ÚFE is the main coordinator of the project LasApp: Breakthrough Laser Technologies for Smart Manufacturing, Space and Bio-Tech Applications, which succeeded in a tough competition in the Excellent Research call of the Programme Johannes Amos Comenius, co-financed by the European Union. The project started on 1 January 2024 and will run until 2028. On 18 January, we held a kick-off meeting with the project partners in the main building of the ÚFE in Kobylisy.
LasApp project partners:
- Institute of Photonics and Electronics of the CAS (main coordinator)
- Institute of Physics of the CAS (HiLASE centre in Dolní Břežany)
- Faculty of Science, Charles University (Biocev centre in Vestec)
- Institute of Scientific Instruments of the CAS in Brno
- Technical University of Liberec (CXI centre)
- Institute of Plasma Physics of the CAS (TOPTEC centre in Turnov)
The LasApp project primarily develops existing state-of-the-art laser technologies, for which it is looking for completely new application directions with the potential for breakthrough solutions on an international scale. The project will result in excellent scientific outputs including outputs with application potential. The project will lead to the internationalisation of laser technology research, the development of excellent teams and international cooperation. It will be important to have a broad collaboration with other institutes in the Czech Republic by creating a distributed infrastructure covering and coordinating research and development activities in the field of cutting-edge laser technologies, both in the research of advanced laser radiation sources and their potential use for smart processing and refinement of materials for circular economy, space and biomedical applications. The effectiveness of infrastructure investments will thus build on previous programme periods. The project includes, among others, the laboratories that made the first Czechoslovak lasers in 1962-1963 and are now among the leading labs in the field of laser technology in the Czech Republic and internationally. In ÚFE we focus on research on special optical fibers for fiber lasers, namely new types of active fibers and hollow-core fibers for gas lasers and for high power radiation transmission; and the use of these fiber in new types of fiber lasers and other applications.
Programme of the LasApp project kick-off meeting on 18 January 2024, at ÚFE Kobylisy, Chaberská 57
Introductory part
- 12:00 lunch in the ÚFE canteen
- 12:30-13:30 lab tours of the team of Fibre Lasers and Nonlinear Optics team
Main part
- 13:30-14:00 registration
- 14:00-14:15 Pavel Peterka: Presentation of the project, its objectives and planned results
- 14:15-14:25 Tomáš Mocek: HiLASE experience in large infrastructure projects
- 14:25-14:50 Lukáš Masopust and Václav Svoboda: Project and financial management of the LasApp project
- 14:50-15:05 Jan Aubrecht: Data management plan
- 15:05-15:30 Coffee break
- 15:30-15:45 Pavel Honzátko: Fiber lasers (VZ1 Advanced optical fiber technologies and applications)
- 15:45-16:00 Martin Smrž: Thin-fiber lasers (VZ2 Laser applications in space)
- 16:00-16:15 Zdena Palková: VZ3 Laser applications in biotechnology
- 16:15-16:30 Sunil Pathak & Jan Brajer: VZ4 Smart laser manufacturing
- 16:30-16:35 Pavel Peterka: Closing remarks
- 16:35-(18:00) Discussion, opportunity for working team meetings
