The Innovation Award Laser Technology 2012, initiated by the associations Arbeitskreis Lasertechnik e.V. and the European Laser Institue ELI and provided with 10000 Euros prize money, has been conferred to Dr. Stephan Brüning on May 9, 2012 in Aachen’s town hall. He and his team have applied to the open call for proposals with the innovation „3D micro-structuring of large scale metal surfaces for embossing and printing applications with high power ultrashort pulse-lasers“, which has been developed in a cooperation project “PIKOFLAT” sponsored by BMBF.
In frame work of the cooperation project EdgeWave GmbH developed a high-power InnoSlab-amplifier for ps-laser and created two demonstrators – 100W and 400W, which were supplied to the project partner Schepers for process and system development.
The trophy for the prize winner and the certificates for Dr. Brüning and the rest of the „PIKOFLAT“-Team were handed over by Dipl.-Ing. Ulrich Berners, president of the Arbeitskreis Lasertechnik AKL e.V. and Stepfan Kaierle, president of the European Laser Institute ELI.
The members of the rewarded project team are:
Dr. Stephan Brüning, R&D Laserapplication (team representative), Schepers GmbH & Co KG, Vreden
Dr. Gerald Jenke, R&D Department, SAUERESSIG GmbH + Co. KG, Vreden
Dieter Hüls, R&D Department, SAUERESSIG GmbH + Co. KG, Vreden
Dr. Ralf Knappe, Director of R&D, LUMERA LASER GmbH, Kaiserslautern
Dr. Sergey Naumov, R&D Department, LUMERA LASER GmbH, Kaiserslautern
Dr. Daijun Li, Manager Optic, EdgeWave GmbH, Würselen
Dipl.-Phys. Marco Höfer, Group manager solid state lasers, Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT, Aachen
Dipl.-Phys. Stephan Eifel, Group micro and nano structuring, Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT, Aachen
Dr. Arnold Gillner, Competence area manager ablation and joining, Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT, Aachen
