In order to implement “National Outline for Medium and Long-term Science and Technology Development (2006-2020)”, support the major scientific instrument and equipment development, promote the self-dependent innovation capacity and self-equipment level of the national scientific instrument and equipment, support the technological innovation, and serve the economy and social development, the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China, and Ministry of Finance People’s Republic of China established the Special Project of National Major Scientific Instrument and Equipment Development in 2011.

At present, the approval and initial work of the Special Project of National Major Scientific Instrument and Equipment Development 2011 has completed. The project “Femtosecond Laser Equipment Research and Development Used for Performance Research of New Type Aircraft Engine” undertook by the team of Yang Xiaojun and Cheng Guanghua from High-end Laser Equipment Engineering Center of State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics has passed the evaluation and obtained the approval. This project is obtained on the basis of exerting self-advantages of scientific research and achievement accumulation, arousing the enthusiasm of young technology backbones, grasp of the national development strategy and people’s livelihood need, and make full early planning and arrangement, and this project goes smoothly at present. The completion of this project will have significant social meaning and application value for the improvement of national self-innovation capacity and self-equipment level of scientific instrument.

Femtosecond laser cold machining equipment is a systematic engineering with optical, mechanical, and electrical integration, it can realize the machining of materials of metal, glass, ceramics, and silicon, and have significant application value in many fields. Comparing to traditional machining methods, this equipment has the advantages of high intensive focus, easy to operate, high flexibility, high efficiency, high quality, and energy saving and environmental protection. It has widely used in the fields of aeronautics and astronautics, metallurgy, electric power, petroleum, electronic information, transportation, and new materials, which almost involved all fields of national economy.