Adding Fiber Pays Off for Industry
For Electro Scientific Industries Inc. (ESI) of Portland, Ore., getting fiber into its diet has been one key to success. Among other things, the company makes a line of micromachining systems for the semiconductor, flat panel display, photovoltaic and other industries. Some of these systems are powered by fiber lasers, a technology in which a fiber doped by rare earth elements, and typically pumped by a diode, acts as the lasing medium. The choice of when to go with this approach over an...
Photonics Spectra, July 2010