• Andreas Wicht

    Head, Joint Lab Laser Metrology at Ferdinand-Braun-Institut

    Andreas Wicht heads the Joint Lab Laser Metrology at the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik (Berlin, Germany).

    (Credit: NASA)
    On May 24, 2018, the Northrop Grumman (formerly Orbital ATK) Cygnus spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station. The vehicle carried, among other things, NASA’s Cold Atom Laboratory.
    Andreas Thoss
    Jan. 27, 2021
    Qualifying a versatile ultracold atom experiment for the International Space Station requires many steps, with integrated laser systems playing a key role.
    (Courtesy of Jens Große/MAIUS)
    FIGURE 1. For the MAIUS mission that demonstrated the first Bose-Einstein-Condensate in space, the complete experimental setup fit into a pressurized chamber measuring 50 cm in diameter and 2.79 m long inside the rocket.
    Andreas Thoss
    Jan. 18, 2018
    Quantum sensing may reach industry before cryptography or computing—an example is a Berlin collaboration that is miniaturizing the lasers for satellite operations in which quantum...