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From September 15 to 19, 2024, the 13th CIRP Conference on Photonic Technologies took place in the Stadthalle Fürth. This year we celebrated a very special event - LANE turned 30 years old. In this anniversary year, around 350 participants from all over the world gathered again to discuss the la...

At the beginning of December 2023, our Photonic Medical Technology group organized the workshop "Optical Sensing in Turbid Media". The event took place at the Novotel Erlangen. Renowned experts from the fields of Random Laser, Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS), Light Tissue Interaction and...

The research focus of Sebastian-Paul Kopp is laser-based 3D printing from polymer powders.  He uses a technique similar to a common laser printer to individually deposit the powder onto the laser bed. In his subsequent work, he successfully adapted his setup to 3D-print custom-made medication. As...

The doors of the Stadthalle Fürth in the metropolitan region of Erlangen-Nuremberg opened for the 12th CIRP Conference on Photonic Technologies from September 4th to 8th to offer scientists from over 20 countries the opportunity to discuss the latest research results and the potential of photonic te...

As a non-contact and highly automatable joining process, laser beam welding has been constantly gaining importance in industrial manufacturing applications. One of the greatest challenges is the formation of solidification cracks in the weld seam during the welding process. Solidification cracks can...

The Special Issue on Laser-based Additive Manufacturing: Processes and Materials is complete and available online on ScienceDirect. With permission of ScienceDirect we happily provide Share Links that will allow free access to the articles of the Special Issue until 3 May 2021. For your convenience...

As part of the Major Instrumentation Initiatives by the German Research Foundation (DFG) the Institute of Photonic Technologies at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg was granted funding for a Direct Energy Deposition (DED-LB/M) machine. The submitted concept surpasses commercially available system technology wi...

The 11th CIRP Conference on Photonic Technologies - LANE 2020, organized by Bayerisches Laserzentrum GmbH and the Institute for Photonic Technologies, took place from September 7th to 10th, 2020. For the first time in its history of almost three decades, this year's LANE was held virtually due to cu...

In March, “LEF 2020 – 23rd seminar on lasers in electronics production and precision engineering” took place at the Stadthalle Fürth. The event was organized by the Bayerisches Laserzentrum in collaboration with the Institute of Photonic Technologies. Based on a diversified lecture program, the par...

On March 10 and 11, 2020 the Bayerisches Laserzentrum and the Institute of Photonic Technologies cordially invite all interested persons to LEF 2020 – 23rd seminar on lasers in electronics production and precision engineering, the meeting place for economy and science, at the Stadthalle of Fürth. A...