Ultrashort-Pulsed Lasers Ramp Up the Power

Marine oil spills can have disastrous consequences for ocean ecosystems. Existing methods for cleaning up oil spills are costly and inefficient and underscore the need for environmentally friendly...

The short, regular pulses of femtosecond lasers are put to effective use in numerous applications, including laser surgery, micromachining, microscopy, and spectroscopy. Free-space optics...

Femtosecond (fs) fiber oscillators are a standard technology used to generate fs laser pulses. They offer a compact design, outstanding performance, and are cost-effective to use. However, the...

Laser welding finds its place in fields such as electromobility (e-mobility), aerospace, ship and rail transport, construction, the energy sector, semiconductor, consumer electronics, medical device...

The Satsuma X from Amplitude is a femtosecond laser designed to meet requirements in percussive glass drilling, silicon cutting, stainless steel texturing, and medical applications. The laser has an...

Optical fibers are among the hidden champions of our time. Be it as a communication fiber for the internet or as a power transmission fiber in industrial material processing or minimally invasive...

The Jasper Micro compact femtosecond laser from Fluence Technology is air-cooled and compact for integration in limited space. Pulse duration is tunable from <270 fs to 8 ps, and optionally...

The ELMO 780 XHP from Menlo Systems is a high-power, industry-grade femtosecond erbium fiber laser that can be used in applications such as multi-photon microscopy and 3D nano printing. Delivering...

Excimers are pulsed gas lasers that deliver high output power and pulse energies in the ultraviolet and deep-ultraviolet wavelengths. This enables them to power applications that cannot be supported...

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,”...

In the three decades since its introduction, the CO2 laser has become the workhorse of industrial lasers. Today it is available in a range of designs and sizes with output powers of 20 kW and more....

Finding the ideal ultra-fast laser source for a multiphoton imaging setup is not trivial. It is a fine balance between peak power, pulse energy and laser wavelength. In this white paper we show that...

Progress in Laser Processing stems from advances in laser technology as well as the high-performance motion control and automation system directing the beam and/or moving the parts to be processed...

Everything you need to know about soldering, mounting, thermal management, drive current, environment, and more, regarding extending the lifetime of your laser diodes.

OEM dpss laser from lumispot tech, in this file, we mentioned the datasheet of the cw and qcw diode pumped solid state lasers, including its features, working principle and applications.

Dynamic Beam Lasers (DBLs) are fiber lasers based on Coherent Beam Combining (CBC) whose operational properties offer a set of parameters that did not previously exist in lasers. DBLs open new...

The development of laser welding technology has seen significant advancements in recent years. With the introduction of dynamic beam lasers based on coherent beam combining (CBC), new possibilities...

Automotive electrification is one of many major trends driving the evolution of high-volume laser processing systems for precision manufacturing. Applications ranging from the alignment and...

This presentation shines a spotlight on the transformative laser technology known as coherent beam combining (CBC). While this technology has been known for decades, it only recently has been...

A femtosecond laser is a type of laser that emits ultrashort pulses of light with durations on the order of femtoseconds, where one femtosecond is equal to 10-15 seconds. These lasers are capable of...

Lithium triborate (LiB3O5), commonly abbreviated as LBO, is a nonlinear optical crystal widely used in various applications involving frequency conversion of laser light. It is valued for its...

A strip or annulus of glass coated with a semitransparent material such as inconel. The coating thickness, and as a result its transmission, varies linearly as a function of distance. The neutral...

An excimer laser is a type of ultraviolet laser that emits short pulses of light in the ultraviolet spectrum. The term excimer is derived from excited dimer, reflecting the nature of the gain medium...

FIREFLY3D is Novanta’s next generation 3-axis scan head designed for Laser Powder Based Fusion (LPBF) machines in additive manufacturing applications. The FIREFLY3D is an enclosed, compact solution...

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...

Chunlei Guo, from the High-Intensity Femtosecond Laser Laboratory in the Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester, discusses his work in laser processing, leading to the discovery of highly...

2-photon fluorescence microscopy has become a key technology in biological imaging in neuroscience enabling three-dimensional, noninvasive studies of the neuronal structure and activity on the...

A femtosecond laser is a type of laser that emits ultrashort pulses of light with durations on the order of femtoseconds, where one femtosecond is equal to 10^-15 seconds. These lasers are capable of...

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

Established in 1985, OZ Optics is a leading worldwide supplier of fiber optic components, test equipment and sensors. OZ Optics manufactures its products in three locations, Ottawa (Canada),...

The LaCroix name is synonymous with quality precision optics. Since 1947, three generations of family leadership have guided LaCroix Precision Optics to become the premier precision optics...

OHARA manufactures more than 130 environmentally safe optical glass types, free of both lead and arsenic. More than 300 tons of optical glass are melted per month, available in the following forms of...