Citation
(2008), "£8 Million to develop new generation of lasers", Assembly Automation, Vol. 28 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/aa.2008.03328dab.002
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2008, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
£8 Million to develop new generation of lasers
Article Type: News From: Assembly Automation, Volume 28, Issue 4
The University of Dundee is leading a team of 18 European partners that have been granted 10.1 m euro (approx £8 m) to develop a new generation of biomedical lasers.
The new lasers will be much smaller and more efficient than current lasers, which are not portable and are heavy on energy consumption. The new lasers will be designed for use in microscopy and nanosurgery, where high-precision cutting, imaging and treatment therapies will be made possible.
The new lasers will mean that surgeons and life scientists will have access to much higher performance and lower cost lasers than are currently available and will open up exciting new application areas for lasers in biomedicine.
The four-year project funded by the European Commission is being lead by Dundee and includes an impressive list of collaborating European partners: Innolume GmbH, the University of Sheffield, Tampere University of Technology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Institut de Ciences Fotoniques Barcelona, The Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas, Alcatel Thales III-V Lab, Vilnius University, M Squared Lasers Limited, Philips Technologie GmbH, Technical University of Darmstadt, TOPTICA Photonics AG, Time-Bandwidth Products AG, Politecnico di Torino, University of Athens, and Molecular Machines and Industries GmbH. Five new research posts will be created in Dundee with the money and nearly 100 man years of effort will be directed towards the world class research throughout the partnership.
Prof Edik Rafailov, of the University of Dundee, says “This project will revolutionise the use of lasers in the biomedical field, providing both practitioners and researchers with pocket sized ultra high-performance lasers at a substantially lower cost which will make their widespread use affordable”.