Dr. Prof. Bojan Resan

    Activities at FHNW

    Lecturer laser technology at the FHNW Institute of Product and Production Engineering

    Teaching

    • Optical Engineering in Masters of Science in Engineering MSE
    • Electromagnetism and Measuring technologies in Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering and Engineering and Management
    • Advisor of Master and PhD students
    • Supervisor of student projects and Bachelor Thesis in Mechanical Engineering

    Research and Development

    • Design, developing and prototyping of ultrafast lasers
    • Optical systems and Optical Coherence Tomography
    • Process development in laser micromachining

    Profile

    Since 2015
    Lecturer, FHNW Institute of Product and Production Engineering, Windisch, Switzerland
    2014–2017
    Advanced Technology Group Manager, JDSU/Lumentum, Schlieren, Switzerland
    2012–2014
    Product Line Manager, Time-Bandwidth Products AG, Zürich, Switzerland
    2008–2012
    Project Leader and Marie Curie Senior Scientist Fellow, Time-Bandwidth Products AG, Zürich, Switzerland
    2004–2008
    Senior Development Engineer und Project Manager, Coherent Inc., Santa Clara, CA, USA
    2001–2004
    PhD in Optics, Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers/College of Optics, Orlando, FL, USA
    1999–2001
    Master Degree in Optics, Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers/College of Optics, Orlando, FL, USA
    1997–1998
    Master Degree in Photonics and Imaging, ENSPS Strasbourg/Institute d‘Optique, Universite de Paris Sud, Orsay, France
    1997
    Dipl. Ing. in Physics, University of Zagreb, Croatia

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    Publications and Projects

    Publications

    7 US Patents, 1 Book Chapter, 27 Journal Publications,

    Selected publications:

    [1] Roger Wüst, Daniel Hug, Benjamin Rudin, Florian Emaury, and Bojan Resan, “250 fs, 130 mW Laser With Tunable Pulse Repetition Rate From 0.5 to 1.3 GHz,” IEEE Photonics Journal 14(5), October 2022.

    [2] F. Lütolf, F. Friebel, I. Kuznetzov, B. Rudin, F. Emaury, B. Gallinet, R. Ferrini, G. Basset, and B. Resan, “Wafer-scale replicated gratings for compressing ultrafast laser pulses at telecom wavelengths,” Optics Continuum, 1(5), 1051-1059, May 2022.

    [3] A. Dax, E.  Divall, C. P. Hauri, M. Huppert, A. Romann, M. Schaedler, C. Vicario, A. Cavalieri, B. Resan, and A. Trisorio, “Arrival time fluctuation of the SwissFEL photocathode laser: characterization by a single color balanced cross correlator,” Optics Express, 30(9), 15495-15511, April 2022.

    [4] Romain Carreto, Beat Lüscher, Ronald Holtz and Bojan Resan, “Towards Ultrafast Laser Micromachining of X-Ray Gratings and Creation of Sub-Micron Hole Patterns, Comparison of Results with Bessel and Gaussian Beams,” Frontiers in Physics, 10 March 2022, https://doi.org/10.3389/fphy.2022.809212

    [1] Bojan Resan, Raffael Auchli, Vesna Villamaina, and Ronald Holtz, “Dynamic fiber delivery of 3 W 160 fs pulses with photonic crystal hollow core fiber patchcord,” Optics Express 25(20), 24553-24558, October 2017.

    [2] Andreas Rohrbacher, Omar E. Olarte, Vesna Villamaina, Pablo Loza-Alvarez, and Bojan Resan, “Multiphoton imaging with blue-diode-pumped SESAM-modelocked Ti:sapphire oscillator generating 5 nJ 82 fs pulses,” Optics Express 25(9), 10677-106784, May 2017.

    [3] Vesna Markovic, Andreas Rohrbacher, Peter Hofmann, Wolfgang Pallmann, Simonette Pierrot, and Bojan Resan, “160 W 800 fs Yb:YAG single crystal fiber amplifier without CPA,” Optics Express 23, 25883-25888, October 2015

    [4] Z. Y. Zhang, A. E. H. Oehler, B. Resan, S. Kurmulis, K. J. Zhou, Q. Wang, M. Mangold, T. Suedmeyer, U. Keller, K. J. Weingarten, and R. A. Hogg, “1.55 µm InAs/GaAs quantum dots and high repetition rate quantum dot SESAM mode-locked laser,” Nature Scientific Reports 2, 477, June 2012.

    [5] David Hillerkuss, …, Bojan Resan, ... et al., “26 Tbit/s line-rate super-channel transmission utilizing all-optical fast Fourier transform processing,” Nature Photonics 5, 364–371, May, 2011.

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    Projects

    • NanoArgovia: NanoLase - Nanomachining with novel low cost, compact, sub-100 fs blue diode pumped TiSa laser amplifier
    • Eurostar: GigaMicro - High rep rate femtosecond lasers for high throughput micromachining
    • Innosuisse: Industrial high repetition rate ultrafast lasers
    • NanoArgovia: Customized, nanostructured grating compressors for high repetition rate ultrafast lasers
    • Innosuisse: New concepts for ultrafast high resolution Optical Coherence Tomography

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