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.
The 8. UKP Workshop covers an overview on current developements in UKP-source technology and systems.
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.
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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.
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.
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!
Laser Induced Periodical Surface Structures (LIPSS) are at the focus of numerous projects in many European and global institutions and research facilities. Publications highlighting LIPSS-related findings in a wide range of scientific journals indicate a continuous upward trend in the development of surface structuring.
METAMORPHA plans to be represented at this event: more info soon.
Thanks to all the LIMES projects that joined the booth at Photonics Europe in Strasbourg last week! It was a busy event and the booth was in a great location. There was also an important METAMORPHA presentation by Paul Buske from RWTH on the dynamic beam shaping.
