December 31st marks the end of a 3-year certification maintenance (CM) cycle for over 150 certified medical laser safety officers (CMLSOs), plus another 30 certified laser safety officers (CLSOs). To those CMLSOs and CLSOs, now is the time to record your activities for the past three years and submit your documentation and recertification fee!
Month: December 2009
LIA Corporate Member Profile – RPMC Lasers, Inc.
What year were you founded in? 1996 … but for the first few years, the company was our avocation and we really came to it full time in 2004. What is your company mission/philosophy? Offer our customers high quality advice on laser diode products and dpss, lamp-pumped and fiber lasers!
New Excimer Laser Offers Lowest Cost/Watt for UV Micromachining
The new LEAP excimer laser from Coherent Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) (Nasdaq: COHR) offers an unsurpassed combination of output power, low purchase price and economical operating cost for micromachining applications in microelectronics and medical device manufacturing. In particular, the LEAP is primarily intended for cost sensitive, throughput critical micro-manufacturing tasks such as for small and […]
OP-TEC Industry Survey – 2,100 New Photonics Technicians Needed over the Next Year in the U.S.
Dan Hull, Executive Director of the National Center for Optics and Photonics Education (OP-TEC), has announced the official release of the survey results from its 2009 industry survey of U.S. photonics technician employers. The survey, conducted at the University of North Texas Survey Research Center, has identified more than 2,100 current jobs for photonics technicians […]
Newport Introduces New Series of Thermopile Detectors
Newport Corporation, a worldwide leader in laser and photonic solutions that Make, Manage and Measure LightSM introduces three new additions to the Newport 818P series of thermopile detectors, the fan-cooled 818P-500-55, the water-cooled 818P-3KW-060 and the high-sensitivity 818P-001-12NIR. Newport is meeting more demanding customer requirements with these updated sensors, one of which is capable of […]