The fast software enables users to do without expensive experiments and to find optimum process parameters even more eff…

A collaboration between NIST researchers and a private-sector firm has led to development of a commercial device to fill…

Under the three-phase Laser Weapon System Demonstrator contract, the company will design, produce, integrate, and suppor…

TRUMPF presented at the Blechexpo trade fair its productive machine for 2D laser cutting – the TruLaser 5030 fiber – featuring both new functions and an additional choice of laser power.

Among these features is the intelligent beam monitoring system – Smart Beam Control. It lends even greater reliability t…

Advance could create new class of lasers for possible use in aerospace and law enforcement

Researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have identified a new way to make a semi…

CylPerf™, short for cylinder perforation, is a graphical software utility for programming and processing cylindrical com…

The acquisition of Cobolt, a renowned supplier of compact and robust high performance lasers to analytical instrumentati…

The achievement paves the way for industrial production of femtosecond lasers with a compact construction that are relia…

TRUMPF is expanding its line of machines for the additive manufacturing of metal components – plug-and-play solutions for both beginners and pros

All the components are integrated into the compact housing of the TruPrint 1000: the laser, optics, process enclosure, f…

University of Washington researchers are the first to solve a decades-old puzzle — figuring out how to make a laser refr…

Lasers could heat materials to temperatures hotter than the centre of the Sun in only 20 quadrillionths of a second, acc…

The RGH Series lasers are compact industrial grade picosecond lasers with Total Pulse Control and Burst Mode operation a…

The off-the-shelf product incorporates both the sophisticated Kerr-lens mode-locked Ti:sapphire oscillator and a state-o…

Harnessing Element Six’s Low Absorption Single Crystal Diamond Laser Achieves 20 Times More Power than Previous Highest Power

Leveraging Element Six’s low absorption single crystal chemical vapor deposited diamond, the research team developed a l…

Femtosecond lasers enable precise, cost-effective high-frequency measurements and could replace standard electrical devices in the future

At the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) a VNA has been developed which utilizes optoelectronic techniques bas…

Light, resource-efficient and at the same time robust - what is good for lightweight construction in the automobile indu…

Berkeley Lab Researchers Demonstrate Atomically Thin Excitonic Laser

An important step towards next-generation ultra-compact photonic and optoelectronic devices has been taken with the real…

At FABTECH, North America’s largest trade show for metal processing technology, Jenoptik will demonstrate its laser machine series for 3D metal cutting.

The system concept of the JENOPTIK-VOTAN® BIM series is based on a beam guide inside the robot. This allows using laser…

To create a 2 micron fibre-laser, light is usually injected into an optical-fibre ring containing a gain region which am…

Compact and Robust

Achieving this with semiconductor laser diodes requires the use of external beam-shaping elements or homogenizers. Diffu…