Naujienos ir renginiai

 

Together with colleagues from Vilnius University and the companies Light Conversion and EKSPLA, he was awarded the prize in Technological Sciences for Experimental Development Work to the series "High Power Multi-Optical Cycle Pulse Sources for Extreme Light Technologies (2009–2023)" (authors: Dr Jonas Adamonis, Dr Rimantas Budriūnas, Dr Andrejus Michailovas, Dr Tomas Stanislauskas, and Dr Arūnas Varanavičius).

 

Congratulations to our colleague and the whole team of winners!

 

A. Michailovas received international recognition last year. Electro Optics magazine named him one of the world's top 100 photonics leaders in 2024. The researcher was included in the list for his academic achievements, numerous patented inventions and successful international projects.

 

Over the last couple of years, he has also taken part in several international projects with partners. Just this summer, EKSPLA finished a project devoted to early-stage diagnostics of female breast cancer.

The work of Lithuanian Science Prize winners has led to the development of extraordinary high-power, lultra-short pulse lasers that were beyond our imagination a decade ago. One of these is the SYLOS laser system which opens up new opportunities for the world's scientists in the fields of X-rays, 4D imaging, biology, life and attosecond sciences.

 

"It's always nice when someone acknowledges the work you've done, even if it's not very big. I would like to emphasise that the leader of this team is Dr Arūnas Varanavičius. He has been carrying this work on his shoulders for many years, and my colleagues and I have helped him as much as we could," says the physicist.

 

Dr Andrejus Mikhailovas' contribution to the Lithuanian Science Prize winning series is the development of storage lasers, which are the basis for OPCPA (Optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification) technology that led to SYLOS and other important lasers.