FLAIR 2024, held in Assisi, Italy, from September 16-21, 2024, was an international conference series Field Laser Applications in Industry and Research. It aimed to bring together researchers from both industrial and academic research laboratories and institutions to stimulate new research initiatives and field laser applications involving sensitive and selective detection of molecular species with a broad interdisciplinary approach.

FLAIR provided overview lectures by international experts, emphasizing integrative and multi-disciplinary approaches. Talks and posters were presented by laser detection specialists, and also by researchers active in one of the fields of application (atmospheric monitoring, industrial process control, biomedicine, combustion science, etc.) who are highly familiar with the measurement challenges in an industrial or research setting. Special industry sessions and an exhibition enabled industrial partners to highlight recent progress of commercial systems. The social events helped foster an atmosphere in which it was easy to discuss interact with researchers across different disciplines.

We presented a poster titled ‘Optimizing Orbital Angular Momentum for Enhanced Photon-Molecule Interactions in Spectroscopic Measurements’