As lasers meet precision challenges, costs are lowered and new applications abound.
HANK HOGAN, CONTRIBUTING EDITOR
The demands on lasers grow as the need for precision in manufacturing and other applications increases. In general, lasers enable processes that cannot be performed economically in any other way — such as drilling holes, selectively removing material, or texturing a surface. Lasers also allow novel methods of imaging.
Such uses may require a variety of laser advancements, however, including shorter pulse width, higher repetition rate, varying wavelengths, greater power, better beam
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