Optical Engineer (all genders) in Adaptive Optics for High-Power Lasers

Job description

Shaping the technologies of tomorrow – that is our mission at the Fraunhofer Institute for Op-tronics, System Technologies, and Image Exploitation IOSB. We research, develop, and evaluate innovative imaging systems and ensure the optimal deployment and networking of sensors to efficiently process and analyze the resulting data streams. In this way, we support people in decision-making, process optimization, and the intelligent control of autonomous systems. Where research meets application, change happens. Shape the future with us! Our Signatorics Department at the Fraunhofer Institute for Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation (IOSB) in Ettlingen, Germany, is offering a full-time position on the subject of adaptive optics (AO) for high-power lasers. This position is based in the Adaptive Optics Group, where research activities focus on laser propagation through turbulence (particularly along horizontal paths and in strong turbulence), free-space laser communications and directed energy. Notable research achievements include the development of a holographic wavefront sensor with a bandwidth in the 100 kHz range, a patented angular transmission wavefront sensor, and m...