Abstract: A target (10) for triggering nuclear fusion reactions non-thermally includes a plurality of aligned nano-rods (12) of a first nuclear fusion fuel material, and an interspace between the nano-rods filled with a second nuclear fusion fuel material. The first and second nuclear fusion fuel materials are different from each other. In some embodiments, the nuclei of the first nuclear fusion fuel material have a first atomic number and nuclei of the second nuclear fusion fuel material have a second atomic number, wherein the first atomic number is higher than the second atomic number. A system for producing neutronic and aneutronic fusion energy by a neutronic and/or aneutronic nuclear fusion reaction includes a target (10) and a laser device for emitting a laser pulse that can at least partially be absorbed by the target (10).

Abstract: A radiotherapy system comprising at least one pulsed radiation source, at least one imaging system, a control system, and a synchronization system is disclosed. The pulsed radiation source deposits high dose radiation pulses to a target region inside the patient; simultaneously the imaging system is used to monitor the target region, synchronized by the synchronization system. The dose per radiation pulse is high enough to deposit, within few pulses, 1 Gy at a depth of at least 1 cm in water. At each irradiation time step, the pulsed radiation source delivers short pulses of radiation (<1 ms) and the imaging system performs a snapshot of the position, and eventually the shape, of the target region during the irradiation time, with a time resolution better than 200 ms. Being both the pulsed radiation source and imaging system synchronized by the synchronization system with less than 200 ms jitter, this system allows for very precise reconstruction of the map of the dose deposited into the target region.

Abstract: A radiotherapy system comprising at least one pulsed radiation source, at least one imaging system, a control system, and a synchronization system is disclosed. The pulsed radiation source deposits high dose radiation pulses to a target region inside the patient; simultaneously the imaging system is used to monitor the target region, synchronized by the synchronization system. The dose per radiation pulse is high enough to deposit, within few pulses, 1 Gy at a depth of at least 1 cm in water. At each irradiation time step, the pulsed radiation source delivers short pulses of radiation (<1 ms) and the imaging system performs a snapshot of the position, and eventually the shape, of the target region during the irradiation time, with a time resolution better than 200 ms. Being both the pulsed radiation source and imaging system synchronized by the synchronization system with less than 200 ms jitter, this system allows for very precise reconstruction of the map of the dose deposited into the target region.

Abstract: The invention involves a device and a procedure for refractive laser surgery on a target object. With the aid of a laser beam source, an fs-impulse laser beam is generated. A second laser beam source generates a UV laser beam. A shared scanner device utilises the fs-impulse laser beam and the UV laser beam for the scanning of the target object.

Abstract: The invention involves a device and a procedure for refractive laser surgery on a target object. With the aid of a laser beam source, an fs-impulse laser beam is generated. A second laser beam source generates a UV laser beam. A shared scanner device utilises the fs-impulse laser beam and the UV laser beam for the scanning of the target object.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus comprising an illumination device adapted for illuminating a movable object during at least two timely spaced time intervals, an image sensor device adapted to capture an image of the movable object, and a control unit adapted for coordinating the illumination device and the image sensor device in a manner that the image sensor device captures the image of the illuminated movable object during the at least two timely spaced time intervals and that the image sensor device is deactivated during at least a portion of the time distance between the at least two timely spaced time intervals.

Abstract: The invention involves a device and a procedure for refractive laser surgery on a target object. With the aid of a laser beam source, an fs-impulse laser beam is generated. A second laser beam source generates a UV laser beam. A shared scanner device utilizes the fs-impulse laser beam and the UV laser beam for the scanning of the target object.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for treating an organic material, in particular a biological material, in which the organic material is irradiated with laser light in the form of ultrashort pulses at a defined energy input, which pulses are adjusted with regard to a respective pulse length and pulse energy for the organic material such that an energy density of from around 100 mJ/cm2 to around 100 J/cm2 is created, wherein at least two pulses or a pulse sequence are irradiated consecutively onto a surface of the organic material and wherein a time interval between a preceding pulse/pulse sequence and a following pulse/pulse sequence is less than or equal to picoseconds, and the following pulse/pulse sequence hits the organic material again where the change effected by means of the preceding pulse/pulse sequence has taken place, with the result that a permanent change in the organic material is created.

Abstract: The invention involves a device and a procedure for refractive laser surgery on a target object. With the aid of a laser beam source, an fs-impulse laser beam is generated. A second laser beam source generates a UV laser beam. A shared scanner device utilises the fs-impulse laser beam and the UV laser beam for the scanning of the target object.