Companies Partner to Develop High-Power Display Laser

The University of Twente opened its BioImaging Centre, which serves as the core facility for microscopy at the university’s Technical Medical Centre. The facility is equipped with confocal...

For the last few years, I have taken time in December to reflect on what happened in the last year and what it means for the one to come. I would reflect on the major events within the laser industry...

Electro Optic Systems (EOS) secured a conditional contract to supply remote weapon systems (RWS) to Ukraine valued at up to $80 million. EOS’ Defence Systems business secured the contract with...

Mark Sobey, president of Coherent’s lasers segment, has retired. Sobey held the position since July 2022, when II-VI merged with Coherent. Before the merger, Sobey served as Coherent’s...

The Sapphire XC 1MZ 3D printer from Velo3D Inc. allows users to print parts with a height of 1 m, increasing the addressable use cases of end-to-end metal additive manufacturing. The system...

The HyperRapid NXT industrial picosecond laser from Coherent Corp. features a 10-W average output power in the deep-UV to enable ultra-precise edge ablation for organic LED displays. The laser...

The HP100A-50KW-GD from Gentec-EO is a laser power detector designed for high-power laser and laser system manufacturers, factories that cut thick metal parts with high-power lasers, and military...

The Spectra-Physics® IceFyre® FS IR200 laser from MKS Instruments Inc. is a high-power femtosecond laser designed for fast and high-quality micromachining applications. With >200-W...

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...

Given the pace at which technology advances, there always seems to be a learning curve. With the abundance of consumer electronics available, there typically is no right or wrong way to use these...

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...

Optical fibers are made from either glass or plastic. Most are roughly the diameter of a human hair, and they may be many miles long. Light is transmitted along the center of the fiber from one end...

Lumispot Tech has developed a series of machine vision inspection lasers, primarily encompassing illumination light sources and structured light sources such as line lasers. These are mainly used in...

We started developing FACs more than 15 years ago. The result is highly automated in-house processes which allow for competitive prices – even with high volumes. Diode lasers are efficient, compact,...

Everything you need to know about soldering, mounting, thermal management, drive current, environment, and more, regarding extending the lifetime of your laser diodes.

OEM dpss laser from lumispot tech, in this file, we mentioned the datasheet of the cw and qcw diode pumped solid state lasers, including its features, working principle and applications.

Following a brief introduction, professor Jannick Rolland will discuss the historical context and applications for freeform optics. She will then present mathematical descriptions and the latest...

FREE WEBINAR Sponsored by: Hamamatsu & Applied Scientific Instrumentation Additional Questions & Answers from the webinar are below: Dr. Kimani C. Toussaint Jr. Quantitative...

This event is supported by the European initiatives presented and is moderated by EPIC, the European Photonics Industry Consortium. The European Commission is helping companies access the...

Beam profilers are critical tools for characterizing lasers and light sources, whether the goal is to gain fundamental knowledge during research and development, to set important design parameters...

Spatially offset Raman spectroscopy (SORS) is a technique that extends traditional Raman spectroscopy by incorporating measurements at different spatial offsets. This method allows for the selective...

A Dammann grating is a type of diffractive optical element (DOE) used to create an array of equally spaced, uniform-intensity spots or beams. It is named after its inventor, Dr. Herbert Dammann. The...

A helium-neon (HeNe) laser is a type of gas laser that emits visible red light at a wavelength of 632.8 nanometers (nm). It operates based on the principle of stimulated emission of photons from...

A microdisplay is a miniature electronic display technology that is designed to project visual information onto a small screen. Unlike traditional displays, microdisplays are typically very compact...

Yokogawa CSU is the life sciences' leading confocal scanner. Its wide FOV, imaging clarity, and facile automation set the bar for best-in-class spinning disk performance. Yet traditional laser...

On this month's episode of Light Matters, we take you to the South by Southwest (SXSW) Trade Show in Austin, Texas, as new photonics innovations hit the show floor of the Austin Convention Center....

On this month's episode of Light Matters, we take you on a brief tour of the Higgins Laboratories at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). Quinsigamond Community College and WPI received a $4M grant...

Luminate NY, the only optics, photonics and imaging (OPI) accelerator and investment fund in the world, announced the final winners at the Light Tomorrow with Today event in Rochester, NY. For the...

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

Excelitas Technologies® Corp. is a leading industrial technology manufacturer focused on delivering innovative, market-driven photonic solutions to meet the illumination, optical, optronic,...

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...

OHARA manufactures more than 130 environmentally safe optical glass types, free of both lead and arsenic. More than 300 tons of optical glass are melted per month, available in the following forms of...