Last year, Lisa Ackermann already published on beam shaping of high-energy lasers for materials processing by using spatial light modulators (SLMs). As she pointed out, a drawback is the presence of speckle noise, which overlays the shaped intensity structure and drastically reduces the beam quality...
Snow, science, and soft skills: At the SAOT Winter Academy, our doctoral candidates learned about the basics of optics and data management. In addition, there was time to explore the wintry foothills of the Alps and Neuschwanstein Castle.
