Milestones
The HiLASE Centre (acronym for High average power pulsed LASErs) is a scientific research centre of the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences. It was established at the turn of August and September 2011.
In the years that followed, the HiLASE Centre has become an internationally recognised scientific facility, developing a new generation of high-power diode-pumped solid-state lasers that are used for a wide range of high-end industrial applications such as Laser Shock Peening, durability testing of optical components (Laser Induced Damage Threshold) and laser micromachining.
The HiLASE Centre has also set several world records during its ten-year existence.
In the development of advanced lasers and in industrial and scientific applications of lasers, we are already setting the direction and trends in the use of laser technology," says Tomáš Mocek, Head of the HiLASE Centre.
Take a look at the significant milestones of the HiLASE Centre.
Milestones
ATLAS project launch
ATLAS is the first major space-focused project of the HiLASE Centre. Its focus are advanced laser technologies to protect Earth and its orbit, enhance climate monitoring, and drive the future of a circular space economy.
LASER-PRO project launch
A consortium of 18 partners from the Czech Republic, Lithuania, and Ukraine is launching an ambitious project aimed at transforming the European high-tech industry through advanced laser technologies.
Start of collaboration with Lockheed Martin
The HiLASE Center is taking a significant step forward in the development of defense and security laser applications: establishing cooperation with the American company Lockheed Martin, on the IPP Screen and Laser Ablation projects.
HiLASE Laser Training Centre founded
The HiLASE Center launches the Laser Training Center to educate laser operators in areas such as safety, maintenance, and mechanics.
Another world record on the BIVOJ laser
Within the second harmonic frequency, we achieved 515 nm, pulses with an energy of 95 J at a repetition rate of 10 Hz.
The third world record on the BIVOJ laser system
In November, the high energy output from BIVOJ was converted (via second harmonic frequency conversion) to 515 nm wavelength pulses with an energy of more than 68 J at a repetition rate of 10 Hz. This was the world’s highest average power in the category of high energy (>1 J), high average power lasers.
40 401 beams in a laser multi-beam nanostructuring is a new record
The new record in multibeam laser nanostructuring, with respect to the number of laser beams simultaneously modifying the material surface, was reached due to the active scientific cooperation of the HiLASE Centre of the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences with the Israeli company HOLO/OR Ltd.
World record in the speed production of laser-induced periodic nanostructures on stainless steel surface
The Laser Micromachining team led by Peter Hauschwitz, applied a concept of multi beam processing of record speed of 1909 cm2/min to create nanostructures on stainless steel.
Establishment of Brain4Industry
A new innovation centre and Digital Innovation Hub - Brain4Industry, a joint project of the HiLASE Centre, FZU, Institute of Thermomechanics of the CAS, CARDAM, STAR and SIC, is being established in Dolní Břežany.
A new World record for BIVOJ laser
The BIVOJ laser has broken its own performance record that is set in 2016! In a recent test, the system was operated for an hour at a pulse energy in excess of 145 J (with a maximum of 146.5 J) in 10 ns pulses at a repetition rate of 10 Hz at a wavelength of 1030 nm.
World record achieved on the BIVOJ laser
The BIVOJ laser system, a pulsed nanosecond diode-pumped solid-state laser, developed at STFC’s Central Laser Facility, classifies as a powerful kW laser and utilizes a cryogenic cooling technology to achieve high average power output. At the end of 2016, the Czech-British team of scientists amplified laser pulses, with a pulse duration of 10 ns, a wavelength of 1030 nm to an energy of 105 J at a repetition rate of 10 Hz, thus setting a world record for the first kilowatt laser source in a given class of high-energy lasers.
Grand Opening of the HiLASE Centre
On 24 September 2014, a new workplace of the Institute of Physics of the CAS - the HiLASE Centre - was inaugurated in Dolní Břežany in the presence of many distinguished guests and media representatives, such as the President of the CAS Prof. Ing. Jiří Drahoš, DrSc., Cardinal Dominik Duka, Deputy Minister of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic Petra Bartáková, MSc. Ing. Tomáš Novotný, Ph.D.
