We are pleased to announce and invite you to one of our weekly online zoom events.
 

Space-grade fs mode-locked laser at 2.5 GHz and 1550 nm: results and applications

Ultrafast lasers are key tools for micromachining and medical applications, but also in a growing numbers of domains like telecoms, aerospace and microwave photonics, which are currently limited by the lack of reliability of the lasers and the achievable repetition rate. Menhir Photonics has now successfully demonstrated and deployed real-turnkey ultrafast laser oscillators at 1.5 um and GHz repetition rate with an unprecedent robustness. Reaching now up to 2.5 GHz of fundamental repetition rate and the lowest phase noise and timing jitter on the market, the MENHIR-1550 was already qualified for Space. The latest development of the MENHIR-1550 at 2.5 GHz will be presented (first commercial product of its kind) as well as the newest applications that it enabled worldwide, in the fields of green-house gases monitoring from Space, very fast dual-comb spectroscopy or photonics analog-to-digital converter.

Speaker

Dr. Florian Emaury
Dr. Florian Emaury is the CEO and co-founder of Menhir Photonics AG (Glattbrugg, Switzerland), a company focusing on manufacturing low-noise gigahertz ultrafast lasers for applications bringing together the field of photonics and electronics. After graduating in 2010 from the Institute d’Optique Graduate School in Paris (MSc in Photonics/Physics), his career started with engineer experiences in Fianium (UK) and Coherent (CA, USA) before joining ETH Zürich to obtain a PhD in Physics in 2015 in the group of Prof. Ursula Keller. Since then, Florian is devoting to create business opportunities with femtosecond lasers. In May 2018, Florian co-founded Menhir Photonics to offer reliable and turnkey ultrafast lasers to its users.

Moderator

Dr. Christian Bosshard, Managing director Swissphotonics
Dr. Christian Bosshard received his degree in Physics (1986) and his doctorate (1991, Silver medal award) from ETH. From 2001-2021 he was working at CSEM, first as Section Head and then as Vice President and Head Photonics. Since 2013 he is Managing Director of Swissphotonics. Christian is a Fellow of Optica, Board Member of EPIC, and Member of the Board of the University of Basel.

Date
Tuesday, 3 May 2022

Time
12:00 - 12:45

Software
Zoom

Costs
free of charge

Registration only necessary once
This event series requires registration (see link above). We will send you the access information (Zoom-link and ID) by email after the registration. As the Zoom link remains the same every week, you do not need to register again for the following meetings.

Deadline for registration
2 May 2022, 12.00 am

Contact
Dr. Florian Emaury
CEO Menhir Photonics AG

Contact Swissphotonics
Dr. Christian Bosshard
Managing Director Swissphotonics
+41 79 405 18 26

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