VOCORDER

EU GRANT Active Project Discreet and continuous monitoring of human health.  VOCORDER objective is to create a tool designed for the discreet and continuous monitoring of human health. This involves the development and implementation of a system that can consistently assess, process, and analyze human breath. The key aim is to detect early indicators of […]

NETHELIX

EU GRANT Active Project Portable multi-gases analyzer based on QCL source NETHELIX project is a visionary undertaking aimed at revolutionizing the mining sector thanks to its real-life settings a toolbox of new technologies for automating and streamlining the extraction process. These technologies will make use of mining and waste deposit processing methods, maximizing efficiency, reducing […]

CONSERWA

EU GRANT Active Project Laser weeding with based on high-power multi-QCL source There is an urgent need to move towards sustainable weed management strategies. Agroecology offers a unique approach & seeks to transform food & agriculture systems, providing long-term solutions. Weeds are expected to become more difficult to reliably control with herbicides under increasing CO2 […]

M3NIR

EU GRANTS Active Projects M3NIR project Integrated, Modular, Multisensing, Mid- and Near- IR sensingplatform M3NIR (Integrated, Modular, Multisensing, Mid- and Near- IR sensingplatform) project with the aim to develop innovative photonics-basedsensing approaches has started on 1 st of January 2023. The internationalconsortium of 13 partners from all over Europe plans to boost significantlysensing technology in terms […]

Tailor-made diets with the NUTRISHIELD project

The NUTRISHIELD project aims at creating a personalised health platform for the young including tailor-made diets based on analysis of a wide range of biomarkers related to nutrition and health disorders. This research, performed in collaboration with Radboud University and the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan, Italy, is part of the EU’s FOOD 2030 research […]

Tumor and Lymph Node on Chip

Alpes Lasers joins project on tumor and lymph node on Chip for cancer studies Alpes Lasers is a partner in the recently-launched Tumor-LN-oC project which proposes the development of a tumor-lymph node-on-chip (Tumor-LN-oC) platform composed of 3D tissue models and microfluidic chips.Using sensitive off-chip proteomic and molecular approaches this platform will allow the identification of novel biomarkers characterizing metastatic cells which […]

Laser Spectroscopy with XT-QCL

A group at the TU Wien and Friedrich-Alexander University, who are partners with Alpes Lasers through the Hydroptics and WaterSpy project, have recently published a paper titled “Polarimetric Balanced Detection: Background-Free Mid-IR Evanescent Field Laser Spectroscopy for Low-Noise, Long-term Stable Chemical Sensing” which uses a QC-XT laser from Alpes Lasers to measure water quality in situ at the Prato water treatment […]

Monitoring Water Quality using QCLs

WaterSpy is a consortium of 10 partners, including Alpes Lasers, funded by Horizon 2020, the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation for 2014-2020 in order to develop water quality analysis photonics technology suitable for inline, field measurements. At the completion of the project in 2020, the WaterSpy module was extensively tested in the labs of partners in Austria, Germany and […]

Hydroptics project kick-off

Neuchâtel (Switzerland). EU funded project “Photonics sensing platform for process optimisation in the oil industry”, in short HYDROPTICS, had its official kick-off meeting on the 5thDecember 2019. The projects goal is to increase the competitiveness of the EU oil industry sector, by providing high-accuracy oil-in-water analyzer based on state of the art mid-IR light sources and […]