Speaker: Carlos Serpa (University of Coimbra & LaserLeap) This webinar will explore the journey from fundamental research to a viable business model within a technology-based university spin-off. Using the case of LaserLeap Technologies  - a medical and aesthetic device company founded in 2011 by a professor, a researcher and a doctoral student - we will examine […]

Speaker: Irina Alexandra Paun (INFLPR) The biomedical engineering sector is one of the most rapidly growing industrial areas, bringing together engineering, medicine and biology, to develop novel technologies for medical treatment. Modern biomedical engineering advanced the concept of “reverse engineering”, which means building micro- and nano-structures with functional biomimicry by extracting design parameters from biological […]

Speaker: Mika Pettersson (Laserlab-NSC) Graphene and other 2D materials have many excellent properties but seldom they can be used as such in advanced applications. One option is to chemically modify and functionalize 2D materials. However, many applications require spatially selective functionalization and patterning. Laser-based methods offer many advantages in this regard. A common optical material […]

Speaker: Inka Manek-Hönninger (University of Bordeaux, CNRS-CELIA) Femtosecond laser materials processing in the GHz-burst mode has attracted much attention in the last few years , especially for top-down percussion drilling in dielectrics thanks to the outstanding machining quality of the holes . In this contribution, I will first give an introduction to femtosecond laser GHz-burst […]

Speaker: Séverine Boyer (MINES-Paris/PSL) Orbital debris removal in low Earth orbit (LEO) opens the way to a new paradigm in space propulsion. The use of high-power pulsed laser interaction (HP PLI) offers a perspective in this field. This concept is based on laser ablation. The high-power HiLASE beamline facility (Dolní Břežany, Czech Republic), with Perla-B […]

Speaker: Jakub Cikhardt (Czech Technical University) The interaction of a focused high-power laser with matter results in the generation of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP). In the case of terawatt and petawatt lasers, the intensity of the EMP is strong enough to interfere with diagnostic signals and may cause malfunction or distortion of electronic devices. Moreover, […]

Speaker: Christian Tzschaschel (University of Zurich) Weyl semimetals have emerged as a promising quantum material system to discover novel electrical and optical phenomena, due to their combination of nontrivial quantum geometry and strong symmetry breaking. Here, I will present the observation of the nonlinear optical diode effect (NODE) in the magnetic Weyl semimetal CeAlSi, where […]

Speakers: Eleanna Pirgianaki (IESL-FORTH) In recent years, photoacoustic (PA) techniques have gained significant role in the field of cultural heritage (CH) diagnostics, proving to be powerful tools for the detailed investigation of complex and fragile objects such as paintings, documents and murals. These techniques are based on the PA effect, which involves the generation of […]