EKSPLA’s employees voted to give €25,000 of their own bonuses to Ukraine’s defence. The company matched it, turning the gift into €50,000 for the RADAROM! campaign’s soldier protection packs.

Lithuania leads Europe with 64% of its science and tech workforce being women. For the Day of Women and Girls in Science, two EKSPLA specialists, an optics technologist and an electronics assembler, share how they got there.

Often called the Oscar of photonics, the SPIE Prism Award went to EKSPLA’s FemtoLux 30 in 2024. The win honors an ultrafast industrial laser known for GHz burst flexibility and a maintenance-free dry cooling system.

For 20+ years, US laser makers have built on EKSPLA’s electronics. Now EKSPLA is looking for distribution partners to bring its OEM diode drivers, Pockels cell drivers, and power supplies to more of the US and Canada.

The man behind EKSPLA’s tunable wavelength lasers has a place on the 2024 Photonics100. Dr. Romaldas Antanavičius also helped build PhotoSonus, a laser now used to detect breast cancer early.

Most terawatt-class lasers fire once and reset. SYLOS 3 runs at 1 kHz, and at 15 TW and 8 fs it gives ELI-ALPS researchers far more data per experiment. EKSPLA and Light Conversion built it from scratch in Vilnius.

Only three engineers took LINPRA’s 30th Anniversary Award, and Dr. Romaldas Antanavičius was one of them. His work spans both of EKSPLA’s Prism Award finalists and the cancer-detecting PhotoSonus laser.

From co-founding EKSPLA in 1992 to leading it to more than half the world’s scientific picosecond laser market, Kęstutis Jasiūnas has shaped the field. EPIC has now honored him with its Lifetime Achievement Award.

After three decades at the helm, EKSPLA co-founder Kęstutis Jasiūnas hands the CEO role to Aldas Juronis, who rose from leading the OEM laser program to running manufacturing. Jasiūnas turns to long-term strategy.