Lithuania’s LITILIT lands €8M to take femtosecond lasers into mass manufacturing

Vilnius-based femtosecond laser manufacturer LITILIT has secured an €8 million loan from the Lithuanian National Development Bank ILTE to bring its innovative technology into mass manufacturing. The company's patented femtosecond laser systems promise to make industrial manufacturing more affordable and easier to integrate. By leveraging the cold ablation capability of femtosecond lasers, the technology can process materials without damaging surrounding structures, which is crucial for applications ranging from eye surgery to computer chip manufacturing.

However, LITILIT's CEO Nikolajus Gavrilinas notes that existing femtosecond laser systems often face limitations due to their heavy infrastructure, installation, and maintenance requirements. To address these issues, LITILIT is developing the FEMODA system, a modular platform that combines control electronics, optics, and cooling into a single industrial unit.

This design allows for easy integration into factories, temperature stability, and modular upgrades, with individual modules easily replaceable if needed. The FEMODA system will feature an average optical power of up to 1000 W, split across 10 to 20 separate beam channels, making it one of the most powerful modular industrial systems.

LITILIT aims to produce 3,000 femtosecond lasers per year starting this fall, as it seeks to overcome the current barriers to femtosecond laser adoption, including the complexity of manufacturing high-power systems.