Materials Processing News
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Ultrashort-Pulse Fiber Laser Reaches Unprecedented Performance At Cornell
6/27/2017
Cornell University researchers have engineered a new kind of environmentally-stable fiber laser that generates high-power ultrashort light pulses, opening new possibilities and applications for the fiber source. By Daryl Lovell
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BYU Researchers Develop Flexible Glass For Microfluidic Nanodevices
3/27/2017
Researchers at Brigham Young University (BYU) have developed a new method to fabricate flexible nano-scale membranes using surface micromachining and silica thin films.
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Photonic Doping Makes Metamaterials Fabrication Easier
3/13/2017
University of Pennsylvania engineers have developed a new technique called photonic doping to design and more easily fabricate electromagnetic metamaterials.
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Novel 2D Light Source Generates Photon Pairs
10/31/2016
Physicists from Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg (JMU) have designed a new light source based on transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) monolayers that emit photon pairs, which makes it suitable to carry encrypted information.
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Coherent’s New Generation Of High Power, Industrial, Picosecond Lasers
4/15/2016
Coherent offers a new generation of industrial picosecond lasers featuring high performance and exceptional reliability in a lower cost platform to make a wide range of precision materials processing economically viable. The HyperRapid NX product range includes 1064 nm output models with pulse energies as high as 250 μJ (typically with 10 ps pulse duration), at repetition rates up to 2 MHz.
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New Green Nanosecond Lasers Increase Materials Processing Throughput
3/24/2016
Coherent, Inc. recently announced the expansion of their AVIA family of lasers with new, green output models that offer an unmatched combination of power, reliability, and compact size for a range of precision materials processing applications. The new AVIA NX products are q-switched, diode-pumped, solid-state lasers that deliver up to 65W of average power at 532 nm from a laser head that measures less than two feet (587 mm) in length.
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2.5kW Fiber-Coupled Diode Laser System For Materials Processing Applications
9/4/2014
DILAS, the diode laser company, now offers a higher power fiber-coupled diode laser system for materials processing applications with output power of 2.5kW at 980nm.
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Highest Power Ultrafast Laser For High Throughput Materials Processing
3/4/2013
Coherent, Inc. has expanded its family of industrial ultrafast lasers with the new Talisker 1000 series. This new series of high power picosecond lasers is designed for high-throughput, precision materials processing applications in the semiconductor, solar (photovoltaics), medical devices, consumer electronics and automotive industries. The Talisker 1000 has three single wavelength versions available - near infrared (1064 nm), green (532 nm) and ultraviolet (355 nm) - all at 1000 kHz.
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Mobius Photonics Introduces Next-Generation Fiber-Based Laser Sources For Materials Processing
1/15/2013
Mobius Photonics, an innovative producer of short-pulsed fiber laser sources (IR, UV and visible wavelengths), announces the introduction of "G2" -- a family of short-pulsed, high-power, high-repetition-rate fiber laser sources that can produce either ultraviolet (UV), green or infrared (IR) output.