Since June 2021, the test phase has been completed and the Laboratory Support Group of the Department of Physics has been working productively on the new coating system. The "Creamet 450 e-beam" system replaces its technologically obsolete predecessor.

David Pohl, Rachel Grange, Fabian Kaufmann and Marc Reig Escalé are among the top five finalists for the Spark Award 2021. They entered the competition with their invention “Tunable electro-optic modulator for boosting the efficiency of telecommunication systems”.