Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT
Technical infrastructure
The technical infrastructure of the institute includes a mechanical and electronic workshop, a metallurgic laboratory, a photographic laboratory, a laboratory for optical metrology as well as a department for design and construction. The net floor area at the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT amounts to 19,500 m².
Equipment
The equipment of the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT is permanently being adapted to the state-of-the-art. At present, essential components are:
Beam Sources
- CO2 lasers up to 12 kW
- Disk lasers up to 12 kW
- Disk lasers with green wavelength up to 2 kW CW and QCW
- Fiber lasers with 1.5 μm and 2 μm wavelength up to 200 W CW
- Experimental lasers with 2 μm / 3 μm wavelength (ns, ps)
- Experimental LIDAR lasers with pulse energies up to 500 mJ
- Single- and multimode fiber lasers up to 6 k
- Diode laser systems up to 12 kW
- Single- and multimode fiber lasers up to 6 kW
- Diode laser systems up to 12 kW
- Multi kW ultrashort pulse lasers
- Frequency-multiplied laser in visible spectral range
- Excimer lasers amongst others with optical line systems
- Broadband tunable lasers
- MIR lasers (ps, ns) with average power > 10 W
- Laser platform for satellite-based LIDAR systems
Plants and Processing Systems
- Three-axis processing stations
- Five-axis gantry systems
- Robot systems including six-axis articutated robot
- Tripod system for the extreme high speed laser material deposition EHLA
- Commercial engineering and laboratory systems for laser powder bed fusion (LPBF)
- Direct-writing and laser-PVD stations
- Various powder and wire feed systems for additive manufacturing
- Printer for sol-gel-hybrid polymers and nano- to microscale dispersions
Special Laboratories
- ISO 5 and ISO 7 clean rooms for assembly and characterization of lasers and laser optics
- Clean rooms for assembly of diode and solid state lasers as well as laser optics
- Life science laboratory with S1 classification
- Battery Lab
- Hydrogen Lab
- Application laboratories for USP applications
Measurement and Sensor Technology
- Devices for process diagnostics
- Laser spectroscopic systems for the chemical analysis of solid, liquid and gaseous materials
- Confocal laser scanning microscopy
- Scanning electron microscope
- Shack Hartmann sensor to characterize laser beams and optics
- Measurement interferometer and autocollimator to analyze laser optics
- Measurement equipment to characterize ultrashort pulse lasers
- Equipment for vibration tests
- Climate chambers for thermal tests with continual monitoring of the optical properties
- Single photon detector (APD) for NIR lasers
- Systems to characterize powder material
- Measuremet system for single quantum detection