Mr. Mantas Zamzickas, Senior Project Manager of Enterprise Lithuania, hosted the conference. Lithuanian Ambassador Deividas Matulionis made a welcome speech. Professor Wolfgang Sandner, Director General and CEO of ELI-DC International Consortium made a presentation about the ELI (Extreme Light Infrastructure) project. The ELI project involves Vacuum Structure, Ion sources, Neutron sources, Terahertz, Ultrafast laser, Attophysics, Nuclear&photonuclear etc. Now ELI has built facility in Czech, Romania and Hungary, and the fourth one is not confirmed yet.

 

Lithuanian Ambassador: Mr. Deividas Matulionis  

Prof. Wolfgang Sandner

 

      It is an honor to invite Professor Algis Piskarskas, President of Lithuanian Laser Association, to make a presentation about “Lithuania Laser Industry and Development”. Professor Piskarskas is one of the early experts to join the laser research works, and he makes very important contribution to Lithuania laser. He is also called “The Father of Laser” in Lithuania. “Almost 50 years ago, Lithuania laser started from zero. The studies & research of laser physics and quantum electronics in Vilnius University began in 1970, the pilot facility of lasers and related technique was established in 1983 and now we have 24 laser companies, including EKSPLA, EKSMA, Light Conversion, Standa, Altechna, Brolis etc. I’m very proud to say that the laser source for science from Lithuania occupies almost 10% in the world, and we double the sales nearly every five years”, said Prof. Piskarskas.

 

Prof. Algis Piskarskas, President of Lithuanian Laser Association

 

      Mr. Kęstutis Jasiūnas, Director General of EKSPLA, introduced the development and products of EKSPLA, and he also mentioned that the company had joined two projects of ELI.  

 

The sales development of Lithuanian laser