The innovation cluster combines the strengths of the business and scientific communities, the German federal government and the Free State of Thuringia to achieve three key goals: Using light to help develop solutions to some of the most pressing issues of the future, opening up new markets in areas that are ripe for future development, and creating a basis for sustainable growth to maintain Germany’s status as a leading industrial nation.

• Energy-efficient lighting
• Energy Technology
• Environmental and food sensory analysis
• Energy- and resource-efficient production
• Resource-efficient optical engineering (Green Optics)

Solutions that use light

The sustainable use of light – or ‘green photonics’ – can make a key contribution toward solving these challenging future issues.

• Light provides the basis for CO2-neutral energy generation
• Light enables processes that make efficient use of energy and resources
• Light helps us control and manage environmental and climate-related disasters
• Light plays a role in ensuring safe supplies of food and drinking water

• Vistec Electron Beam GmbH
• Active Fiber Systems GMBH
• asphericon GmbH
• Docter Optics GmbH
• Grintech GmbH
• Fresnel Optics GmbH
• JENOPTIK AG
• GÖPEL electronic GmbH
• LEJ Leistungselektronik GmbH
• OTTO Vision Technology GmbH

• Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF
• OptoNet e.V. / CoOPTICS GmbH