As part of the efforts to facilitate the further use of fusion technologies in new applications and create innovation opportunities for European industries, EUROfusion with the support of In Extenso Innovation Croissance selected in 2022 two promising project for 38k€ funding each within the FUTTA III Open Call for Technology Demonstrator. These projects reached their end in the last quarter 2023 with great results.

Chromodynamics – “Cancer research at the speed of light”  : Conventional tools like microscopy and cytometry fall short in providing a complete understanding of diseases like cancer. Multiplex imaging, a cornerstone of Spatial Biology, offers promising insights into disease biology. However, existing solutions are slow, expensive, and complex, hindering widespread adoption in academia and industry. Thanks to the expertise in camera and control systems for tokamak fusion reactors (MANTIS) of its founder, Chromodynamics conducted a project in collaboration with the Microscopy and Cytometry Core Facility at the Amsterdam University Medical Center to address these limitations with an affordable, user-friendly multiplex imaging system, offering significant cost and time savings. The experimental studies validated the feasibility of detecting the locations of many separate fluorescent markets on a human tissue sample and thus strengthening the value proposition and the fundability of the project.

KAPTEOS – uLtra wIde Band time-domain calibration of E-field pRObes (LIBERO) – The interaction of intense and energetic laser-pulses with matter generates strong fluxes of radiation. In particular, a significant amount of the released energy is converted into transient Radio Frequency (RF) ElectroMagnetic (EM) fields. Their intensity can easily overcome the MV/m order, and then represent a serious issue for electronics placed nearby, or alternatively a resource for generating intense transient EM fields. For the assessment of such intense transient EM fields, Kapteos has developed optical RX antennas as E-field probes that can operate in harsh environments Whereas their calibration are straightforward up to a few hundred of MHz, there is no comfortable and easy solution for their calibration above 1 GHz. The goal of LIBERO project was to demonstrate the capability of an innovative device (linked to a technology patented by ENEA and ABC Laser facility) to calibrate any E-field probe in the time-domain on an Ultra-Wide Band (UWB) and in some cases a complement, to current classical TEM (TransverseElectroMagnetic) and GTEM (GHz TEM) cells. The project helped to have a better understanding of oscillations and the type of laser required to develop this future device and strengthen the collaboration between KAPTEOS and ENEA.