Scientific publications

Environmental testing of high-quality Alexandrite crystals and coatings for space applications

Presentation at SPIE LASE 2023 (28 January – 2 February 2023). View the presentation here.

High-performance cavity-dumped Q-switched Alexandrite laser CW diode-pumped in double-pass configuration

Opt. Express 31, 1112-1124 (2023) Read the paper here.

Highly efficient cavity-dumped Q-switched Alexandrite laser

Presentation at EUROPHOTON 2022 (28 August – 2 September 2022). Read the paper in the EPJ Web of Conference.

Investigation of advanced optical coating influence on the properties of Alexandrite laser crystals.

Poster Presentation at Optical Interference Coating (19–24 June 2022). Access the paper here.

Development of alexandrite laser crystal treatment prior to coating deposition for high power space applications

Poster presentation at the SPIE Laser Damage 2021 (12-15 October 2021). View the poster here.

Development of alexandrite laser crystal treatment prior to coating deposition for high power space applications

Video presentation at the SPIE Optical Systems Design Digital Forum 2021 (13-17 September 2021). View the presentation here.

GALACTIC – High Performance Alexandrite Crystals and Coatings for High Power Space Applications

Poster presentation at the International Conference on Space Optics (30 March – 02 April 2021). Check out the graphical abstract below and read the paper here.

GALACTIC has now published the proceedings paper on “High performance Alexandrite crystals and coatings for high power space applications”. This graphical abstract illustrates the content.

GALACTIC: High performance alexandrite crystals and coatings for high power space applications

Poster presentation at the SPIE Photonics West 2021 Digital Forum (06 – 11 March 2021). Read the paper in the SPIE Digital Library.

Alexandrite laser crystal treatment and coatings for high LIDT space applications

Presentation at the SPIE Laser Damage Digital Forum (15-18 September 2020). View the poster and presentation here.

Other publications

Video: How Alexandrite laser crystals make it possible to monitor vegetation health

Infographic: Small crystal, huge impact: Alexandrite laser crystals

How Alexandrite laser crystals may help Europe to improve Earth observation.

Dissemination plan

The Dissemination Plan describes the planned strategic and measurable dissemination efforts to maximize the impact of the GALACTIC project. View the Dissemination Plan here.