Software rules!

SW rules! The Cloud rules. AI rules. I’m impressed by the power and versatility of todays software programs. But guess what: All these amazing gems of creative coding are running on …. HARDWARE. And this hardware has evolved just as much as the software platforms it now enables to run smoothly. And so has the equipment to produce this hardware. The undoubtedly most important component of nowadays equipment to make this hardware has been invented 1960 and continuously improved.

Ultrashortpulse?(USP) lasers are among the leading edge technologies which enable todays chips, sensors, micro-actuators (MEMS), LEDs and micro-medical devices. When I built a UV sub-picosecond laser during my master thesis at IBM in New York in the 90s, its size took up the entire lab and it took 4 hours to get it running every morning. It produced 1mJ pulses and we sucesfully structured fused silica, teflon and other materials. At a rate of 100 pulses per second. Today we have industrial USP lasers which run 10000 times faster, are the size of two crates of german beer and can be operated 24/7 for years. They can produce thousands of holes which are smaller in diameter than their wavelength (thanks to an an invention of Durbin and Eberly in 1987) in less than a second. We can directly structure brittle materials orders of magnitudes faster and less expensive than just a few years ago, without mechanical or chemical steps. Designers and inventors can consider to use materials like glass, SiC, etc. in dimensions, shapes and ways you couldn’t dream about in the past. We have the tools to spatially and temporally shape the laser beams and position them with sub micrometer accuracy at incredible speeds. We need this kind of equipment to make the hardware which can run the software for virtual reality, autonomous driving, artificial intelligence, IOT, animated motion pictures or laser-light shows. Hardware rules? Equipment rules? Let’s bring it all together! Help us to make the software which runs the equipment needed to make the hardware which brings to us the next level of software powered experience!

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E-Mail to Maksymilian Scholl at [email protected].

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