Affecting millions of people annually, food poisoning by consumption of contaminated products is a significant health issue. Typically, retailers and manufacturers rely on “sell by” and “good until” dates, as a way to measure the safe shelf life of the things we eat. This is mostly due to the fact that monitoring the bacteria and […]
Lasers in the News
Patricia Bath and the Laserphaco Probe
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Industrial Laser Growth
A Bright Spot during the International Year of Light By Michelle L. Stock, Ph.D. The worldwide market for lasers in 2015 was steady in terms of overall revenue growth in 2015 according to Allen Nogee, a Senior Analyst at Strategies Unlimited and an expert on photonics markets. While in early 2015 he predicted a growth […]