Editor’s Picks

  1. Newport Introduces XPS Optimized G-Code Conversion Software 8/14/2012

    Newport Corporation, a worldwide leader in laser and photonic solutions that Make, Manage and Measure Light, introduces the XPS-GCODE Conversion Software,  a simple and intuitive new interface that works with Newport’s XPS Universal Motion Controller. 

  2. Autoliv And BMW To Present Night Vision System In Car 9/20/2005
    Autoliv Inc. has together with The BMW Group developed a system that will enable drivers to see up to 300 meters at night compared to not even 100 meters with existing low-beam headlights...
  3. New Optical Coatings Processes From JDSU Improve Light Sensing Capabilities In Consumer Electronics 1/25/2011
    JDSU recently announced new micro lithography or patterning processes for JDSU optical coatings that contribute to improved light sensing intelligence in a wide variety of consumer electronic products.
  4. New Fiber To Fiber Coupler With Power Handling Capability Of 12 Kw (CW) 6/27/2017

    A new Fiber to Fiber Coupler (FFC) from Coherent (formerly Optoskand AB) enables the use of replaceable, process fiber optic cables so that integral components of the fiber laser – most notably the feeding fiber – are not exposed to opto-mechanical damage, even in harsh industrial processes.  Damage to the feeding fiber means long and often costly down time.  But the new FFC enables the use of a separate fiber interface, and this separate delivery fiber can be exchanged in minutes in the case of damage.

  5. NASA Aeronautics Research Tests New Tool For Early Wildfire Detection 10/7/2014

    NASA’s research in unmanned aerial systems (UAS) may soon provide a means for early detection and mitigation of fires in the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, a nearly 50,000-square-acre region centered on the Virginia-North Carolina border.

  6. Ideas Expo 2022: Lasers vs. Weeds - LZH Shows The Agriculture Of The Future 6/27/2022

    Weed or crop? At the LZH stand in Hall 9 at this year's IdeasExpo, visitors can test whether they have what it takes to be the ultimate weed hunter. Because the LZH is working on using lasers to fight weeds in a more sustainable and plant-friendly way in the future.

  7. New DILAS SF1000/400 Fiber-Coupled Diode Laser System Delivers Up To 1kW 11/14/2012

    DILAS, the diode laser company, announces recently the next generation fiber-coupled system which was developed to suit the needs for volume production in industrial applications.

  8. Cree Nets $17.1 Million in Asian Contracts 11/3/1998
    Cree Research Inc. announced bookings of $17.1 million from Asian customers...
  9. All Segments Of First Light-Generating System Installed In World's Brightest X-Ray Laser 3/1/2016

    In the metropolitan area of Hamburg, the installation of the 35 segments of the first of three X-ray light producing components of the European XFEL has been completed. Set into one of the facility’s tunnels, the segments are the core part of three systems called undulators, which are each up to 210 metres long and will produce X-ray laser light exceeding the intensity of conventional X-ray sources by a billion times. 

  10. Doing Photon Upconversion A Solid—Crystals That Convert Light To More Useful Wavelengths 11/29/2021

    Solid-solution organic crystals have been brought into the quest for superior photon upconversion materials, which transform presently wasted long-wavelength light into more useful shorter wavelength light.