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As professor at the Geneva School of Engineering, I consulted for local companies in the development of signal processing hardware and algorithms. This allowed me to work on a variety of projects, but always on a small portion; I was able to share the joy of a finished product only vicariously. Among my clients was Metrolab, who confided the prototyping of the digital portion of a new instrument to our team. After several years of collaboration, the desire to participate in an industrial project from A to Z made me jump at the proffered opportunity to join the company. In the intervening three years, I've participated in the birth of the THM1176, and I eagerly look forward to the delivery of the PT2026. For the future, I assure you that our notebooks are overflowing with projects, each more fascinating than the previous. Ensuring that at least a few of these products arrive in your lab is my greatest motivation. |
The next large scale facility in preparation at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) is an X-ray free electron laser, named the SwissFEL. This national project aims to provide one of the world´s most brilliant light beams by the time it will go in operation in 2016. The magnetic components for SwissFEL, namely the bending magnets, focusing magnets and undulators are very challenging because of the small size of the magnet apertures, and the severe tolerance requirements on quality of the magnetic field. Let's take a guided tour with Stéphane Sanfilippo, the leader of the PSI Magnet Section, and find out more about mobile Hall probes, miniature rotating coils and stretched wires used for SwissFEL.
