laser welding of various kinds (e.g. in cooperation with Osaka University, Japan) laser additive manufacturing (SLM, LMD, e.g. with Siemens Turbomachinery, Finspång) laser surface treatment (cladding, impregnation, alloying, hardening/metallurgy) laser cutting (inert gas cutting, oxygen cutting, remote fusion cutting) laser micromachining (in cooperation with Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) laser-matter interaction (absorption mechanism, laser beam shape)