OSMIN Group
What is new?
— I eventually managed to edit my publication list. The list is ordered by topics, with comments, and it offers many PDFs. Have fun. My scientific biography, with reflections about how to do research, is here: https://tinyurl.com/haeuslerScientificBio
— Starting in April 2025, I am a guest scientist, invited by my good old (in fact, he is much younger) colleague Professor Joachim von Zanthier. He holds the renowned ‘Professorship for Experimental Physics’ at the Institute of Optics, Information, and Photonics. My new host group is working on high-level quantum optics, quantum imaging, and fundamental questions. During five decades of research in classical optics and optical metrology, it is a shame that I was never obliged to explicitly learn quantum optics. However, a great part of my work was dedicated to nature’s limits for metrology, so I will take the opportunity to look over the fence, and I hope at least to find some interesting questions for my new colleagues.
My new website, now hosted by Prof. von Zanthier’s group, will be supplemented step by step
After more than 45 years of research and teaching at Erlangen, and a long time after my „official“ retirement, my last students found their place in industry or as professors. My research group has shut the lights down, but so many years of hard work of so many people left traces: some 300 master and PhD theses, more than 300 papers and patents, a spin-off company, lecture notes, reflections about „how to research“… Many documents can be found via Google, but there are papers and other documents that are not yet publicly available. I will organize these documents here, step by step. The publication list includes some 300 papers and 30 patents. You may send me an email with paper requests.
Eventually, I want to thank my teacher, Adolf Lohmannfor teaching me how to research, how to give a talk, and much more. And I say thank you to my former students for all the passionate discussions and close relations that made research so much fun. They kept me young.
Areas of research (draft, more to come)
The acronym OSMIN – our program: „Optical Sensing, Metrology and INspection“
„Our aim is to understand the physical and information theoretical limits of optics and optical 3D sensors. We apply this knowledge to investigate and build new sensors that work at those limits. Most of the projects are in cooperation with partners from industry, medicine or art conservation. Our sensors are commercialized by „3D-Shape GmbH“, Erlangen, a 2002 spin-off from our group.
Papers 2015-2022 see: https://gerdhaeusler.github.io