Laser stabilization with Machine Learning

Lasers suffer from long-term pointing instabilities due to environmental and other influences. In addition, UV femtosecond pulse beams, as the front-end laser for SwissFEL, damage relatively fast multiple optics in the beam path.

Additive Manufacturing of Glass

The goal of the project was exploring potential routes for AM (Additive Manufacturing) of glass using DLP (Digital Light Processing) Technology.

Practical monitoring over time during optical interference coating production

Investigate factors influencing particle formation and finding practical, industrial methods for eliminating the creation of particles during deposition of optical thin film coatings. Developing robust, easy-to-use, cost effective in-process diagnostic tools and/or software for monitoring the coating processes.

Photonics Sensor Processing Unit

In this project, a novel interrogator will be developped which allows temperature and pressure measurements with fiber Bragg grating sensors at much smaller size than currently available interrogators thanks to the use of a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) in combination with smart evaluation electronics.