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Controlling Weeds with Lasers
HANNOVER, Germany, March 13, 2012 — Weed growth can now be impaired using an exact carbon dioxide laser beam in the infrared range to destroy the plants’ sensitive growth centers, called meristems.
Laser Components Pens Contract
Feb 1, 2012 — Laser Components of Olching, Germany, has signed a distribution agreement with optical fibers manufacturer 12000%%Polymicro Technologies of Phoenix that applies to all German-speaking countries and territories. The agreement enables the company to...
Laser Ablation Could Benefit Precancerous Skin Lesions
CHICAGO, Nov. 23, 2011 — Carbon dioxide laser ablation could be used to treat a common precancerous skin lesion, lentigo maligna (LM), when surgery or radiation therapy is not feasible. “Carbon dioxide laser ablation may be advantageous because it treats large...
Laser Components Pens Contract with Polymicro Technologies
OLCHING, Germany, Nov. 23, 2011 — Laser Components signed a distribution agreement with optical fibers manufacturer Polymicro Technologies that applies to all German-speaking countries and territories. The agreement, which will commence Dec. 1, 2011, was signed by James P....
Coherent Opens Applications Center in Dieburg
DIEBURG, Germany, Oct. 5, 2011 — Coherent Inc. has opened a showroom and laser applications center for its laser machine tools at its Dieburg facility. The center offers access to the company’s Metabeam laser cutting machine, which is equipped with the Diamond E400 CO2...
Gigaphoton Confirms Debris Mitigation Technology
Sep 1, 2011 — Based in Oyama, Japan, Gigaphoton Inc., a lithography light source manufacturer, has confirmed its original technology for mitigating debris with magnetic fields for laser-produced plasma (LPP) light sources. It plans to push forward with a...
Historic Lasers Find New Life in Niche Applications
Sep 1, 2011 — With all the hoopla surrounding new high-brightness lasers such as disk and fiber, some think the death knell is sounding for CO2, lamp-pumped and other older, well-established types. However, the lack of a one-size-fits-all laser means these...
Laser Writes Storage into Graphite Sheets
HOUSTON, Aug. 4, 2011 — Using a CO2 laser, a Rice University team etched patterns of reduced graphite oxide (RGO) into thin sheets of graphite oxide (GO), effectively turning them into free-standing supercapacitors with the ability to store and release energy over...
Gigaphoton Confirms Debris Mitigation Technology
OYAMA, Japan, July 14, 2011 — Gigaphoton Inc., a lithography light source manufacturer, announced that it has confirmed its original technology for mitigating debris with magnetic fields for laser-produced plasma (LPP) light sources. It plans to push forward with a...
Fiber vs. Disk: Which Laser Will Make the Cut?
Jul 1, 2011 — Some in the industry say they see fiber continuing to make large gains in the manufacturing space, but others say don’t count thin-disk out. The boom in fiber lasers that began several years ago has led some to question whether there is still...
Photonics Turned Upside Down
Oct 1, 2010 — There are suppliers in the southern hemisphere of leading photonics-based technologies, as well as cases of innovative research. This Web Exclusive by Hank Hogan cites examples in Australia, South Africa, and Brazil.
High-Energy Laser Optics Require Coatings in Their Own League
Sep 1, 2010 — Sure, your laser pointer doesn’t have the power to punch through the wall, but high-fluence CO2 and other heavy-duty beasts of burden can carve through sheet metal, slice 1/4-in. steel into intricate shapes and drill smooth holes into parts...
JDSU, Amada Co-Develop New Fiber Laser
MILPITAS, Calif., Aug. 3, 2010 — JDSU announced that it has collaborated with Amada, a manufacturer of machine tools for metal fabrication, to develop a new high-power 4 kilowatt (kW) fiber laser. The fiber laser has been integrated into a new sheet metal cutting system that Amada...
Cut, Mark, Drill, Repeat
Aug 1, 2010 — Increasingly, the medical devices used to support good health and provide emergency and long-term care are not being designed to sit on a rack or table next to a patient’s hospital bed. Instead, they are being made small and light enough to be...
Laser facility launched for welding research
GEESTHACHT, Germany – A new facility complete with a semi-industrial laser system has been built at the GKSS Research Center in Geesthacht, in collaboration with Airbus Deutschland GmbH. According to professor Norbert Huber, head of material mechanics at GKSS, the center...
50 Years of the Laser Industry
Jun 7, 2010 — The relentless innovation that has always characterized the laser industry is now driven and firmly controlled by the needs of applications. In the technology’s infancy, the main goals were the discovery of new laser materials and the...
Laser cutting machine industry: Versatility is key
HAMBURG, Germany – The world market for laser cutting machines is expected to exceed $3.8 billion by the year 2015, according to a report from Global Industry Analysts Inc., based in San Jose, Calif. Released in February 2010, the publication is titled Laser Cutting...
Coherent Opens Laser Lab in Beijing
SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 20, 2010 — Laser maker Coherent Inc. said it has opened a new CO2 laser applications laboratory in Beijing to give its customers in the rapidly growing Chinese materials processing and microelectronics markets the ability to get quick feedback on the...
Let it shine the easy way: Laser polishing
AACHEN, Germany – Polishing by hand is not a very popular job – unless you own a classic car and give it a shine over the weekend. But in many industries, polished surfaces are a very necessary evil; for example, medical implants, various metallic products and optics...
Laser Photonics Taps New CEO
LAKE MARY, Fla., Feb. 24, 2010 -- Laser Photonics, a maker of fiber and CO2 laser equipment for material processing, announced that David Porter has been named CEO. Prior to joining Laser Photonics, Porter worked for more than six years with Harland Clarke Holdings Corp.,...
Laser Pioneers Honored at LaserFest Event
WASHINGTON, DC, Feb. 23, 2010 – The organizers of LaserFest, the celebration in 2010 commemorating the 50th anniversary of the first working laser, together with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American Hist...
Photonics West 2010 Sets Records
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 5, 2010 — SPIE Photonics West completed its debut at the Moscone Center in San Francisco last week with the final attendance count at 18,327, a record for the event. The new venue was a hit with attendees, and provided welcome room for growth. Both the...
Laser Trends: Lasers set to blaze new trails
Jan 4, 2010 — As the 50th-anniversary celebration of the invention of the laser begins, the industry itself is making a cautious rebound after months of belttightening, consolidation and reasses...
Catching photons in a bottle
MAINZ, Germany – Physicists at Johannes Gutenberg University have developed a bottle-shaped, monolithic microresonator that captures light and tunes it to arbitrary optical frequencies. To do this, they stretched a glass fiber until it reached about half the...
Laser ‘Tattooed’ Fruit Label
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3, 2009 – Those small and sometimes inconvenient sticky labels on produce may eventually be replaced by laser etching, a new technology being tested by the Agricultural Research Service and University of Florida that puts tattooes on grapefruit and other...
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