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Lasers Shape a New Future for Additive Manufacturing of Metal Parts Dec 6, 2022 — Aerospace and automotive manufacturers initially adopted additive manufacturing (AM) methods as a means to rapidly prototype new parts or to fabricate more complex or consolidated components in a single step. They applied additive manufacturing to polymers, then composites, and eventually to more challenging materials such as metals and ceramics.
Photonics Spectra, Jan 2023
Beam Profiling Evolves to Keep Lasers in Line with New Applications JOEL P. WILLIAMS, ASSOCIATE EDITOR Lasers provide many different industries with greater efficiency, less waste, and higher precision, but they are not always as easy to fix as the machines they replace. A blunted drill bit is easier to observe and replace than an underperforming...
Photonics Spectra, Jan 2023
New Sensors and AI Optimize Laser Welding Oct 3, 2022 — Welding is an ancient technology. Five thousand years ago, Egyptians used it to join copper water pipes together. Over the centuries it evolved into an essential technology to fuse various types of metals as experienced welders learned to optimize...
Photonics Spectra, Nov 2022
Increased Component Density Plants Hurdles on the Road to Scaling the Production of PICs Sep 27, 2022 — When CEO Iñigo Artundo’s company began providing engineering solutions for photonic integration in 2011, the typical photonic integrated circuit (PIC) had five to 10 components. Today, VLC Photonics is seeing far more complex photonic...
Photonics Spectra, Nov 2022
As PIC Production Ramps Up, Fabricators Eye Alignment Options May 5, 2022 — The early 2000s saw the rapidly growing global appetite for data collide with the limitations of copper-based wire networks. The performance of these conventional data transmission systems declined dramatically at data bandwidths beyond 10 Gbit/s,...
Photonics Spectra, Jun 2022
Industrial Femtosecond Laser Advancements Power Next-Generation Applications May 2, 2022 — Commercial use of ultrashort-pulse lasers, and femtosecond pulsed lasers in particular, continues to rise, due to the ability of these sources to cleanly ablate material or tissue with minimal heating of and damage to surrounding areas, and with...
Photonics Spectra, Jun 2022
Lighting Advancements Add Muscle to Machine Vision Apr 29, 2022 — After years of investment and research, light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are cheaper and brighter than ever before, and they consume less power. With reliability measured in thousands of hours, LEDs are proving to be cost-effective solutions in both...
Photonics Spectra, Jun 2022
A New Generation of Femtosecond Lasers Packs Practicality with Precision Mar 31, 2022 — To say that femtosecond laser technology has undergone a transformation in recent years is an understatement that not only minimizes the huge strides made in technical terms, but especially so the improvements in accessibility. Complex tabletops...
Photonics Spectra, May 2022
Precision Optics Shape Both the Light and the Limits of High-Power Lasers Mar 3, 2022 — High-power lasers have become a standard and ubiquitous tool in many industrial applications, due, in part, to the precisely controllable energy that they provide. But “high power” can be a challenging term to parse, and it often needs...
Photonics Spectra, Apr 2022
Laser Shock Peening Fights Fatigue in Metal Parts Mar 2, 2022 — Laser shock peening is a process that adds beneficial residual stress points in materials commonly used to develop a wide range of parts and components. These residual stresses effectively increase the materials’ resistance to surface-related...
Photonics Spectra, Apr 2022
Advancements in Diode Lasers Fuel Automotive Lidar Jan 27, 2022 — Lidar for autonomous vehicles debuted in 2007 as an enabling sensor technology for robotaxis and robotruck development. Within the last five years, however, the technology has trended toward broader commercialization in mass-market passenger...
Photonics Spectra, Mar 2022
Dynamic Beam Lasers Reshape Materials Processing Applications Dec 29, 2021 — Automotive electrification is just one of the major trends redefining the requirements for high-volume materials processing in precision manufac­turing. From the need to align and connect battery layers, to the expanding deployment of additive metal...
Photonics Spectra, Feb 2022
Fiber Optic Sensors Are Wired for Growth with Infrastructure Improvements Dec 3, 2021 — In October 2021, a 40-year-old undersea pipeline off the coast of California ruptured, releasing more than 130,000 gallons of crude oil into the Pacific Ocean. The spill polluted the ecosystem, stifled local economic activities such as fishing and...
Photonics Spectra, Jan 2022
E-Mobility Manufacturing Powers Opportunities for Laser Welding Dec 2, 2021 — In 2017, research analysts at UBS Securities disassembled a Chevy Bolt, the world’s first mass-market electric vehicle (EV), and a Volkswagen Golf, Europe’s top-selling internal combustion engine (ICE) car. When the UBS team compared the...
Photonics Spectra, Jan 2022
Demand for MIR Photonics Rises on New Gas Analysis Applications Nov 29, 2021 — Real-time precision gas analysis is critical to a wide range of industries, including medical diagnostics, emissions monitoring, and semiconductor fabrication. The relatively simple molecular structure of most gases makes them ideal candidates for...
Photonics Spectra, Jan 2022
Integrated Photonics Sector Aims to Bridge Skills Gap Nov 8, 2021 — The challenge of finding, recruiting, training, and retaining talent is putting pressure on businesses in every photonics market segment, in all geographic regions. But the skills gap presents particular challenges for the industry’s more...
Photonics Spectra, Dec 2021
UV Lasers: Short in Wavelength, Long on Potential Nov 1, 2021 — For compact UV lasers, advancements in technology and applications could make the sky the limit — literally. When NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars in February, for example, it carried a deep UV laser from Photon Systems as part...
Photonics Spectra, Dec 2021
Accelerating the Manufacture and Repair of Micro-LED Displays Oct 27, 2021 — While LCD panels are passive displays that need backlight illumination, OLEDs and LEDs are active elements that eliminate the need for backlighting by emitting their own light. OLEDs have their own drawbacks compared to LEDs, most notably the...
Photonics Spectra, Dec 2021
A New Wavefront of Adaptive Optics Promises Improvements Oct 4, 2021 — Adaptive optics (AO) technology enables Earth-based telescopes to take the twinkle out of the stars. The technology also helps in detecting and reversing eye disease, it improves the throughput of laser-driven manufacturing, and it has enabled the...
Photonics Spectra, Nov 2021
Novel CMOS Technology Reboots Vision-Guided Robotics Sep 30, 2021 — A vision-guided robot (VGR) system can be defined as a robot equipped with one or multiple vision sensors that effectively give the machine a sense of sight. While “blind” robots may suffice for certain simple applications, they quickly...
Photonics Spectra, Nov 2021
Ultrashort-Pulse Lasers Power Options for Precise Machining Aug 31, 2021 — Laser technology has had a positive impact on a wide range of industrial manufacturing applications, from consumer electronics and clean energy to automotive and medical devices. Lasers have contributed to these applications by enabling the...
Photonics Spectra, Oct 2021
Laser Micromachining Fires Up the Next Little Thing Aug 3, 2021 — Driven by demand from automotive, electronics, medical devices, and other end markets, the micromachining market is on track to grow at a 6.9% compound annual growth rate over the next six years to reach a market value of $4 billion, according to a...
Photonics Spectra, Sep 2021
Spot Cooling Helps Industrial Lasers and Optics Stay on Point Jul 30, 2021 — The increasing demand in many end markets for advanced manufacturing systems that are able to increase production and cut costs have positioned laser systems as an important fabrication tool. High-powered lasers, such as CO2 sources, are used for...
Photonics Spectra, Sep 2021
Optical Glass Selection Is Not Always So Transparent a Choice Jul 28, 2021 — Optical designers have many glass types to choose from when developing assemblies for imaging applications. Typically, a variety of these material options is available to meet the desired design specifications of a partic­ular system. The challenge...
Photonics Spectra, Sep 2021
Ruggedization Future-Proofs Lens Designs Jul 13, 2021 — As machine vision applications have expanded rapidly beyond the controlled environments of the factory, so too has the need for ruggedized lens designs that are able to meet more diverse and nuanced requirements. This is not to say that no demand...
Vision Spectra, Sep 2021
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