Cycle, a DESY spin-off in Femtosecond lasers

Cycle, a DESY spin-off was founded 3 years ago with the mission of building innovative ultrafast technology for science and industry applications. Cycle, was founded by Prof. Franz X. Kaertner and other scientists and holds the exclusive license to commercialize the key synchronization technologies from his research at MIT.

"We are producing world-leading timing equipment that synchronizes RF and optical equipment to each other with sub-femtosecond resolution. Key developments for these technologies started more than a decade ago at MIT and have been improved at Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY). Sub-femtosecond synchronization across several kilometers has been demonstrated [1] and is currently being commercialized," said Franz Kaertner. 

Cycle will be one of the first DESY spin-offs to be housed in the new Innovation Centre, Bahrenfeld which is a joint collaboration between DESY, University of Hamburg and the City of Hamburg. Read more.