Editor’s Picks

51. Smart Light - Glass Diode Laser Optics For High-Volume Applications 3/21/2019

    For the first time ever, high-grade glass laser optics are now available for price-sensitive high-volume applications such as LIDAR and ID sensors thanks to a new production method. LIMO GmbH, a maker of high-precision micro-optics for laser systems, has become the world’s first manufacturer to successfully process large 300 mm x 300 mm glass wafers and use the wafers to fabricate cost-effective micro-optics.

52. Food Processing Equipment Manufacturers Cutting Production Steps With Fiber Laser Systems 2/11/2009
    As demand increases in the food processing machinery industry, so does the need to use technology to find more efficient ways to manufacture the processing machines. Most of the equipment for the food processing machinery industry is made from thin stainless steel which is cut and then processed.
53. Discovered: Optimal Magnetic Fields For Suppressing Instabilities In Tokamaks 9/10/2018

    Fusion, the power that drives the sun and stars, produces massive amounts of energy. Scientists here on Earth seek to replicate this process, which merges light elements in the form of hot, charged plasma composed of free electrons and atomic nuclei, to create a virtually inexhaustible supply of power to generate electricity in what may be called a “star in a jar.”

54. Saving Energy With A Spot Of Silver 5/15/2017

    Tomorrow’s computers will run on light, and gold nanoparticle chains show much promise as light conductors. Now LMU scientists have demonstrated how tiny spots of silver could markedly reduce energy consumption in light-based computation.

55. Jenoptik Reports Growing Demand For Gallium Phosphide Microoptics 2/1/2013

    Microlenses, microlens arrays, and diffractive optics are used in medical applications for homogenization of laser beams for laser eye surgery and aesthetic skin treatment, for creating multi-spot arrays for ophthalmic diagnostics, for collimating and shaping laser beams for surgical applications, and for imaging applications such as optical coherence tomography and scanning confocal microscopy.

56. Unravelling The Atomic And Nuclear Structure Of The Heaviest Elements 2/22/2017

    Little is known about the heaviest, radioactive elements in Mendeleev’s table. But an extremely sensitive technique involving laser light and gas jets makes it possible for the very first time to gain insight into their atomic and nuclear structure.

57. Magnetic Fields Make The Excitons Go 'Round 9/21/2014

    A major limitation in the performance of solar cells happens within the photovoltaic material itself: When photons strike the molecules of a solar cell, they transfer their energy, producing quasi-particles called excitons — an energized state of molecules.

58. Laser Photonics Completes Installation Of Cutting-Edge Pill Drilling System At Customer Facility 12/2/2024

    Laser Photonics Corporation (“LPC”), a leading global developer of industrial laser systems for cleaning and other material processing applications, announced today that it and its recently acquired subsidiary, Control Micro Systems, Inc. have completed installing a pill drilling system at a customers facility where it will be used to streamline pill production and manufacturing.

59. Applied Optics Center (AOC) Acquired By Optex Systems 11/14/2014

    Applied Optics Center (AOC), formerly a division of L-3 Communications’ Warrior Systems Sector, has been acquired by Optex Systems Holdings, Inc. Applied Optics Center designs and manufactures extremely complex thin film coatings and optical assemblies for a wide variety of commercial and defense applications and markets.

60. IPG Photonics Releases High-Power Lasers On New RI Platform 6/20/2025

    IPG Photonics Corporation (NASDAQ: IPGP), the global leader in fiber laser technology, has released new high-power lasers built on a new rack-integrated platform.