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News from the Institut für Strahlwerkzeuge (IFSW)

All news in the overview

Here you can find all reports of the Institut für Strahlwerkzeuge (IFSW) in chronological order.

September 2021

X-ray imaging of laser materials processing at the German Electron Synchrotron

August 2021

Corona graduate program of the ICM successfully launched

July 2021

The society of the former doctoral candidates of the IFSW awards price for the best master thesis

TryScience workshop "Laser - the tool of the future"

New research project ADDSUB starting in summer 2021

April 2021

Junior Research Group Advanced Manufacturing started

March 2021

Corona graduate program within the framework of the ICM

February 2021

Web conference: Photonics as an innovation driver in Baden-Württemberg

Girls' Day on 22th April 2021

October 2020

European research project TresClean successfully completed

New record in average power of ultrafast lasers with emission in the visible spectral range

Internet presence of the InnovationCampus Future Mobility (ICM)

September 2020

IFSW employee Dr. Christian Hagenlocher was awarded with the WLT Prize 2020

May 2020

Announcement of a new W3 professorship

February 2020

University publication prize awarded

November 2019

SPECTARIS Forum Photonics 4.0: Experts dared to look ahead

October 2019

Project "StrahlClosedLoop" started

September 2019

New IFSW internet presence

July 2019

The IFSW has achieved another important milestone in the HIPERDIAS project

June 2019

World's first mass flambé of Crème Brûlée with a CO2 laser

April 2019

The IFSW has achieved an important milestone in the HIPERDIAS project

Network meeting of "Women in Photonics" at the IFSW

March 2019

Presentation of LightPulse LASER PRECISION

December 2018

World’s first application of a thin-disk laser for melting raclette cheese

November 2018

Thermally induced focal shift in laser optics

August 2018

New publications on heat accumulation during ultra-short pulsed laser processing

Transfer of a high-speed streak camera to the Deutsches Museum in Munich

May 2018

Day of Science on 30 June 2018

March 2018

Highly Efficient kW-Class Thin-Disk Laser with Radial Polarization

First Demonstration of Mode-Locked and Radially-Polarized Thin-Disk Laser

High-speed shadowgraphy generates process understanding of the ablation process with burst pulses

December 2017

Bicycle boxes enthusiastically accepted

Electrolytic etching and polishing at the metallography department

August 2017

Controlled and Automated Laser Ablation Enables Reliable Manufacturing of Precise Parts

April 2017

Thin-disk multipass amplifier for ultrafast laser pulses

The society of the former doctoral candidates of the IFSW awards price for the best master thesis

First demonstration of Ti:sapphire thin-disk oscillator

Modernization of the control of the Kugler-Microbase processing station

March 2017

Flow speed of the ablation vapors during laser drilling of CFRP

January 2017

Foundation of MarTec Photonics

December 2016

Surface functionalization of stainless steel by laser material processing

November 2016

Record Efficiency with a kW-Class CW Frequency-Doubled Thin-disk Laser

June 2016

Day of Science on 18 June 2016

April 2016

SESAM-modelocked thin-disk lasers

New Ultrafast Laser Record: 1.9 kW of Average Power

February 2016

New H2020 project for sub-ps kW-class thin-disk lasers

January 2016

Volkher Onuseit heads the new department of „System Engineering“

Record „green“ thin-disk laser: 400W of output power

December 2015

Thin-disk multipass amplifier enables record output powers

Multi-pass thin-disk laser amplifier generates record output powers

September 2015

New staff member for Public Relations and Marketing

Heat accumulation effects define the process window for laser cutting of CFRP

April 2015

Good Quality at High Productivity

March 2015

The Threshold for Deep-Penetration Laser Welding Revisited

Welding of Copper with 16 kW of Laser Power – The Dancing Capillary

New edition of the book "Laser - Grundlagen der Laserstrahlerzeugung"

October 2014

More funding for community industrial research

April 2014

Supermicrofibers Produced with Laser-Drilled Spinnerets at the Hannover Fair 2014

March 2014

Quantum Leap in Laser-Based Micro Materials Processing

New edition of the book "Laser in der Fertigung"

February 2014

First dielectric Thin-Disk Laser With Direct Emission in the Visible Spectral Range

January 2014

Broadband Pulse Compressor Gratings

December 2013

How black is CFRP?

November 2013

New Thin-Disk Laser Record: 1.1 kW, 1.4 mJ / 7 ps, 800 kHz, M2 < 1.25

October 2013

Thin Disk Laser wins major EU support

June 2013

Amplification of cylindrically polarized laser beams in single crystal fibers

March 2013

Competent Distributor for the Thin-Disk Laser Modules in Japan

February 2013

Prof. Graf elected new vice rector for knowledge and technology transfer

January 2013

Proton size puzzle reinforced!

October 2012

New Thin-Disk Laser Record: 815 W, M2 < 1.4

Breakthrough Grating-Waveguide-Structures

First Demonstration of an Ultrafast Yb:SSO Thin-Disk Laser

Extended model for hot crack formation wins the ICALEO Student Paper Award Contest

September 2012

3rd Berthold Leibinger Innovation Prize 2012 won

August 2012

Excellent Survey of the SLT 2012

UKP Yb:CAlGO thin-disk laser brought into use

July 2012

Lecture Qualification of Dr. Abdou Ahmed

June 2012

Real-Time Laser Welding Control Wins the Steel Innovation Award

New Thin-Disk Laser Record: 750 W, M² = 1.5, ηopt = 58%

The World´s Thinnest Cellulose Supermicrofibers

March 2012

250 W single crystal fiber Yb:YAG laser

Narrow line width thin-disk laser with high polarization purity

New Gratings for Intra-Cavity Generation of Azimuthal Polarisation

January 2012

First Demonstration of a Yb:Sc2SiO5 Thin-Disk Laser

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