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In 1995 Dr. Róbert Szipõcs - the inventor of chirped mirrors
- and his colleagues at the Research Institute for Solid State
Physics, Budapest, Hungary, and at JATE University, Szeged,
Hungary founded the R&D Lézer-Optika Inc., the predecessor
of the R&D Ultrafast Lasers Ltd. Their aim was to put their
scientific knowledge and experience into practice, and to
develop optical thin film components for high performance,
compact femtosecond laser sources.
Foundation of R&D Lézer-Optika Inc. was preceded by an important
technical innovation in the fields of optical dielectric mirror
coatings and ultrafast lasers in 1993: Dr. Róbert Szipõcs
and his colleagues at the Optical Coating Laboratory of the
Research Institute for Solid State Physics, Budapest, Hungary,
developed special dielectric laser mirrors for femtosecond
laser systems that became known as chirped mirrors.
First demonstrated at the Technical University of Vienna,
Austria, these chirped mirrors were used to build a Kerr-lens
mode-locked Ti: sapphire laser containing no intracavity prism,
and generating optical pulses as short as 11 fs. As a joint
effort of research laboratories all around Europe including
Austria, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland
and United States of America, chirped mirror technology has
matured.
We are developing and selling tunable femtosecond lasers,
femtosecond Optical Parametric Oscillators and we are involved
in research and development of femtosecond laser applications
(two photon microscopy, time resolved spectroscopy).
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The
winner of the the fourth ICO/ICTP Prize the 2003 is Dr. Róbert
Szipõcs of the Research Institute for Solid State Physics
and Optics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest (Hungary).
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