ANNOUNCEMENT OF A
COMPETITIVE CALL FOR
ADDITIONAL PROJECT PARTNERS
Project acronym: LASHARE
Project grant agreement number: 609046
Project full name: Laser Equipment Assessment
for High Impact Innovation in the Manufacturing
European industry
The project LASHARE is currently active in the Seventh
Framework programme of the European Community
for research, technological development and
demonstration activities contributing to the creation
of the European research area and to innovation
(2007-2013). LASHARE requires the participation of
new partners to carry out certain tasks within the
project. Please note that the Seventh Framework
programme offers part-funding not full-funding of
research activities. LASHARE has a vacancy in its
consortium for partners established in an EU Member
State or FP7 Associated State.
LASHARE aims to advance innovative equipment
solutions that have been demonstrated at laboratory
level, Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 3-4, towards
robust prototypes at TRL 7-8. The development is
guided by an Assessment Framework that involves an
industrial user, an RTD partner and the supplier of the
equipment. The laser based equipment assessment
(LEA) should focus on the benefit of the supplier
which should be an SME. The role of the users is to
provide guidance towards requirements and provide
the basis for validation.
All assessments shall be related to equipment for
laser-based material processing. Suppliers of
innovative high-tech equipment are expected to
install and assess their prototypes or products in
production-like environments and validate them in a
manufacturing line or in an industrial environment
that is very close to manufacturing conditions. The
primary aim is to strengthen the ICT equipment
supplier base, predominantly SMEs, through a close
cooperation with globally acting manufacturers, by
improving the manufacturing processes in relation to
quality, speed, environmental and resource efficiency.
The LEAs shall cover innovative laser applications in
laser-based material processing and address
improvements related to quality, speed, flexibility and
resource efficiency of laser-based material processing.
The project aims to select between 10 and 12 new
LEAs for funding in this competitive call. Each of the
LEA teams will consist of a user, a supplier and an
RTD partner. The RTD partner must be one of the
existing LASHARE RTD partners.
The core task of the laser-based equipment
assessment shall focus on sensors and knowledge
based ICT systems that enable at least one of the
following aspects:
• autonomous set up of machine and laser
parameters for fast and flexible manufacture
• process and quality control for robust processes and
fully documented production
in the area of complex manufacturing tasks.
LASHARE is also calling for experts to evaluate
proposals. If you would like to be considered
please visit
www.lashare.eu
Opening:
1 February 2014
Deadline: 16 March at 17h00
Expected duration of participation:
24 months
Duration of an assessment: max. 22 months
Funding: Total funding available for new partners
amounts to 1,767,000 €; the requested funding
for each LEA should not exceed 250,000 €
Call identifier: LASHARE Competitive Call 1
Language of submission: English
Email address: cc@lashare.eu
Web address for further information:
www.lashare.eu
InGaAs
Photodiodes
• TO-style packages available with flat AR-coated windows,
ball lens, and dome lens
• Active diameters from 50 µm to 5 mm
• Analog bandwidth to 8 GHz
• Standard and custom ceramic submounts available
• FC, SC, and ST receptacles
• Standard axial pigtail package and new miniature ceramic pigtail packages, all available with low back-reflection fiber
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However, most consumers are limited to commercial options and can find
themselves performing up to three separate measurements, varying instrument
parameters like SBW, detector changeover
λ, interval step-size, integration time, and
rear beam configuration in order to analyze distinct features of filter performance.
The future of high-performance
filter measurement
You can imagine that measuring a steep
fluorescence bandpass filter, with <1%
transitions at either side of the passband
and extended OD6 blocking over the
entire visible range, is difficult. Ultra-narrow filters are even more problematic. These filters have bandwidths < 1 nm,
which really test an instrument’s resolu-
tion capabilities. As design progresses
further, measurement will become in-
creasingly more challenging.
Today, optical filters permeate many
industries with a diverse range of
applications. Not every customer has
the luxury to have an optics expert on
their staff available to test and evaluate
procured components. It’s customary for
the filter vendor to provide a performance
curve, but it’s helpful if the customer is
equipped to interpret data they receive
and associate results with known mea-
surement limitations.
Most filter-focused companies can
manufacture filters to much tighter specifications than even they can confirm. The
marketplace demand for filters, in turn,
needs to drive the technology to enable
more credible measurement in high-performance regimes: the next breakthrough
required to really push the boundaries
of optical filter technology.
Amber Czajkowski is a thin film engineer
and Stephan Briggs is a biomedical engineer at Edmund Optics, Barrington, NJ;
email: aczajkowski@edmundoptics.com and
sbriggs@edmundoptics.com; www.
edmundoptics.com.
