Press release December 2020:

 

85% of cough droplets blocked by surgical mask, experiment shows

"Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have recorded coughs resolved at high temporal resolution - 8,000 images per second - and high detection sensitivity, using laser light scattering. This enabled them to count the number of droplets as well as measure their speed with high accuracy. The preliminary results show that only 15% of droplets pass through a low-cost surgical mask."

 

 

Interview article in American Scientist

May - June 2020: "A Clear View of Cloudy Sprays"

 

"Berrocal and his colleagues have married two competing imaging techniques into one method that illuminates these sprays; it uses a combination of x-rays and near-infrared laser light to provide unprecedented views of droplet cloud structures."

 

Press release February 2020 - in Optics & Photonics News

 

"Scientists at a Swedish university have sidestepped the scattering problem by combining techniques: lasers and X-rays, absorption and fluorescence. The team split the beam from a laser-driven X-ray source and simultaneously measured an atomizing spray’s X-ray absorption and two-photon fluorescence. The dual method provides fine image details of the optically dense sprays that otherwise would get blurred and distorted with standard techniques."

 

 

 

Press release July 2018: ERC - Starting Grant

 

Elias Kristensson invented a coding imaging concept called Frequency Recognition Algorithm for Multiple Exposures (FRAME) that can film at up to 5 trillion frames per second. To date, FRAME is the only method that enables videography of single, non-repetitive event with spectroscopic compatibility in femtosecond timescale. With the Starting Grant, Kristensson aims to develop novel diagnostic tools based on this method and to examine ultrafast events. This would open the door to a significant amount of new research possibilities.

 

Best Master Project in Photonics 2017 to David Frantz

 

PhotonicsSweden and the Swedish Optical Society have established a prize for students in the field of photonics in order to promote research in photonics in Sweden especially related to R&D with industrial impact. The Student Award consists of a certificate and a cash prize of SEK 6.000 and a second prize of SEK 2.000. The winner of the year 2017 is: Mr. David Frantz. Title of the Master project: "High Contrast Imaging Through Scattering Media Using Structured Illumination Fourier Filtering"

 

 

Press release April 2017: World fastest film

 

Andreas Ehn and Elias Kristensson have developed together an optical technique capable of filming events as short as 0.2 trillionths of a second. This is faster than has previously been possible. The technology has demonstrated the possibility in recording a series of four images within a time interval of  600 femtoseconds. All results are presented in a recent article published in "Light: Science and Applications" from Nature Publishing. To learn more about the technology, check the following REUTERS video.

 

 

 

Press release December 2014: ERC - Starting Grant

 

Edouard Berrocal, has been awarded one of the most prestigious grants available to young researchers: an ERC Starting Grant. The grant is worth EUR 1.5 million and will enable him to spend the next five years investigating what happens in the crucial moment at the start of combustion when the liquid fuel is injected into the combustion chamber and vaporises. Using advanced laser imaging technology that he has developed, it might become possible to observe the internal structure of fuel sprays, which remains as yet unknown. This new observation would provide valuable experimental data to computational spray modelers.

 

 

2014 Young Researcher Award  in Optical Technologies

 

The Young Researcher Award in Optical Technologies is given by the Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies (SAOT) to young researchers (below 40 years old) with a proven record in optics, photonics and optical technologies. The award is remunerated with 100.000€ to be used either for the personal salary of the laureate or for travel expenses or consumables or equipment related to the research.  The award winner receive the formal status of a guest professor and is expected to conduct research in Erlangen University (Germany), starting within one year after the award winner has been announced.

 

 

Tanasawa award at the ICLASS 2012

 

Pictures from the ICLASS 2012 conference after Edouard Berrocal and Elias Kristensson received the Tanasawa award for the best conference article of the the International Conference of Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems - ICLASS 2009.