High Intensity.
High Efficiency.

We are facing one of the greatest challenges of our time: the unabated high level of energy consumption worldwide is still being offset by massive consumption of fossil fuels and the associated greenhouse gas emissions.

According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), our energy requirements will continue to increase in the coming years. At the same time, the 1.5 degree target in the Paris Climate Agreement stipulates that greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced and global warming limited to well below 2 degrees. A dilemma that is further exacerbated by climate change, rapid population growth and rising incomes.

In the long term, energy from nuclear fusion can make a significant contribution to a clean, green, sustainable and economical energy mix of the future. Fusion power plants can be

and thus make an enormous contribution to Europe’s energy sovereignty.

A number of competing approaches are currently being pursued to realise a fusion power plant. Some of the concepts utilise high-intensity laser pulses to transfer energy into small fuel capsules. Rapid developments in the field of laser technology over the last decade have made scenarios for economically viable fusion power plants more tangible.

Our mission is to take this development in laser technology a step further!

Pulsed Light Technologies will develop various laser systems together with its cooperation partners Marvel Fusion and Focused Energy. The laser systems will support these partners’ respective fusion approaches and de-risk the innovative laser technology required to operate a commercial fusion power plant.

Marvel Fusion’s approach utilizes the interaction of nanostructured materials and ultrashort (femtosecond) pulses to efficiently couple laser energy into the fusion target. The planned laser system is a femtosecond system operating at a frequency of 10 Hz with an efficiency of 10 %, which exceeds existing systems by several orders of magnitude and is urgently needed for a commercially viable energy balance.

Focused Energy plans a fast ignition and requires a high-energy nanosecond pulse to compress the target and an intense short-pulse picosecond laser to accelerate the protons for ignition.