Optics and Photonics Funding by the German Research Foundation
. Claus Roll is a director of research and program development for OSA Europe. In a recent article, we offered an overview of the general funding schemes in Germany, the European Union’s largest economy. We noted there that areas explicitly described as “optical technologies” received a total of €245.8 million of public funding in 2020—but that the total funding for optics and photonics is likely much larger, with much of it “hidden” in other domains like electronic systems, microsystems, nanotechnology and materials technologies. The remaining articles in this series will drill...