HEPTech Academia Meets Industry on Industrial Applications of High Energy Lasers

4 Mar 2015, 09:00 → 5 Mar 2015, 17:00 Europe/Zurich

HiLASE

Wednesday 4 March

Registration and Welcome Lunch

1 Welcome Address

Speaker: Dr T. Mocek (Scientific Coordinator of HiLASE)

2 Opening Remarks

Speaker: Ales Hala (Institute of Physics)

3 HEPTech and HiLASE

Speaker: Ian Tracey (HEPTech Coordinator)

Laser Shock Peening

4 Integrated Modelling/Diagnosis/Testing Methodology in LSP Process Development for the Improvement of Fatigue Life of Metallic Components

Speaker: Prof. Jose Luis Ocana (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid)

5 Laser Shock Peening Technology Development for Airframe Structures: a South African Initiative

Speaker: Dr Claudia Polese (Johannesburg University)

6 Smart Surface Technology Development for Aerospace, Industrial and Biomedical Systems

Speaker: Dr Mannava S.R. (Cincinnati University)

7 Laser shot-peening for wear protection of laser hardened steam turbine blades

Speaker: Dr Steffen Bonss ((Fraunhofer, Dresden))

15:30 Coffee and Networking break

Laser applications in industry: Successful stories and limitations

8 Laser shock peening: Successful stories and requirements for application in aeronautics

Speaker: Dr Ulrike Heckenberger (Airbus Operations GmbH)

9 Comau Laser Solutions and Trends in Automotive

Speaker: Magnano Nunzio (Comau S.p.A., Italy)

10 Technology Transfer: the impact, adoption and uptake of Laser based Production Processes

Speaker: Louise Jones (KTN)

Round Table: Laser Shock Peening

19:00 Dinner

Thursday 5 March

Welcome Coffee and HiLASE Laboratory

Laser Induced Damage Threshold: State of the Art

11 A new generation of diode pump sources opens the way to high-performance but cost-efficient DPSSL's

Speaker: Ragnar Boedefeld ((Lastronics Jena, Germany))

12 Laser damage resistance of optical components: limitations and improvement of damage threshold.

Speaker: Dr Gallais Laurent (L’Institut Fresnel, Unité Mixte de Recherche)

10:30 Coffee Break

13 Laser damage measurements at HiLASE

Speaker: Dr Jan Vanda (HiLASE)

14 LIDT studies for the design of meter-scale high-reflective coatings for ultra-fast high power laser systems

Speaker: Dr Adrien Hervy (REOSC)

12:00 Lunch

Impact of Research in Industry

15 Influence of one Research centre to local industry

Speaker: Prof. G. Račiukaitis (University of Vilnius)

16 Technology transfer in optics and laser: How to turn photons into gold

Speaker: Dr Arnaud Zoubir (AlphaNov)

17 Round Table - Networking and consortiums for Horizon 2020