The Glory of Laser and the Odyssey of "Deep Technology"

The British engineering and construction company Metz Group has a delegation in Spain to be responsible for the expansion and renovation of the central laser facility at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford. More commonly, the construction of the powerful laser Vulcan 20-20 has just been obtained, with a delivery date of 2029.

It will emit a main excitation beam that is billions of times larger than the strongest sunlight. Rob Clarke, the head of the CLF Experimental Science Group, invited us to imagine 500 million standard 40W light bulbs and compress all of this light to one tenth the size of human hair in a fraction of a second.

Mes will be responsible for building two seven meter high shelters with walls as thick as two meters, and he will use a specialized concrete mixture that can resist radiation. Vulcan 20-20 is expected to help search for new materials, such as boron nitride, which is harder than diamond, and promote nuclear fusion.

This work will be in line with the work of the most powerful laser Zeus in the United States in a short period of time, although its power is much lower, only three to five watts, and it will be ready faster. The construction industry is once again forming an alliance with cutting-edge science and technology, which Spanish public works companies can certainly boast about.

Decades ago, the European Center for Nuclear Research and the Spanish construction company Dragados recently merged with ACS to showcase an underground cave in Geneva, which will house laboratories where the mysteries of the universe will be studied. What happens next is wonderful.

But not all industries can say that, not all industries have an industry in Spain to achieve their innovation. CSIC scientist Margarita Delvar often recalls that although Spanish laboratories are working hard to unravel the mystery of the coronavirus, the reality in our country is that there is no industry equipped with technology for producing human vaccines, just like a disease, which is a clear limiting factor.

A few days ago, an entrepreneur in the field of life sciences was preparing to produce a health testing and monitoring device. He reprinted this poem: Texas Instruments and two other foreign partners were his forced companies.

Working in the field of deep technology in Spain, especially when you have to sit at a notary office to receive university transfer services, is still an adventurous sport. Oscar Sala and Pol Hortar are two benchmarks of our country's commitment to innovators, who recently left the model project "Collider" created by the world's mobile capital Barcelona.

We need an industrial structure that can provide assistance to innovators working at the forefront of technology, similar to the assistance provided for the construction of large-scale public science infrastructure.

The Valencia Institute of Technology's photonics team led by Jose Cappmani and the company iPronics, which he co promoted with Inaki Berengar, have just released an extraordinary paper. Their goal is to build a universal photon processor that can utilize the unique characteristics of light in next-generation 5G/6G systems, autonomous driving, and aerospace applications. This is an analogy.

Europe has just approved the Lasers4EU project, which will begin operation on October 1, 2024. In the previous decade, Europe has successfully coordinated its research center around Laserlab Europe. Its initiators have already documented the achievements and pending achievements in the interesting report "European Laser Science and Technology Landscape and Roadmap".

In Europe, obtaining laser research infrastructure still has a strong training component. In fact, more than half of Laserlab Europe users are under the age of 37, and only a similar proportion of facilities are those that open their doors to industrial and medical centers. Supply and demand issues.

In China, the Pulse Laser Center in Salamanca, the Ultra Fast Laser Center in Madrid, and the Institute of Photonics in Barcelona have all participated in this European initiative. Each research center responded to a survey. They realize that the opportunities to obtain their activities are related to the availability of financing, and beyond the excellence of the project, this is reality.

The European laser will depend on its ability to explore new applications, ensure the safety of the raw material supply chain, as well as its material processing and recycling capabilities, especially compared to China. This may require the return of related industries, such as beryllium ceramics or selenium doped crystals, which are no longer produced in Europe.

By the way, the Joint Research Center of the European Commission in Seville has just released a devastating report on the interdependence of five strategic sectors: renewable energy, electric vehicles, energy intensive industries, digital and aerospace, and defense.

A single pulse of Vulcan 20-20 will generate six times more energy than the energy generated globally, but its duration is less than one trillionth of a second, and its target measurement value is only a few micrometers. "Twice the radiance can last for half the time, and you have already shone a lot, Roy," Elden Tillier said to the replicants in Blade Runner. While shining, it is also necessary to promote cutting-edge industries that collaborate with innovators.

Source: Laser Net