The Course 'Optics Lab', Module 732 gives the student the opportunity to handle his/her own research project within one or more of the research groups in the field of Photonics (Buse, Fiebig, Meschede, Weitz). It is a practical training/internship embedded in a research group, which can have several aspects:
- setting up a small experiment
- testing and understanding the limits of experimental components
- simulating experimental situations
These projects will be carried out in close contact with the members of the research group, and credit points can be obtained after the completion of a written report. The Optics Lab is a 4 credit point course in the Bonn Master study program in Physics.
This course also covers the requirement of a mandatory research internship for members of the Bonn-Cologne Graduate School of Physics and Astronomy.

The course can be taken anytime, especially within the term breaks.