Equipment

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.

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