duration: approx. 30 - 45 minutes
• Scientists will guide you through two different laboratories and explain their experiments. Duration: approx. 60 minutes

Total duration of the tour: approx. 1.5 to 2 hours

Possible experiments for the guided tour are:

Division	Experiment	Duration
Attosecond Physics	Atomic „photography“ with attosecond pulses	ca. 45 minutes
Laser Spectroscopy	Laser frequency comb	ca. 30 minutes
	Hydrogen spectroscopy	ca. 30 minutes
Quantum Dynamics	Cold polar molecules	ca. 30 minutes
	Bose Einstein Condensaten	ca. 30 minutes
	Single Photon Server / Q-Gate	ca. 30 minutes
	Photon pistol	ca. 30 minutes
Quantum Many-Body Systems	Optical lattices	ca. 30 minutes

 

 

Teachers who would like to visit the institute with their students should send their request directly to the head of the student laboratory, Dr Silke Stähler-Schöpf: silke.staehler-schoepf@mpq.mpg.de