Source: Laser Manufacture News  7^th Aug 2026

High-end ultrafast laser sources are core components for advanced semiconductor packaging, precision micro/nano processing, and the new energy industry. Long dominated by overseas brands, these sources have posed significant challenges for domestic substitution. In recent years, a group of homegrown hard-tech companies have steadily deepened their underlying technologies and filled gaps in the industrial chain. Anhui Huachuang Hongdu Optoelectronic Technology Co., Ltd. (Laserion) is one of the most representative among them. Since establishing operations in Hefei in 2019, the company has achieved leapfrog growth in just a few years, earning recognition as a National High-Tech Enterprise and a National-level "Little Giant" specialized and innovative enterprise, and becoming a benchmark for domestic breakthroughs in China's ultrafast laser sector.

Leveraging original innovations in underlying technology, Laserion has independently developed its "ultra-high-gain slab-based integrated amplification technology," enabling stable mass production of 100W–300W high-power ultrafast lasers. The company has built a comprehensive portfolio of high-end laser sources spanning femtosecond, picosecond, nanosecond, mid-infrared, and single-frequency narrow-linewidth products, with multiple models matching or outperforming overseas competitors. Through deep industry-academia-research integration, a full-chain customer service system, and a new headquarters capacity upgrade, Laserion has constructed differentiated core competitive barriers and established an integrated "light source–TGV–chip" industrial architecture, officially entering a new phase of group-scale, high-speed development.

To thoroughly examine the breakthrough path of domestic ultrafast laser companies and focus on the innovation and industrial upgrading of China's laser technology, Laser Manufacture News interviewed Shu Jian, Technical Director of the Laser Division at Laserion. The in-depth dialogue covered the company's technical achievements, competitive barriers, strategic layout, and industry trends, providing industrial reference for the high-quality and self-reliant development of China's ultrafast laser industry.

Shu Jian

Technical Director, Laser Division, Laserion

Laser Manufacture News: Since its founding in 2019, Laserion has rapidly grown into a national-level specialized and innovative "little giant" enterprise and a national high-tech enterprise. Could you share the key milestones and leapfrog moments in the company's growth in technology, production capacity, and market?

Shu: To some extent, Laserion's development can be seen as a microcosm of how domestic ultrafast laser companies have broken through and found their way. We established operations in Hefei in 2019 with a clear initial goal: to tackle industry pain points and overcome bottleneck challenges. 2020 was an important year of technological leap for us, as the team successfully broke through the core technology of 100W picosecond lasers. At the time, this achievement was a landmark for China, proving that we had the capability to compete head-to-head with leading international brands on the two core indicators of high power and high energy. From 2022 to 2024, the company was successively recognized as a national high-tech enterprise and a national-level specialized and innovative "little giant" enterprise. Our product portfolio continued to expand, we established a firm foothold in the high-end market, and our team and production lines multiplied in scale, completing the industrialization loop. In 2026, the company entered a new phase of large-scale, group-based development. Laser shipments have seen explosive growth, and output value continues to climb rapidly. Thanks to stable delivery and excellent performance, orders for our high-power infrared and ultraviolet picosecond lasers are now scheduled through September and October this year. Market demand is strong and development momentum is robust, laying a solid foundation in production capacity and delivery as we take on global high-end manufacturing and push forward industrialization.

Laser Manufacture News: We understand that your company has now achieved a full-category product portfolio that is widely applied across many fields. Could you talk about the core industrial value your products and technologies have created in breaking overseas technology monopolies and improving the stability and reliability of domestic lasers?

Shu: In the past, high-end laser sources in China were long monopolized by overseas brands, leading to common problems such as high procurement costs, slow after-sales response, insecure supply chains, and insufficient stability under industrial working conditions. These issues severely constrained the independent development of China's high-end manufacturing industry. By completing a full-category portfolio covering femtosecond, picosecond, nanosecond, mid-infrared, and single-frequency narrow-linewidth lasers, Laserion's core mission is to reclaim autonomy over the technology, pricing, and service of high-end laser sources and to fill critical gaps in the domestic industrial chain. Currently, our products are widely used in high-end fields such as advanced semiconductor packaging, photovoltaic new energy, and precision processing. Core performance fully benchmarks against and, in some cases, surpasses overseas competitors. Take our high-repetition-rate deep-ultraviolet laser as an example: the product has passed rigorous verification by end customers and meets all standards for replacing imported lasers. It has achieved 24/7 uninterrupted stable operation on actual production sites, demonstrating a reliable and stable capability for supplying domestically produced light sources.

Laser Manufacture News: Leveraging the provincial enterprise R&D center platform and years of independent research, the company has achieved multiple landmark technological breakthroughs in the industry. What representative core technology achievements has your company made in the field of ultrafast solid-state lasers? What long-standing technical bottlenecks and engineering pain points have you solved?

Shu: The high-power ultrafast laser field has long been plagued by technical bottlenecks such as thermal lens effect, amplifier gain degradation, and beam distortion. It is difficult to achieve both high power output and excellent beam quality—this is the core challenge in mass-producing domestic high-end lasers to replace imports. Targeting these industry pain points, the company independently developed its ultra-high-gain slab-based integrated amplification technology. This breakthrough overcomes the thermal management shortcomings of traditional lasers and solves engineering problems such as beam distortion and energy degradation under high-power operating conditions. It supports the stable mass production of 100W–300W high-power industrial-grade ultrafast lasers, breaks overseas technology monopolies, and fills a gap in the domestic industry. The company has now built a full-category high-end light source matrix. At the same time, by leveraging its process development capabilities to connect deeply with customer sites, the company uses end-user feedback to drive optimization of various laser parameters, forming full-chain service capabilities spanning core components, process development, and turnkey solutions. Through continuous technological innovation and a robust R&D system, the company has successfully been approved as a provincial enterprise R&D center, using this as a core platform to steadily advance the iteration and industrialization of cutting-edge laser technologies.

Laser Manufacture News: In March 2026, the new headquarters project of Laserion officially broke ground. What business growth and market layout considerations drove this headquarters expansion and upgrade? In what dimensions will the new headquarters support the company's push into the high-end ultrafast laser market and meet its rapidly growing order demand?

Shu: The expansion and upgrade of the new headquarters is a strategic choice to adapt to rapid business growth and sprint toward the high-end market. In recent years, business has continued to grow rapidly, placing higher demands on production capacity and R&D conditions, making expansion and upgrading imperative. The construction of the new headquarters is precisely an advance layout for this round of high-speed expansion, and a key step in deepening our presence in the high-end market and advancing industrial upgrading.

once operational, the new headquarters will expand the R&D and production base to nearly 25,000 square meters, supporting the company's sprint into the high-end market from three dimensions. First, production capacity: it will effectively release new capacity, providing ample support for the company's rising market orders and ensuring rapid response to customer demand and stable delivery. Second, R&D: it will establish a higher-standard ultrafast laser R&D platform to support cutting-edge technology research and process iteration. Third, strategy: using this as the core carrier, the company will implement a three-tier industrial architecture of "underlying core light sources, mid-layer TGV substrates, and top-layer chip terminals," focusing on high-end application scenarios such as AI computing chips. This will enable integrated turnkey solutions, accelerate technology industrialization, and comprehensively enhance the company's industry voice and core competitiveness in the global ultrafast laser field.

Laser Manufacture News: The company has been deeply engaged in industry-academia-research collaboration and previously worked with the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to move cutting-edge technology from theory to engineering. What technological breakthroughs has this joint research model delivered? In addition, what long-term framework and talent development system has the company established in university-enterprise integration?

Shu: Ultrafast laser technology is a multidisciplinary hard-tech field, and industry-academia-research collaboration is key to rapid technology deployment. The company has formed a deeply complementary research model with the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry of CAS: the institute focuses on frontier theory and new materials research, while the company concentrates on engineering translation and mass production, bridging the full chain from laboratory research to industrial manufacturing and significantly shortening the commercialization cycle of high-end domestic lasers.

In terms of industry-education integration, the company leverages Hefei's industrial strengths and has jointly built practical training bases with local universities. We open up industrial and R&D scenarios, with senior technical teams leading hands-on teaching to connect campus theory with industrial application. This model not only builds a talent pipeline for the company and improves our talent structure, but also supports the regional optoelectronics talent ecosystem and empowers the development of the local hard-tech industry.

Laser Manufacture News: Faced with increasingly diverse and high-end market demands, what kind of operational and R&D framework has Laserion built in terms of rapid product iteration, precise scenario adaptation, customized solutions, and full-cycle customer service?

Shu: Demand in high-end manufacturing has evolved from standardized equipment procurement to integrated partnerships involving customized processes, turnkey solutions, and full-lifecycle support. To address this, the company has established a closed-loop operating system integrating R&D, market, and service. On the R&D side, we have built a rapid custom development mechanism that can tailor indicators such as wavelength, output power, and processing precision to customers' differentiated application needs, enabling fast technology iteration and deployment of dedicated solutions. On the market side, we adhere to a high-end differentiation strategy, avoiding low-end homogenized competition and focusing on high-value tracks such as computing chips and precision processing to precisely match process pain points. On the service side, the company has established three domestic regional centers in East China, South China, and Northwest China, while simultaneously expanding overseas service coverage. We have built a nationwide service system with round-the-clock online support and 48-hour rapid response to ensure stable operation of customer production lines.

Laser Manufacture News: Laserion has been able to sustain steady growth and win deep recognition from leading customers and research institutes. In your view, what are the company's core competitive barriers and differentiated advantages compared with peers?

Shu: I believe our core competitiveness and differentiation are mainly reflected in four aspects. First, original technology barriers. Our core team has more than a decade of industry experience. Through independent innovation in underlying optical architecture, we have built a patent system that cannot be easily replicated through simple imitation, forming a solid technological moat. Second, strategic differentiation. From the very beginning, the company focused on the high-power, high-threshold 100W–300W segment, deeply cultivating high-value-added high-end manufacturing scenarios and proactively avoiding low-end, low-price competition. Third, high reliability. We precisely balance ultimate product performance with long-term industrial stability, establishing a stringent quality control system and a robust supply chain, and improving the localization rate of core components. Our products can adapt to complex industrial working conditions and fully meet the continuous production needs of high-end equipment. Fourth, application synergy and a closed-loop service system. We not only provide high-performance light sources, but also possess complete process development capabilities. We can deeply support end customers in process validation and on-site implementation, continuously optimizing parameters and process matching around real production scenarios. This forms a closed loop of "customer feedback – parameter correction – process iteration," truly solving users' actual pain points in production line integration and improving overall yield and comprehensive efficiency.

Laser Manufacture News: based on the current foundation, what is Laserion's overall development strategy for the next two to three years? Are there clear implementation plans and development goals in frontier technology research, high-end market expansion, nationwide market layout, and industrialization of achievements?

Shu: The next two to three years can be described as a critical period of leapfrog development for the company. Laserion will remain committed to the high-reliability solid-state laser track and implement a "1+3+N" development strategy. We will anchor the core direction of AI computing power iteration and upgrading, and break through performance bottlenecks through two routes: quantum computing underlying logic and TGV advanced packaging. In technology, we will continue to tackle frontier laser technologies and consolidate our barriers. In business, we will connect the three-tier architecture of "light source – TGV – chip," expand into the advanced packaging track, and accelerate the deployment of specialized lasers and supporting production lines. In industry, we will empower diverse scenarios including semiconductors, quantum technology, and new energy, providing integrated solutions. In market, we will use the new Hefei headquarters as the core to advance our overseas strategy and contribute to the high-quality development of the global optoelectronics and computing power industries.

Laser Manufacture News: How do you assess the development trajectory of China's ultrafast laser and precision laser sectors over the next few years? What new opportunities and technological changes will the industry face, and what competitive pressures and technical challenges will it encounter?

Shu: My view on the industry's development trend over the next few years is this: China's ultrafast laser industry will enter a golden period of technological iteration and commercial scaling, marked by accelerating domestic substitution, multiple application scenarios breaking out, and rising market concentration. Competition in the industry will upgrade from a simple contest of power to a comprehensive competition encompassing fine control, long-term reliability, and turnkey solutions.

The opportunities are significant. High-end processing demand in aerospace new materials, AI computing hardware, and other fields continues to surge, while advances in cutting-edge laser technology keep expanding the boundaries of industrial applications. At the same time, challenges coexist. Homogeneous competition and price wars are intensifying in the low- and medium-power segment. The accelerating pace of technological iteration places higher demands on R&D investment, and domestic shortcomings in underlying technologies such as optical materials and high-end coatings still require long-term, deep industry efforts to overcome.

Laser Manufacture News: At present, domestic substitution has entered a critical phase. In the future, through what continuous breakthroughs in technological innovation, product upgrades, and ecosystem development will Laserion help high-end domestic laser sources shake off import dependence and lead domestic precision laser intelligent manufacturing to achieve a high-end breakthrough?

Shu: As laser domestic substitution enters a critical phase, the core of competition has shifted to comprehensive strength in reliability, self-controllability, and full-chain services. At the technology level, the company insists on original and forward-looking R&D, laying out frontier directions such as intelligent control and ultra-short ultrafast lasers, and continuously pushing the upper limits of technology. At the product level, we are advancing integrated innovation in optics, mechanics, electronics, and computing, increasing self-development and domestic substitution of core components, strengthening supply chain security, and reducing downstream application costs. For us, the corporate goal is not limited to developing and manufacturing high-performance lasers; we are even more committed to driving the coordinated development of the entire industrial chain. Therefore, at the industrial ecosystem level, the company will actively collaborate with upstream and downstream partners to build a synergistic development ecosystem and establish a self-controllable domestic laser industrial chain.

In the future, leveraging the production capacity and R&D advantages of the new headquarters, the company will continue to deepen underlying technologies and industrialize achievements. We aim not only to create high-end domestic laser products, but also to drive the coordinated upgrading of the entire industrial chain, helping China's precision laser intelligent manufacturing industry completely shake off import dependence and achieve high-end independent breakthroughs.