New Laser Syatem for Precision Processing Applications

该项目旨在为基于新型平面(板条)激光器体系结构的一系列具有竞争力的新激光产品的后续开发提供技术平台，其变体将与不断增长的市场机会紧密结合。这些变体包括：1)用于材料加工(标记、切割、钻孔、微加工)的皮秒激光，基于最近的研究表明，~1微米的皮秒激光脉冲可以产生高精度的结果，而不会产生标准激光加工所看到的有害的热效应；2)更长的脉冲-眼安全~2微米激光用于靶标和医疗应用。RSUL是基于气体放电的紧凑型板条激光器的欧洲领先供应商，通过将其板条激光技术扩展到二极管泵浦的固体激光器，并通过与其HWU合作伙伴在平面固体激光器方面的世界级技能的密切联系，积累了专业知识，从而处于进入这一市场的理想地位。为了实现这一目标，我们提出了一个协调计划中53%的工业研究和47%的竞争前开发的战略组合，旨在为未来开发新系列(SOW、10OW、300W)的激光/生产技术提供支撑激光/生产技术，该系列激光器在性能和可靠性方面与目前的产品相比具有竞争力/优势。我们建议采用高效率二极管泵浦模块、低M2谐振器和先进的低成本制造技术来开发新型平面振荡器/放大器设计。

This project aims to generate the technology platform for the subsequent developmentof a range of competitive new laser products based on a novel planar (slab) laserarchitecture, variants of which will closely align with growing market opportunities.These variants include: 1) picosecond lasers for materials processing (marking,cutting, drilling, micromachining), based on recent research which shows that pseclaser pulses at~ 1 micron produce high precision results without the detrimentalthermal effects seen with standard laser processing; 2) longer pulse eye-safe ~2micronlasers for targeted marking and medical applications. RSUL is the leading Europeansupplier of compact slab lasers based on gas discharges, and is ideally positioned toenter this market by extending its slab laser technology to diode pumped solid statelasers, building expertise by close linkage with the world-class skills in planar solidstate lasers of its HWU partners. To achieve this, we propose a strategic mix of 53%industrial research and 4 7% pre-competitive development in a coordinated programmestructured to generate the underpinning laser/production technology for the futuredevelopment of a new family oflasers (at SOW, lOOW, 300W) which arecompetitive/superior in performance and reliability against current offerings. Wepropose to develop novel planar oscillator/amplifier designs with high efficiencydiode pump modules, low M2 resonators and advanced low cost fabricationtechnologies.