With its first lasing, the European XFEL reaches the last big milestone before the official opening

At first lasing, the laser had a repetition rate of one pulse per second, which will later increase to 27 000 per second

New processes on TRUMPF 2D laser cutting machines – 70 percent less cutting gas – Doubling of sheet throughput

The Highspeed Eco process relies on a patented nozzle fitted with a sleeve that forces the gas directly into the kerf, e…

High-dynamics scan head offers clear process advantages for laser welding and cutting

The new welDYNA scan head unites the advantages of higher laser powers and maximum dynamics. Considerable process benefi…

The researchers at ETH use a very similar method in which they create a second frequency comb, whose frequencies have a…

New research could make lasers emitting a wide range of colors more accessible and open new applications from communicat…

The core of the satellite is a light radar (LIDAR) that sends light pulses into the atmosphere and determines the methan…

Laser-written Three-dimensional Microstructures Can Be Erased and Rewritten, if Desired – Very Important Paper Publication in Angewandte Chemie

Direct laser writing means that a computer-controlled, focused laser beam generates the structure in a photoresist simil…

Normally, a diver can cut about 20 meters a day, which corresponds to a speed of about 0.07 meters per minute. In the pr…

Scientists at Göttingen University take images of bound light packages in real-time

Besides the great strides made in the field of laser physics, the results are transferrable to numerous other complex sy…

100 times faster than existing technology simply with an infinity mirror

The new technique not only can resolve the current challenge to meet the ever-increasing demand for speed and throughput…

3D-Micromac succeeds with the industrialization of its half-cell cutting process by thermal laser separation for solar cell separation

The microCELL TLS systems use Thermal Laser Separation for cleaving solar cells into half-cells. This process provides a…

Specifically, OBIS CellX is a compact one-box source in which the lasers, electronic control and beam conditioning optic…

The approach operates purely electronically, without any moving parts

The team from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science developed a specialized artificial materi…

A simple example of such processes is welding. Previously, the research team developed a monitor prototype based on a si…

In a world-leading study researchers at Macquarie University have proven a method for multiplying laser power using diam…

The researchers said the latest study will provide accurate operating conditions for printing with metal directly from a…

The Cobolt Twist™ is a continuous-wave single-frequency diode pumped laser (DPL) operating at 457.0 nm in a perfect qual…

The Beam Combined Fiber Laser is the Most Powerful Laser of Its Type Yet Demonstrated

In testing earlier this month, the Lockheed Martin laser produced a single beam of 58 kW, representing a world record fo…

The UM-2 is based on RMI’s UM-1 technology, but is now offered in an all-in-one system that is small enough to

Researchers from Stuttgart are paving the way for a new generation of semiconductor lasers

After hours of adjustment work it flashed and the membrane laser was operating. A strong light beam in the red spectral…