Since the first humans walked the earth, inventors have been transforming the way the average consumer lives and functions. For example, we can thank Willis Carrier for his invention of the air conditioner in 1902 and Charles Strite for his invention of the popup toaster in 1919. Since their initial creation, both inventions have become […]
Month: February 2016
Network with the Experts
During LIA’s Upcoming LAM Workshop By Michelle L. Stock Additive manufacturing has been creating buzz for some years, and is now on the threshold of becoming mainstream. According to a Pricewaterhouse Coopers survey of more than 100 manufacturing companies in 2014, 11 percent had already moved to volume production of 3D printed parts or products. […]
How Lasers Helped Researchers Detect Gravitational Waves
For the first time, scientists were able to detect the existence of gravitational waves. These waves, or “ripples in space-time,” were first predicted in Einstein’s theory of general relativity. Over 100 years later, with the help of laser technology, the prediction has proven to be true. The waves were detected by LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave […]
2016 LIA Officers
Meet LIA’s New President & Board of Directors By Betsy Marone LIA’s 2016 President, Lin Li graduated from Dalian University with his B.Sc. in Automatic Control before earning his Ph.D. and DIC in Laser Engineering from London University’s Imperial College in 1989. With a research focus in high power laser engineering, Prof. Li worked as […]
Dausinger + Giesen GmbH: With new structure toward the future
Dausinger + Giesen GmbH (D+G) is a leading supplier of thin disk lasers as well as technology components needed to build disk lasers. D+G was founded by Prof. Dr. Friedrich Dausinger and Dr. Adolf Giesen. Both names are well connected to disk laser technology. In 1990 Friedrich Dausinger demanded the following laser specifications to be […]