Going Greener
LASER COMPONENTS Germany has formed a group of employees who are intensively involved in environmental and sustainability issues. For example, employees are being encouraged to switch from cars to bicycles. The first highlight was employee participation in the “Stadtradeln” (cycling city) campaign. Over the course of three weeks, a team of twenty-four colleagues covered a total of 4,748 km and came in fourth place in the Olching competition. If they had traveled the same distance by car, this would have corresponded to 698 kg of CO2 emissions.
R&D Presents Research Results
The SPIE Laser Damage conference was held this year for the first time as a digital forum. At the conference, Dr. Sina Malobabic, a developmental engineer, presented the results of the PluTO+ project: Using a multipole resonance probe developed at the Ruhr University of Bochum, research partners were able to measure plasma fluctuations in coating systems and take them into account in the coating process. This opens up new possibilities for process optimization.
Detector Competence
Davorin Babić, Ph.D., head of the development team in Arizona, attracted great interest at the hybrid MIPRO conference with his presentation on infrared quantum detectors. He presented the functional principles and performance characteristics of four types of IR quantum detectors: silicon APDs, InGaAs APDs, lead salt detectors, and unipolar T2SL barrier detectors, which are currently mainly used in research.
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