Max-Born-Institute

The Max-Born-Institute (MBI) for Nonlinear Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy was founded in 1992. It belongs to FVB and is a member of the "Leibniz association". The institute has about 180 members of staff of which 90 are scientists (including PhD students).

It conducts basic research in the field of nonlinear optics and ultrafast dynamics of the interaction of light with matter and pursues applications which emerge from this research.

For these investigations it uses laser based ultrafast light sources in a broad spectral range from the mid-IR through the visible down to the x-ray wavelength region. With its research the MBI fulfils a nationwide mission and is an integral part of the international science community. It offers its facilities and its scientific know-how also to external researchers within the framework of an active guest programme. The institute is involved in a large number and variety of cooperative research projects with universities, other research institutions and industrial partners. The research is distributed among internal research projects.
From the foundation of MBI the laser research has been focussed on all-solid-state ultrafast lasers and nonlinear optics for frequency conversion and extension of the tunability.