Jenoptik Sells 200th Laser System for Airbags

Jenoptik has completed its new site on Gross-Berliner Damm in Berlin. In the new production facilities and state-of-the-art environment, more than 100 employees will develop and manufacture optical...

PASQAL, a developer of neutral atom quantum computing, secured a €100 million ($109 million) equity series B round led by new investor Temasek, a global investment company based in Singapore....

Quantum computing startup planqc closed a financing round of €4.6 million ($4.67 million) led by UVC Partners and Speedinvest. With the funding, planqc will develop a highly scalable quantum...

S&P Dow Jones Indices announced that ON Semiconductor will replace IPG Photonics in the S&P 500. IPG Photonics will replace Yelp Inc. in the S&P MidCap 400. SANTA CLARA, Calif....

The JENar™ Silverline™ 340-355-332-S from Jenoptik is an F-Theta objective lens for laser material processing that is specially designed to meet the requirements of solar cell production....

The LS from Jenoptik is an open heat sink diode laser package for optical pumping of next-generation solid-state lasers. While slightly deviating from the CS form factor, the LS features improved...

The UFO Probe® Vertical from Jenoptik is a probe card made for testing photonic integrated circuits (PICs) at wafer level. The probe card enables parallel functional tests of optical and...

The Opticline CA automated shaft measuring instrument from Jentoptik AG provides optical-tactile contour measurement. With optical contour adjustment via shadow crack, a T3D scanning sensor...

The basic setup in laser perforation includes a pulsed laser, a lens and either a moving mirror, a rotating web or both. Each laser pulse creates a hole in the material. During the blank time in...

When purchasing an industrial laser system, the astute buyer will look for a Class 1 laser product — a system where the laser beam hazard is completely enclosed and there is no potential laser...

Materials processing with lasers is actually a broad term for a diverse range of applications. The major categories of these uses, and the lasers that service them, are summarized Table 1. At one...

Images are produced by many means: cameras, x-ray machines, electron microscopes, radar and ultrasound. They are used in the entertainment, medical, scientific and business industries; for security...

We performed a measurement on different Fast and Ultrafast laser sources with our Blink HS, a new generation of High Speed Laser Energy Sensor. We showed the “Turn on” transient effects, the “pulse...

The whitepaper describes how femtosecond pulses from a Menhir Photonics MENHIR-1030 seeder can easily be amplified using the modular neoYb amplifiers from neoLASE. The advantages of the presented...

Full Mueller matrix measurements allow for elimination of ambiguity and a fuller understanding of polarization metrology. The Exicor 150XT system offers complete Mueller matrix measurement from 350...

The massive production of plastics has led to a throw-away culture rendering plastic pollution one of the biggest environmental issues. One solution to prevent plastic pollution is improving waste...

Laser welding has developed into one of the most used joining techniques in sheet metals for applications such as car bodies, medical devices, sensors, batteries, and more. To create successful welds...

Success in a specific market depends on meeting the right technical requirements. As demand increases, it becomes necessary to develop and establish new manufacturing processes to produce functional...

Most of us are familiar with the many benefits that laser-based additive manufacturing brings to manufacturing, including reduced tooling costs, easier testing of complex geometries, and faster time...

Using SWIR, MIR, and FIR lasers requires knowledge of their beam quality parameters. Many considerations significantly impact the laser process, such as mode structure, positional stability, and...

A femtosecond laser is a type of laser that emits ultrashort pulses of light with durations on the order of femtoseconds, where one femtosecond is equal to 10-15 seconds. These lasers are capable of...

An ultrafast laser is a type of laser that emits extremely short pulses of light with durations typically on the order of femtoseconds (10-15 seconds) or picoseconds (10-12 seconds). These lasers are...

An excimer laser is a type of ultraviolet laser that emits short pulses of light in the ultraviolet spectrum. The term excimer is derived from excited dimer, reflecting the nature of the gain medium...

A beam shaper is an optical device or system designed to modify the spatial profile or intensity distribution of a laser or light beam. The goal is to transform the incoming beam into a desired shape...

Technology Transfer Programs are often a concerted effort to share skills, knowledge, technologies, methods of manufacturing, samples of manufacturing, and facilities among governments or...

Students from large and small size companies and bigger Department of Defense affiliates of the AIM Photonics Institute took part in the recent AIM Photonics Summer Academy at MIT. This was the third...

Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have developed a single flat lens that can focus the entire visible spectrum of light in the same spot and in...

AI, cameras, industry - it seems natural that this context refers to the intelligent analysis of individual images. This is exactly where IDS NXT malibu does pioneering work: The new industrial...

A fiber laser is a type of laser in which the active gain medium is an optical fiber doped with rare-earth ions such as erbium, ytterbium, or neodymium. Fiber lasers generate coherent light through...

LaserPoint manufactures a wide portfolio of laser power and energy meters able to perform laser measurements with high accuracy. They developed the hard coatings to absorb the laser radiation which...

IPG Photonics is the world's leading provider of high power fiber lasers and fiber amplifiers that are revolutionizing performance and utility in a remarkable array of materials processing,...

FOCtek provides customers with all types of custom manufactured lenses, Precision Optical Components, Polarizing Optics, Prisms, Filters, Coatings, Optical Systems, Crystals, Nonlinear Crystals,...

The LaCroix name is synonymous with quality precision optics. Since 1947, three generations of family leadership have guided LaCroix Precision Optics to become the premier precision optics...