IEF News 2025
Tiny component for record-breaking bandwidth
A modulator developed by researchers from ETH Zurich has broken the terahertz mark. The ultrafast component efficiently transmits large volumes of data into the fibre-optic network in a short space of time.
Optica Names Prof. Juerg Leuthold the 2025 Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize Recipient
Optica (formerly OSA), the society dedicated to promoting the generation, application, archiving and dissemination of knowledge in in the science of light, awards Prof. Juerg Leuthold the 2025 Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize. Prof. Leuthold, head of the Institute of Electromagnetic Fields (IEF), is honored for pioneering plasmonics based devices and in particular developing broadband modulators and detectors with highest bandwidths.