Ultra-intense & Ultra-fast
laser-matter interaction
Ultra-intense & Ultra-fast
laser-matter interaction
Robin Marjoribanks Group
We’ve been funded by NSERC Strategic Partnerships for Projects for 2016–2019, in a project to advance state-of-the-art ultrashort-pulse laser-materials processing for novel and difficult materials and applications. This is a very well-timed project that needs strong components of applied-physics foundational research in laser-matter interaction, including the plasma physics of burst-mode processing, state-of-the-art fiber laser development, novel kinds of laser control, and advances for many applications from microfluidics to new materials for biomedical implants.
With this new funding, we are looking immediately for high-aptitude ambitious graduate students. The project PI is Robin Marjoribanks, and the other leaders include Professor Lothar Lilge (Dept. Medical Biophysics, Univ. of Toronto, and Princess Margaret Hospital Cancer Care Centre), and Professor Vaughn Betz (Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Univ. of Toronto). It is possible to join the project through those other departments also. The project is in partnership with FiberTech Optica (Kitchener, ON), and Axis Photonique Inc. (Varennes, QC).
This work trades on our established research in burst-mode ultrashort-pulse laser-materials interaction, published and unpublished, as well as our pioneering work in ultrafast-laser burst-mode processing of materials, for which we hold patents in the USA and Canada. Our patents are licensed internationally to IMRA Inc., and to Rofin-Sinar, following their acquisition of the assets of FiLaser LLC. Rofin-Sinar has in turn been acquired (November 2016) by Coherent Inc. (more here...)
Last update : 2016 September
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