The Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung (IKZ) is an international state-of-the-art competence center for science & technology as well as service & transfer for innovations in and by crystalline materials. The R&D spectrum thereby ranges from basic over applied research activities up to pre-industrial research tasks.

The Center for Laser Materials (ZLM) is dedicated to research on crystalline materials for optical applications. To this end we use our state-of-the art laser and spectroscopy laboratories as well as the interdisciplinary research infrastructure at the IKZ. Our topics comprise optical crystals for laser applications, optical isolators and nonlinear frequency conversion.