Lasers Help Shrink and Sharpen Medical Devices
Product requirements and advances in lasers are leading to growing adoption of photonic manufacturing. In medical devices, smaller is often better – after all, implantable electronics, stents and other pieces of equipment can go into more places within the body if they are less intrusive. Other important device attributes are capability, cost and reliability. The last characteristic is vital because of how medical devices are used. “Many of our products are critical, life-susta...
Photonics Spectra, July 2013