Laserlab-Europe Newsletter #38: Lasers for Industry

At the crossroads of scientific discovery and industrial application lies a powerful catalyst for progress.
In this issue of Laserlab Forum, our focus topic explores how laser-based technologies are advancing
through dynamic collaborations between academia and industry. From developing cutting-edge
instrumentation to pioneering new applications, the laser experts from Laserlab-Europe have driven
many success stories.

• The UK’s Central Laser Facility: Open for business (CLF, United Kingdom)
• Material processing with femtosecond laser in GHz-burst operation (CNRS-CELIA, France)
• NANOLITE: original solutions for optical metrology at short wavelengths (LIDYL, France)
• ESTER: A versatile laser platform arising from a Czech industry-research collaboration (HiLASE, Czech Republic)
• Unravelling the chemical structures of agrochemicals and related derivatives using infrared ion spectroscopy (FELIX, The Netherlands)
• Lasers provide new insights for industrial plasmas (LLC, Sweden)
• A compact all-fibre laser system promises to revolutionise cancer diagnosis (CUSBO, Italy)
• Deep-UV Raman spectroscopy for sorting black plastic waste (LLAMS, The Netherlands)

• Innovative target design leads to surprising discovery in laser-plasma acceleration
• With light and AI: Innovative technology for more precise cancer surgeries
• Vacuum-ultraviolet attosecond pulses tracking ultrafast processes of natural systems
• Britta Redlich appointed as Photon Science Director at DESY
• Multiphoton 3D lithography
• New chairman of the Access Selection Panel at Lasers4EU: Ingo Fischer

Advanced micro-optics fabricated by multiphoton lithography for enhancing the lateral resolution in optical microscopy

Optical microscopy remains one of the most versatile tools for inspecting objects, organisms, or
surfaces at the micro- and nanoscale, but its lateral resolution is fundamentally limited by light
diffraction. With support from Laserlab-Europe, a team of scientists has developed a new
strategy for fabricating these structures via multi-photon lithography and integrating them into a
micro-device that can be flexibly incorporated into any optical microscope.

Congratulations to the five scientists who were recently awarded ERC grants, three receiving a Starting Grant, and two receiving an Consolidator Grant:

• Sven Askes (LLAMS),
• Eva Pogna (CNR-IFN),
• Franco V. A. Camargo (CNR-IFN),
• Mikkel Brydegaard (LLC), and
• Christoph Heyl (DESY/HIJ)

• Lasers4EU: Your central platform for accessing European laser research infrastructures
• ReMade@ARI: Are you interested in circular materials? Get access to more than 50 analytical facilities
• RIANA: Laserlab-Europe & RADIATE users’ meeting in nanoscience

Editorial Team: Tracey Burge, Marina Fischer, Julia Michel, Daniela Stozno 

office@laserlab-europe.eu