ProPhotonix to Distribute Oclaro Lasers

An international team of scientists is rethinking the principles of radiation physics, with the goal of creating super-bright light sources that are compact and relatively convenient to use. ...

Laser technology company Lumibird inked two acquisition agreements, one to acquire the Saab Group’s defense laser rangefinder business, and one to acquire Areva’s 37% stake in optics and...

Glass technology company SCHOTT (SCHOTT North America) was awarded a multimillion-dollar contract from a leading defense contractor for infrared glass. The order supplies glass for launch tube...

Sensor technology company Leuze named Xavier Hamers CEO and chairman of the executive board of the global Leuze electronic Inc., effective April 1. Hamers joins the company from BARTEC Safe.t...

The Digital Compact Laser from ProPhotonix Ltd. features an 8-mm diameter for digital control and monitoring where space is restricted. Digital functionality enables system designers to provide...

ProPhotonix Ltd. has announced 375-nm UV industrial laser modules to address a wide range of OEM applications. Rugged and reliable, the lasers are available at power levels up to 30 mW and...

The COBRA HyperSpec SWIR 2.0 LED line light from ProPhotonix Ltd. is a SWIR hyperspectral device with 11 wavelengths filling the band from 950 to 1750 nm and a peak-to-valley ratio of <1.5. ...

The Focus Core Laser Scanner from FARO® Technologies Inc. is designed for 3D capture in the construction, building operations, and public safety markets. With scan speeds of less than one...

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...

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...

Excimers are pulsed gas lasers that deliver high output power and pulse energies in the ultraviolet and deep-ultraviolet wavelengths. This enables them to power applications that cannot be supported...

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,...

Answering some common questions new users of optical design and analysis software have are “How accurate are the results?” or “Can I trust the results I get?” and discussing the importance of...

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.

Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VCSELs) revolutionized communications systems in the 1990s. As the technology improved, VCSELs began to be employed in sensing applications because of the...

In recent years, growth in multispectral and hyperspectral imaging has enabled new applications for vision system designers and expanded the range of imaging applications that can be addressed....

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...

An increasingly wide range of applications need to be able to function in harsh environments, not only on space missions but also here on Earth, in particle detectors, for example. It is important to...

A quantum cascade laser (QCL) is a type of semiconductor laser that operates based on the principles of quantum mechanics. It is a versatile and powerful device used for emitting coherent light in...

A confocal resonator, also known as a confocal cavity or confocal laser resonator, is a type of optical resonator configuration used in laser systems. The term confocal in this context refers to the...

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...

Gain-switching is a technique used in lasers to generate short pulses of light by modulating the gain of the laser medium. This method is distinct from Q-switching and mode-locking, two other common...

Extremely Compact Laser Module Packed with Functionality

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...

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...

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

A diode-pumped solid-state laser is a type of laser system that uses semiconductor diode lasers to pump energy into a solid gain medium, resulting in the generation of coherent light. This technology...

ProPhotonix offers OEMs a complete illumination solution for LED and Laser requirements. With more than 25 years’ experience in developing OEM LED systems and laser modules, ProPhotonix has...

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...

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...