By Eckhard Beyer and Achim Mahrle The high power laser market has been remarkably influenced by the introduction of high-brightness lasers, i.e., laser sources offering a high optical output power in combination with a high beam quality or a low beam parameter product, respectively. These features are primarily exhibited by fiber and disk laser systems, […]
Author: Steven Glover
Steven Glover is a proud member of the LIA staff. When he is not at work he is actively involved in several charitable efforts.LIA’s Laser U Releases New Laser Applications & Safety Course Modules for Flexible Continuing Education
ORLANDO, FL, Oct. 2, 2013 — The Laser Institute of America has added a dozen cutting-edge modules to Laser U, its innovative online laser education portal. Seven of the new courses come from LIA’s Laser Additive Manufacturing (LAM®) Workshop, while five more emerge from the biennial International Laser Safety Conference (ILSC®) held in Orlando in […]
Welding Characteristics of Foturan Glass Using Ultrashort Laser Pulses
By Isamu Miyamoto, Yasuhiro Okamoto, Kristian Cvecek, Michael Schmidt, Henry Helvajian While glass is widely used in different industrial field due to its excellent physical and chemical properties, there exist no reliable joining procedures of glass at the moment. We have developed a novel fusion welding procedure of glass that can weld glass even with […]
Local Laser Joining of Glass and Silicon
By Assi Hansen, Isamu Miyamoto, Tiina Amberla, Yasuhiro Okamoto One of the most employed material combinations in microtechnology is the glass-silicon pair. Since the huge growth of the microelectromechanical devices, sensors and micro-fluidic devices, bonding of this couple has become more and more critical issue. Many of these glass-silicon bonding processes, for example anodic bonding, […]
A Technical and Commercial Comparison of Fiber Laser and CO2 Laser Cutting
By John Powell, Alexander Kaplan Since the advent of commercial fiber and disk laser cutting machines, there has been a lot of controversy about the performance of these devices – particularly in comparison to their more established CO2 counterparts. In the early days, the sales staff promoting fiber technology would often declare that the new […]