The Laser Institute of America (LIA) will hold its inaugural Lasers for Manufacturing Event (LME) on September 27th and 28th in Chicago.
In order to help U.S. manufacturers to modernize and upgrade their technology and be competitive in the global economy, the Event is designed to fill a gap by providing designers and manufacturers everything they need to understand lasers and laser systems and how to employ them effectively and profitably. Continue reading
Spectra-Physics®, a Newport Corporation Brand, announces the company is celebrating 50 years of pioneering new laser technologies, products and solutions for industry and science. Notably, the company became the first commercial laser company in 1961, less than a year after the invention of the laser. Spectra-Physics will begin the celebration of this milestone year at SPIE’s Photonics West, January 25-27, 2011. Continue reading
Femtosecond laser opens up a wide range of applications in micro and macro areas thanks to a previously not attained mean output power of 1.1 kW.
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT have developed an amplification concept for femtosecond lasers (fs laser). As a result, they have been able to achieve mean power in the kilowatt range for the first time. The short pulses of the fs laser enable ultraprecise material processing. Thanks to the high mean power, the throughput in production can be increased significantly. Continue reading
Newport Corporation, a worldwide leader in laser and photonic solutions that Make, Manage and Measure Light®, introduces NSTRUCT™, an enhanced instrument management software platform created to simplify installation and to provide quicker and simpler instrument and experiment setup and use. Flexible and scalable, the instrument manager is designed with a set of features that create an effective single point control for all the users’ instrument needs. The NSTRUCT advanced communication layer provides a stable operating environment, even when using a multitude of instruments in both Windows 7 and XP. Continue reading
