FEMTOPLANE - FEMTOsecond fibre oscillator PLANar waveguide amplifiEr laser system to enable advanced industrial materials processing

飞秒激光已成为眼科激光屈光手术的成熟工具，但由于激光的复杂性、对工业环境、尺寸和成本缺乏稳健性，其在工业材料加工中的使用潜力尚未实现。基于简单、直接放大结构的紧凑型、成本效益高的飞秒光纤激光器最近已开始在需要适度脉冲能量的应用中取代传统的固态激光技术。然而，这项技术在它们提供的脉冲能量方面存在根本限制；最大5uJ是商业最先进的。FEMTOPLANE将解决这一限制，将领先的超快光纤激光器制造商(菲亚特有限公司)和南安普敦光电子研究中心的世界知名研究人员聚集在一起，开发一种非常新颖的超快激光平台。提供高达80uJ的脉冲能量和

Femtosecond lasers have become an established tool for ophthalmic laser refractive surgery but their potential for use within industrial materials processing has yest to be realised owing to the laser complexity, lack of robustness for industrial environmentals, size and cost.Compact, cost-effective femtosecond fibre lasers based on simple, direct amplification architectures have recently started to replace conventional solid-state laser technology within applications requiring modest pulse energy. However, the technology has fundamental limitations in the pulse energy they deliver; a maximum of 5uJ is the commercial state-of-art. FEMTOPLANE will address this limitation, bringing together leading ultrafast fibre laser manufacturers (Fianium Ltd) and world-renowned researchers at Southampton's Optoelectronics Research Centre to develop a highly novel ultrafast laser platform. Delivering up to 80uJ pulse energy and