Description du projet
Un laser ultrarapide puissant et polyvalent au service de la médecine et d’autres domaines
Les lasers ultrarapides sont de plus en plus demandés pour des applications dans la chirurgie ophtalmique et la fabrication d’endoprothèses, l’électronique grand public et la recherche scientifique. Le projet VISUAL, financé par l’UE, prévoit de développer une plateforme laser ultrarapide rentable et polyvalente qui offre une puissance élevée, des impulsions optiques ultracourtes et une capacité de réglage de la longueur d’onde extrêmement large. La plateforme proposée, capable de fonctionner à des taux de répétition élevés (60 MHz), sera évaluée dans les domaines de la bio-imagerie sans étiquette et du diagnostic médical, de la thérapie par faisceau d’électrons et de la microfabrication de fibres et de verre.
Objectif
Medical and consumer electronics markets drive an ever-growing demand for powerful, compact, high quality and cost-effective femtosecond (fs) sources. Ophthalmic surgery and stent manufacturing in the medical field, post-processing of OLED panels defective pixels and smartphones machining in the consumer electronic field are examples of maturing processes where Ultrafast Lasers (UL) are key enablers. In the global scientific instrumentation market, non-linear multimodal optical microscopy (multiphoton absorption fluorescence or coherent Raman microscopy), high energy photon coherent radiation via high harmonic generation processes, high energy particle beam generation, time-resolved dynamic charge transfer studies in materials are in increasing use in research laboratories. Such increasing business perspectives fuel a worldwide competition for UL manufacturers.
The VISUAL project aims to strengthen the leadership of the industrial UL manufacturing partners in the scientific, medical and industrial application fields, based upon a novel design-to-cost and innovative UL platform providing an unprecedented technical versatility. This high-average-power platform will deliver ultrashort optical pulses with pulse-on-demand capability at very high repetition rates (60 MHz) and with extremely broad wavelength tuning ability. The numerous benefits of this platform, designed for multi-purpose applications cases, will be assessed, within the framework of VISUAL, in label-free bio-imaging and medical diagnosis, in “on-chip” particle acceleration for electron-beam therapy, and in advanced fiber and glass microstructuration.
Champ scientifique
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringfibers
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringmanufacturing engineeringsubtractive manufacturing
- natural sciencesphysical sciencesopticsmicroscopy
- natural sciencesphysical sciencesopticslaser physicsultrafast lasers
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationsmobile phones
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinateur
06600 Antibes
France
L’entreprise s’est définie comme une PME (petite et moyenne entreprise) au moment de la signature de la convention de subvention.