ZENIT SMART POLYCRYSTALS

Materials for
innovative lasers

Improving the processes and performance of laser systems

About us

Zenit Smart Polycrystals aims to develop and produce transparent polycrystals that allow for exceptional laser performance.

Zenit polycrystals are offered as an alternative to traditional and less performing single crystals.

Zenit Smart Polycrystals is a start-up founded in the ceramic district of Faenza (Italy) by a team of researchers from the Italian National Research Council (CNR). Supported by national and international funds, the group has patented a process that allows the creation of transparent polycrystalline components with complex shapes and geometries and chemical composition that can vary in three dimensions.

Laura Esposito

CEO

Jan Hostaša

Head of R&D

ZENIT SMART POLYCRYSTALS TEAM

Andrea Volfi

Materials Engineer

Andreana Piancastelli

Quality Control

Ennio Mammana

COO

Laura Ferrari

CMO

Marcello Mammana

CFO

Valentina Biasini

CTO

BETTER DISSIPATION
OF THE HEAT

vary in three dimensions

REDUCE PRODUCTION COSTS

DIFFERENT
APPLICATIONS

Zenit Smart Polycrystals aims primarily at the solid-state laser systems market. Zenit polycrystals are offered as an alternative to traditional single crystals.
Zenit polycrystals allow for better dissipation of the heat generated during the emission process, thus minimizing the degradation of performance caused by thermal gradients and related optical effects. This is possible thanks to the particular type and distribution of the dopant ions in the volume of the component, which can vary in three dimensions.

Zenit Smart Polycrystals allow to reduce production costs and to design and optimize the performance of the laser source for different applications. Thanks to the flexibility of shape and composition, Zenit polycrystals allow to
overcome the technology based on single crystals for the production of solid-state laser sources based on single crystals.

Zenit Smart Polycrystals aims primarily at the solid-state laser systems market. Zenit polycrystals are offered as an alternative to traditional single crystals.
Zenit polycrystals allow for better dissipation of the heat generated during the emission process, thus minimizing the degradation of performance caused by thermal gradients and related optical effects. This is possible thanks to the particular type and distribution of the dopant ions in the volume of the component, which can vary in three dimensions.

Zenit Smart Polycrystals allow to reduce production costs and to design and optimize the performance of the laser source for different applications. Thanks to the flexibility of shape and composition, Zenit polycrystals allow to overcome the technology based on single crystals for the production of solid-state laser sources based on single crystals.

BETTER DISSIPATION
OF THE HEAT

vary in
three dimensions

REDUCE PRODUCTION
COSTS

DIFFERENT
APPLICATIONS

Reference market
is very wide and in continuous growth.

Solid-state laser technology is widely used in the automotive sector, for example in mechanical processing/cutting and welding, in the medical laser sector, for example dermatology and eye surgery, in high-power lasers for scientific research. Zenit polycrystals are also of interest for the scintillation detector market, where the replacement of single crystals can reduce costs, and for lighting, particularly in the emerging sector of laser headlights for cars and LEDs.

Medical lasers

The market includes dermatological laser systems for aesthetic medicine, ophthalmic lasers (e.g. cataract operation) and lasers for physiotherapy and rehabilitation. As an advantageous alternative to traditional single crystals, Zenit proposes YAG-based polycrystals ((Y3Al5O12) suitably doped as laser gain means. Thanks to the possibility of developing and producing components with variable dopant distribution in three dimensions, Zenit offers the co-design of innovative solutions in the development of new laser systems.

Medical
lasers

Automotive

In the automotive sector Zenit offers solutions for laser systems for welding and cutting - technologies massively used for the production of vehicles - proposing laser gain media based on polycrystals as an alternative to conventional single crystals. Thanks to the possibility of developing and producing components with variable dopant distribution in three dimensions, Zenit offers to co-design innovative solutions in the development of new laser systems. For the same market, polycrystalline-based components are also being studied to be used as light converters within the innovative latest generation laser headlights, with a technology that offers great flexibility on form factors.

Lighting

For the lighting market, Zenit offers polycrystals as light converters in LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes) and laser headlights, with a technology that offers great flexibility on of form factors. Zenit's solutions are also proposed for high power light sources.

Scintillation
detectors

Scintillation detectors

To the field of particle and radiation detectors Zenit offers a variety of YAG-based scintillating polycrystals used as parts of the detection devices. Zenit products can be adapted to different applications thanks to the high variability of shapes with high resolution.

Partners

Zenit Smart Polycrystals was established on 20 September 2021 and acquired the exclusive license on the intellectual property of the process from the CNR.