As additive manufacturing with lasers gains a foothold in a disparate range of industries, it could become known more for what it subtracts, for instance:
Production costs, fuel costs, retooling issues, part weight, lead time between design and finished product and even certification paperwork. All are being dramatically reduced as laser-additive manufacturing grows more prevalent in producing everything from highly customized consumer and medical products to vital automotive and aviation parts.
DES PLAINES, IL, March 13, 2012 – The Laser Institute of America (LIA), in conjunction with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Alliance partner and the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) invites communities, businesses and individuals to support North American Occupational Safety and Health (NAOSH) Week this May 6-12 in an effort to enhance workplace safety. The annual NAOSH Week and the May 9, 2012, Occupational Safety and Health Professional (OSHP) Day aim to raise awareness about the importance of being safe at work. Its 2012 theme is “Safety: What Every Business Needs” will focus on providing small and mid-size businesses with key workplace safety resources.
Mainz, Germany, January 24, 2012 – DILAS, the diode laser company, has increased their range of high-brightness, fiber-coupled diode laser modules based on tailored bar (T-Bar) architecture. With this new addition, the fiber-coupled modules are now capable of delivering up to 200 watts output power from a 200µm (NA 0.22) fiber at 976nm.
The tailored bar architecture is an innovative breakthrough by DILAS and is specifically designed to achieve high-brightness output while maximizing fiber coupling efficiency for an overall high-efficiency product. The T-Bar was developed so that an automated active optics alignment can be utilized for efficient fiber coupling into a 200µm fiber. This device is a monolithic multi-emitter source which takes advantage of handling multiple emitters during each individual manufacturing step to lower complexity and enhance reproducibility of the beam quality and hence the fiber coupling.
These T-Bar fiber-coupled modules are ideal for research and development usage in direct diode applications as well as for fiber and solid-state laser pumping.
