Ultrashort pulsed kW-class laser with unprecedented flexible GHz burst operation for high precision high-throughput industrial manufacturing

Project Information

kW-flexiburst

Grant agreement ID: 825246

DOI 10.3030/825246

Project closed

EC signature date 12 November 2018

Start date 1 January 2019

End date 30 June 2024

Funded under

• INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

Total cost € 5 120 078,75

EU contribution € 5 120 078,75

Coordinated by

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS
France

Deliverables

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

kW-flexiburst Dissemination Toolkit

Preliminary dissemination toolkit will including; a project website, templates and resources for disseminating the project at scientific conferences, flyers and infographics to initially communicate the kW-flexiburst concepts.

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (13)

Comprehensive theoretical analysis of the period chirp in laser interference lithography

Author(s): Florian Bienert; Thomas Graf; Marwan Abdou Ahmed
Published in: Applied Optics, Issue Vol 61 Issue 9, 2022, Page(s) 2313-2326, ISSN 2155-3165
Publisher: Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/ao.451873

Theoretical investigation on the elimination of the period chirp by deliberate substrate deformations

Author(s): Bienert, Florian; Graf, Thomas; Abdou Ahmed, Marwan
Published in: Optics Express, Issue Vol30, Issue 13, 2022, Page(s) 22410-22420, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.18419/opus-12196

Electro-optic comb pumped optical parametric oscillator with flexible repetition rate at GHz level

Author(s): Hanyu Ye, Valerian Freysz, Ramatou Bello-Doua, Lilia Pontagnier, Giorgio Santarelli, Eric Cormier, Eric Freysz
Published in: Optics Letters, Issue 46/7, 2021, Page(s) 1652, ISSN 0146-9592
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/ol.421621

Generation of extremely high-angle Bessel beams

Author(s): Valeria V. Belloni; Luc Froehly; Cyril Billet; Luca Furfaro; Francois Courvoisier
Published in: Applied optics, Issue 62(7), 2023, Page(s) 1765-1768, ISSN 1559-128X
Publisher: Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/ao.482826

X-ray emissions during laser machining of cylindrical microcomponents

Author(s): Roswitha Giedl-Wagner and Thomas Lang
Published in: Photonics View, 2022, ISSN 2626-1308
Publisher: Wiley online library
DOI: 10.1002/phvs.202270311

Experimental analysis on CPA-free thin-disk multipass amplifiers operated in a helium-rich atmosphere

Author(s): Florian Bienert, André Loescher, Christoph Röcker, Thomas Graf, and Marwan Abdou Ahmed
Published in: Optics Express, Issue Vol. 30, Issue 21,, 2022, Page(s) pp. 38027-38042, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.469697

Frequency-doubled high-power optical vortex beam with sub 500 fs pulse duration

Author(s): André Loescher, Florian Bienert, Christoph Röcker, Thomas Graf and Marwan Abdou Ahmed
Published in: Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2022, ISSN 2169-3536
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
DOI: 10.1109/jlt.2022.3225903

Simple spatially resolved period measurement of chirped pulse compression gratings

Author(s): Florian Bienert; Christoph Röcker; Thomas Graf; Marwan Abdou Ahmed
Published in: Optical Express, Issue Vol 31 Issue 12, 2023, Page(s) 19392-19403, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.489238

Multi-GHz repetition rate, femtosecond deep ultraviolet source in burst mode derived from an electro-optic comb

Author(s): Hanyu Ye, Lilia Pontagnier, Clément Dixneuf, Giorgio Santarelli, Eric Cormier
Published in: Optics Express, Issue 28/25, 2020, Page(s) 37209, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.409782

Multi-GHz femtosecond pulses from linear and non-linear propagation of a phase-modulated laser

Author(s): Hanyu Ye, Lilia Pontagnier, Eric Cormier, and Giorgio Santarelli
Published in: Optics letters, Issue Vol. 47, Issue 20,, 2022, Page(s) pp. 5405-5408, ISSN 1539-4794
Publisher: 0146-9592
DOI: 10.1364/ol.473167

High-power nonlinear amplification of an ultrafast electro-optic frequency comb with flexible GHz repetition rate

Author(s): Hanyu Ye, Florian Leroi, Lilia Pontagnier, Giorgio Santarelli, Johan Boullet, and Eric Cormier
Published in: Optics Express, Issue 30;7, 2022, Page(s) 10605-10613, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.451001

Single Shot Generation of High‐Aspect‐Ratio Nano‐Rods from Sapphire by Ultrafast First Order Bessel Beam

Author(s): Valeria Viviana Belloni; Mostafa Hassan; Luca Furfaro; Remo Giust; Anne‐Magali Seydoux‐Guillaume; Sergio Sao‐Joao; Francois Courvoisier
Published in: Laser and Photonics Reviews, Issue Vol 18 issue 3, 2023, Page(s) 2300687, ISSN 1863-8880
Publisher: Wiley - VCH Verlag GmbH & CO. KGaA
DOI: 10.1002/lpor.202300687

Thin-disk multipass amplifier delivering sub-400 fs pulses with excellent beam quality at an average power of 1 kW

Author(s): André Loescher, Florian Bienert, Christoph Röcker, Thomas Graf, Martin Gorjan, Jürg Aus der Au, and Marwan Abdou Ahmed
Published in: Optics Continuum, 2022, Page(s) pp747-758, ISSN 1943-8206
Publisher: The Optical Society
DOI: 10.1364/optcon.451490

Conference proceedings (1)

Development of high-power ultrafast lasers: Quo Vadis

Author(s): Marwan Abdou Ahmed
Published in: Solid State Lasers XXX: Technology and Devices, 2021, Page(s) 503, ISBN 9781510641648
Publisher: SPIE LASE
DOI: 10.1117/12.2593113