A path to compact, robust sources for ultrashort laser
pulses
Laser researchers in Munich are challenging a basic
assumption of engineering: "You can't have it all." They have shown
that for certain kinds of laser applications in biomedical imaging, material
processing, and communications, a new approach could deliver the desired
capabilities with no problematic tradeoffs:
in compact, inexpensive, efficient and long-lived devices that produce
ultrashort, high-energy light pulses. This research is a close collaboration
between members of the Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
Department at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) and the Physics
Department of LMU Munich.