German WLT becomes an EOS Affiliated Society

On 2nd May, the EOS Executive Committee accepted the membership application from WLT.

In addition to the first German ational optical society ,the DGaO (the German ranch of the EOS), the WLT has now been accepted as an Affiliated ociety of the EOS, making he WLT members associate embers of the EOS. With this decision the Execom followed the recommendation from the DGaO. After Belgium, Germany is the second European country that is represented in the EOS by two national optical societies.

Who is the WLT?
The German Scientific Laser Society (WLT) emerged from the former Scientific Working Group Of Laser Technology. WLT members are heading large scientific institutions which mainly deal with laser research and laser technology such as laser basics, source development, production engineering, material science, metrology, opto-electronics, and laser medicine.
These institutions include university and off-university institutes, institutes of the Fraunhofer and Max Planck societies as well as Leibniz and Helmholtz associations.

The about 40 institutions run by WLT members employ a total of more than 1500 scientists. The goals of WLT are:
• supporting of the scientific interests of laser technology and optical technologies.
• identifying and eliminating knowledge deficits
• supporting training and education
• supporting scientific exchange and technology transfer.
• representing the interests of laser technology and the optical technologies in public.

The WLT will be represented in the EOS Advisory Committee by Reinhart Poprawe (Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology, Aachen, Germany).

More information: www.wlt.de