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Innovation Award for FemtoLux 50
EKSPLA’s industrial femtosecond laser FemtoLux 50 nominated for Innovation Award

Cooling causes roughly half of industrial laser failures, so EKSPLA’s FemtoLux 50 drops the water chiller. Its 50 W femtosecond output and waterless cooling earned a finalist spot at the Laser World of Photonics Innovation Award.

May 20, 2025
Femtosecond industrial laser FemtoLux with harmonics module
Advance in microlens fabrication with FemtoLux

Femtosecond or picosecond for cutting microlenses into fused silica? Lithuanian researchers put EKSPLA’s FemtoLux to the test, and the femtosecond pulses won on resolution and surface finish.

April 18, 2025
Ekspla boosts micromachining capabilities with FemtoLux 50

67% more power in the same footprint. EKSPLA’s FemtoLux 50 lifts femtosecond micromachining to 50 W at 1030 nm, with burst modes, pulse-on-demand control, and integrated waterless cooling in place of a chiller.

March 28, 2025
EKSPLA’s employees – among the Lithuanian Science Prize winners

The lasers behind Europe’s extreme-light labs started here. EKSPLA’s Andrejus Michailovas and Jonas Adamonis share the Lithuanian Science Prize for 15 years of work on the high-power OPCPA sources behind the SYLOS systems.

March 4, 2025
EKSPLA’s chief scientist – in the Photonics100 2025 list

Thirty years of ideas, co-authorship of 23 inventions, and decades mentoring the next generation. EKSPLA co-founder Dr. Andrejus Michailovas has been named to Electro Optics’ 2025 Photonics100 list.

October 29, 2024
We celebrate the Day of Photonics

No photonics, no selfies, no internet. On the Day of Photonics, EKSPLA traces the photon from Gilbert Lewis’s 1926 coinage to the lasers and optical fibers that wired the modern world.

October 21, 2024
Nitinol stent cutting.
New Material Processing Applications Now Available on Ekspla Website

Glass, metal, ceramics, and polymers, all machined with one industrial laser. EKSPLA has added a fresh batch of FemtoLux material-processing samples that show what GHz and MHz+GHz burst modes make possible.

September 17, 2024
Project EKSPLA Inside has launched
Project ‘EKSPLA Inside’ has launched

EKSPLA’s lasers already sit inside stent cutters, phone-glass machines, and cancer-research scanners. The EU-funded EKSPLA Inside project aims to place them inside many more OEM systems worldwide.

April 25, 2024
EKSPLA Appoints Elite Alliance Corp., Ltd. as Representative in Taiwan
EKSPLA Appoints Elite Alliance Corp., Ltd. as Representative in Taiwan

EKSPLA has spent nearly two decades in the Taiwanese market. Now Elite Alliance Corp. takes over as its local representative, handling sales and service for the full EKSPLA laser range.

April 11, 2024