The Advanced Photonics Research Institute (APRI) at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) concluded a joint research MOU with the Prague Asterix Laser System (PALS) in the Czech Republic for laser research development.

The Prague Asterix Laser System (PALS) is world-renowned for its excellence in X-Laser and high energy molecular beam development using high power lasers.

Both institutions will conduct research for the development of X-lasers, which is produced when an ultra-power microwave laser pulse ionizes a gas medium.

The director of APRI, Mr. Jong-min Lee, said, “This MOU contract represents the position of APRI as an International Research Institution and both institutions will strengthen collaboration through human resource and technology exchanges.”

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The *Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) is a research-oriented graduate school established by the Ministry of Science and Technology in the Republic of Korea in 1993.
*The university’s identity was changed from K-JIST to GIST in 2004

-November 23, 2006-