Abstract
Rigorous spatial characterization of focused laser beams belongs to important components of
any laser-matter experiment. Nevertheless, characterization of focused beams brings severe
difficulties due to enormous intensities and (sub)micron spot sizes. Methods of ablation and
desorption imprints represent an unique way to solve this issue as they exploit the laserinduced
damage inevitably occurring at the focus. However, current imprinting methods are ex
situ, time-consuming, and require a significant portion of qualified human work making their
dissemination to the scientific community uneasy. This led to a definition and initiation of the
AbloCAM project - an universal device performing the imprinting techniques automatically on
the start-to-end basis. In the proposed project a set of fundamental robust methods is to be
developed and experimentally tested which will allow further continuation in the AbloCAM task.
We plan to utilize artificial intelligence to substitute the human element currently indispensable
for the imprinting methods.