Arnold to Manage IPG’s Midwest Sales

Blue laser specialist NUBURU appointed Brian Knaley CFO. Knaley has served as CEO at three public companies and has more than 25 years of experience. Most recently he served as CFO for CEA...

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...

Lutz Labisch will become president and CEO of TRUMPF Inc., the North American subsidiary of TRUMPF GmbH + Co. KG, effective March 1. Labisch will be responsible for production, sales, and service of...

Researchers from the Institute of Intense Lasers and Applications (CELIA) at the University of Bordeaux have developed a glass micro-drilling method using a femtosecond laser operating in...

The TrueLase Yb 20/400-3kW Optical Fiber from OFS Fitel LLC is designed to meet the growing demand in industrial applications for higher power and cost-effective multi-kW fiber lasers. The...

The single-frequency, 308-nm fiber-based UV laser from AdValue Photonics Inc. emits 3 W of average power with a diffraction limited beam. The device enables reliable, high-performance operation...

The Spectra-Physics® Quasar® UV80 laser from MKS Instruments Inc. is a high-power, high-pulse UV wavelength fiber laser. The device offers >80-W UV, >400-µJ pulse energies,...

Pump laser diodes from Coherent Corp. offer 65 W of output power with low operating current to support fiber lasers in industrial and consumer applications. The 65-W laser diodes are based on a...

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...

Early fiber lasers were inefficient and limited to low powers, until more effective methods emerged to deliver the pump light into the cladding. Valentin Gapontsev, founder and CEO of IPG Photonics,...

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...

Over 60 years have passed since the first demonstration of a laser in 1960. After the initial spark of interest, lasers were for a while categorized as “a solution waiting for a problem,”...

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,...

Dynamic Beam Lasers are Coherent Beam Combined Fiber Lasers which enable new parameters for welding, drilling, metal additive manufacturing, and surface treatment. Dynamic Beam Lasers provide...

This paper introduces a series of compact laser vibrometer products developed by OmniSensing Photonics which are based on its integrated laser sensing platform. These laser vibrometers have wide...

Need to laser weld thick materials, asymmetric parts, dissimilar materials, or coated metals? Are spatter, cracking, or porosity defects impacting your weld quality? Learn how dynamic beam shaping...

Marco Mendes of IPG Photonics discusses recent laser processing advancements enabled by a new generation of ultrashort-pulsewidth (USP) fiber lasers, and how new fiber-based technologies enable...

First realized in 1994 by Bell Labs, quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) enable rapid advancements in academic, industrial, and defense applications. QCLs are now available in a diverse range of commercial...

There are 422 million people worldwide living with diabetes1, and current methods for monitoring blood glucose levels are painful, invasive, and can potentially require surgical procedures....

Machine vision provides imaging-based automatic inspection and analysis for many modern industrial applications. This webinar will give you a general overview of machine vision system design...

A characteristic of laser output, calculated by dividing the speed of light by the linewidth of the laser beam. The temporal coherence length of different lasers thus varies from a few centimeters to...

A specific, right-angle prism having a transmission grating replicated on its hypotenuse face and used in applications requiring a system that can produce in-line viewing for one wavelength.

Metamerism that occurs when the geometry of illumination or viewing is changed.

The distance between the two eye pupils when the observer is viewing distant objects (normal = 62 mm).

HHV has a complete line of optics fabrication facility right from blank cutting/slicing, milling, lapping, single-double side polishing of windows, wedges, prisms, lenses, domes using semi-automatic,...

Tune into this month’s edition of Light Matters for the complete list of Photonics Media’s Industry Beacon award winners. We’ll also introduce you to an Industry Beacon in the Educator category, and...

In this month’s Light Matters Extra, we take you to the Springfield Technical Community College campus and introduce you to Professor Nick Massa, who has been teaching Optics and Photonics there for...

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...

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,...

DK Photonics is a leading manufacturer of innovative and high quality optical passive components. We provide complete and integrated solutions from 400~2100nm. DK Photonics produces a large array of...

CSRayzer Optical Technology is an ONE-STOP Optical devices supplier, offering Acousto-Optic Modulators, Optical Faraday Rotators & Isolators, Fiber Optic Components, MEMS, Laser Diode Modules,...

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