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Newsletter 5 released Sep-2025
The latest METAMORPHA newsletter is now available, including the following items:
-LASEA gives an update on the laser machine.
-Intelligent surface monitoring in laser micromachining at UPV
-RWTH work to improve beam shaping using machine learning
-ARDITEC reports on quantifying the impact from the METAMORPHA project.
METAMORPHA with LIMEs at World of Photonics 2025
METAMORPHA will be part of the LIMES booth at World of Photonics 2025 at the Munich Messe next week (24-27 Jun-2025). Please come and visit Booth 342 in Hall B3 to find out more about the project!
METAMORPHA in Horizons magazine
METAMORPHA featured in a recent issue of Horizon magazine, in an article entitled, Cutting waste, not corners – how advanced lasers are shaping eco-friendly manufacturing. METAMORPHA coordinator, Martin Osbild, was one of the lead contributors to the article which discusses the contribution of the project to increasing sustainability in manufacturing.
METAMORPHA newsletter 4 released
The fourth METAMORPHA newsletter has been released and is available from the project newsletter page. It includes items on:
-Real-time monitoring and control at FENTISS
-ILT integration of the METAMORPHA system
-Update on the tkSE and Ceratizit use cases
-Progress on high resolution workpiece scanning at Datapixel.
METAMORPHA paper in J. Laser Appl.
Congratulations to METAMORPHA researcher Milena Žurić for the publication of her recent ICALEO paper, Real-time analysis of inline sensor data during USP-laser machining with Goomaral Sukhbold.
This is now available from the Journal of Laser Applications: https://doi.org/10.2351/7.0001544
J. Laser Appl. 36, 042004 (2024).
This paper discusses some of the issues of applying real-time sensors in USP laser machining: a topic central to METAMORPHA.
METAMORPHA beam shaping video
Paul Buske (RWTH) has won several prizes for his work on beam shaping, which is central to the METAMORPHA approach. In this video, one can see the measured intensity distribution of a laser beam along the optical axis.
The set-up containing two SLMs is tasked to create both a caterpillar and a butterfly distribution at two different distances simultaneously. The measurement is done with a camera on a linear stage and starts behind both the cascaded SLMs and a focusing lens with the target planes placed around the original focus. The width of the caterpillar is approximately 500 µm. Both distributions can be created successfully, highlighting the 3D beam shaping capabilities of the METAMORPHA set-up.
Please get in touch if you have any questions!
METAMORPHA at PULSATE final workshop
This week, Folkert Vrijburg from Philips represented METAMORPHA at the Laser Innovation Summit in Brussels which is the final public event in the LIMES Cluster project PULSATE. This two-day summit was designed to showcase the latest advances and applications of laser technology in manufacturing. It was a great opportunity for networking with related industrial partners and LIMES members.
METAMORPHA and LIMES at LPM 2024
Martin Osbild (ILT), Moritz Battermann (ILT) and George Tsibidis (FORTH) are all at LPM 2024 (San Sebastian, 11-14 Jun-2024) this week to represent METAMORPHA and the LIMES Cluster!
The LIMES session will be held on THU afternoon 13-Jun-2024 (starts 14:10 in Hall; 2), part of Special Session 1. This will feature presentations from OPERATIC and BILASURF and two from METAMORPHA.
Please visit the LIMES booth and pick up some merchandise and ask any questions to the researchers.
Another prize for Paul!
Paul Buske (RWTH) has won yet another prize for his paper at Photonics Europe 2024! In addition to the Best Student Paper which was reported recently, Paul has also been awarded first place in the Best Paper Award for the Conference on Computational Optics 2024.
His paper, Enhancing three-dimensional beam shaping accuracy through cascaded spatial light modulators using diffractive neural networks is a key part of the METAMORPHA approach, and will be integral to the work in the rest of the project.
Well done Paul!