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Video of the ITN-GREAT Project:

welcome to this introduction video to the great innovation training network great stands for grating reflectors enabled laser applications and training this innovation training network is supported by the eu research framework program horizon 2020 the heart of the project crate are grating waveguide structures which will be presented later in the video the project great is organized by a consortium of renowned scientific institutions there are 16 partners from both academic and private sectors situated in several countries across europe finland france germany and the united kingdom so what is a grating webcast structure and why is it so interesting a grating wave constructor is a combination of a planar waveguide and a subway length grading if the parameters of the waveguide and the grating are designed properly the resulting resonance can be much more efficient than devices based on gratings only creating waveguide structures are known to be a powerful tool to control the spectral spatial and polarization properties of the laser beams the target of great is to produce devices that can be implemented for industry driven laser applications including pulse compression spectral stabilization and wavelength multiplexing and the manipulation of radial and azimuthal polarization each application aims at a specific range of wavelength the performances targeted by great are beyond the current state of the art in terms of minimization of loss and damage threshold to achieve this objective the consortium received funding to recruit 15 early-stage researchers esl for short each esr was assigned a specific task in the project the development chain for creating vegas structures is divided into four parts it starts with the conceptualization through modeling and design this is the work of esl one the final designs are provided to esr 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 and 9 who are all in charge of the fabrication some of them are involved in the lay of the position while the others focus on etching forces the samples are then characterized by eso 1 and 10. esr10 performs laser damage tests and esr1 carries out the m-line spectroscopy finally esr 11 12 13 14 and 15 implement the samples in real life laser setups to evaluate the performances if the grating waveguide structure do not behave as expected feedback will be sent to sa1 to modify the design accordingly now let's have a look at the different project partners and where each asr is located the university of stuttgart is hosting four esls esr1 12 and 13 are part of ifsw sr8 is part of itu esr3 is working at amu a german company specialized in nano-fabrication the laser company coherent d-last in germany is employing esr-15 esr-2 is enrolled at la paratus uber curia in france esr 6 and 10 are both hosted by institut rene in marseilles sr11 is doing his project in the technological center alfanov near bordeaux while esr14 is doing it in the laboratory under material dakiten esr4 and 5 are members of the university of eastern finland finally 7 and 9 are working at the opto electronics research center which is part of the university of southampton one fundamental objective of the great innovation training network is to train a cohort of young researchers and turn them into highly skilled specialists as a part of this process several training sessions were and will be organized by the construction on topics related to the project or career development each esr must also complete several sentiments in partner institutions second months give the opportunity to use equipment from the host institution that is not available in the original institution of the esr a future video will focus on second months and workshops thank you for watching this video if you would like more information about great don't hesitate to visit our website or directly contact us