Our mission at Class 5 Photonics is to deliver ultrafast, high-power laser systems and EUV technology at outstanding performance to advance demanding applications from bio-imaging to ultrafast material science and attosecond science.
Class 5 Photonics GmbH is a private company founded in 2014 as spin-off of the world-leading EUV/X-ray synchrotron laboratory Deutsches Elektronensynchrotron DESY and the Helmholtz-Institute Jena.
Since over 10 years the Class 5 Photonics team builds robust optical parametric chirped pulse amplifiers (OPCPA) which already won several awards for their high performance.
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We offer award-winning products and continously innovate to enable researchers in physics, chemistry, and biology to conduct outstanding research at the frontiers of technology.
Competence
Our experienced team has a strong background in ultrafast research with the goal to achieve the maximum benefit for our customer‘s application by a tailored laser design and user-friendly operation.
Excellence in service
We offer high quality, solution oriented service to solve our customer’s problems with very fast response times and remote service capabilities.
Our growth story
2024
First industry customers
2023
First >200 W Multi-pass cell demonstrated
2022
Leader in 3-Photon microscopy
2021
Class 5 Photonics moved to the Start-up Labs Bahrenfeld.
2020
Class 5 Photonics continues to grow and has now 14 full time employees.
2019
Growing and moving again – now to the DESY Innovation Village.
2018
WINNER OF SPIE PRISM AWARDS (LASERS) WINNER OF LASERFOCUSWORLD INNOVATORS AWARD GOLD
2017
Move to new headquarter at DESY campus. Launch of Supernova OPCPA and Supernova IR OPCPA.
2016
Launch of White Dwarf IR OPCPA. First delivery of a White Dwarf dual OPCPA to life-science customer.
2015
First customer contracts.
2014
Winner of the OptecNet Photonics Award (StartUp Challenge). Class 5 Photonics was founded as a spin-off company of the German particle accelerator facility Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrontron DESY in Hamburg and launched the first product (White Dwarf OPCPA).
2013
First demonstration of a 112 W burst-mode OPCPA system for the Free-Electron Laser FLASH at DESY.
2010
First demonstration of a 60 kHz repetition rate sub-10 fs, OPCPA with 2 W average power and 3 GW peak power in collaboration with the Institute of Applied Physics in Jena.
2008
Helmholtz Young Investigator Group for high power laser development at DESY founded. The group leader, Dr. Franz Tavella, and his group members are the later founding team of Class 5 Photonics.
