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June’s Featured Corporate Member – AdValue Photonics, Inc.

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As the leading manufacturer of 2 µm fiber lasers for the scientific, materials processing and medical markets, AdValue Photonics, Inc. develops and manufactures high quality, innovative and cost-effective fiber lasers, fiber amplifiers, fiber-based broadband light sources and other components. Recognized for continuously offering groundbreaking products, AdValue Photonics, Inc. developed proprietary technology that centers on its innovative glass and fiber design, as well as production capability. Tailoring glass composition with doping concentration and fiber geometry, this technology optimizes not only the performance of the company’s lasers, but their reliability as well.

Founded in 2007, this privately-owned company is headquartered in Tuscon, Arizona, where its 30 employees make up both the development and manufacturing teams. With these two teams co-located in Tucson, they are able to work effectively with one another to quickly customize laser solutions that meet the exact requirements of the company’s customers.

Since its inception, AdValue Photonics, Inc. has developed and manufactured innovative and high-quality fiber lasers, amplifiers, broadband light sources and fiber isolators. Specializing in 1, 1.55 and 2 micron wavelengths, as well as high peak power and high pulse energy, the company also encompasses in-house capability of both laser glass and fiber manufacturing. The product categories of AdValue Photonics, Inc. range from CW and pulsed (ns, ps, fs pulses) fiber lasers to broadband light sources and single frequency narrow line width fiber lasers. The company’s products fulfill a variety of applications in the industry, including LIDAR, frequency conversion, mid-IR generation, materials processing, laser surgery and applications in numerous other fields.

The products put forth by AdValue Photonics, Inc. are often revolutionary. For example, with emission wavelengths in the 2 µm region, the company’s fiber lasers and associated products produce a wide range of optical characteristics that the commercial market previously lacked. With access to these products, scientists and engineers – both in academia and the laser industry at large – are able to utilize tools that help them make new discoveries. AdValue Photonics’ vast selection of fiber lasers is used by customers in order to conduct groundbreaking research in fields ranging from nonlinear optics, optical frequency conversion and materials studies, to biomedical imaging, laser-tissue interaction and laser research.

Though the company’s products all prove integral to customer success in the industry, its line of 2 Micron Q-Switched Fiber Laser, AP-QS1-MOD, is considered the most important product line. This nanosecond pulsed fiber laser has a wavelength near 2 microns which, when utilized, can support new application development in materials processing. Users can choose the pulse width, which ranges from ~20 ns to ~200 ns, while reaching a peak power of up to 10kW, all with single-mode beam quality. To allow for system integration convenience, AdValue Photonics, Inc. terminates the output delivery fiber cable with a small, light collimator head. Customers utilizing this technology have found success in the development of processing techniques with plastics, polymers and semiconductors, in addition to other applications.

A member of Laser Institute of America (LIA) since 2013, AdValue Photonics, Inc. appreciates the organization’s dedication to keeping members informed of the latest industry news. In addition, the company makes use of LIA’s networking opportunities, taking part in the array of conferences and shows offered throughout the year.

For more information, visit www.advaluephotonics.com.

Lincoln Laser Company – May’s Featured Corporate Member

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Lincoln Laser Company, a leader in the engineering and manufacturing of laser beam delivery and steering systems, is continuously recognized for its dedication to expertise and excellence. Developing smart and precise laser beam delivery systems, the company’s team of engineers, integrators and manufacturing experts work with customers throughout the entire process – from design and prototypes to production – in order to ensure customers’ needs are met. With an ISO 9001:2008 certification, Lincoln Laser Company provides customers with the highest quality products that repeatedly exceed their expectations. Renowned for its polygon mirrors, motors and scan heads, Lincoln Laser Company’s wide range of products are utilized in industries around the globe, including the food inspection, biotech and semi-conductor industries.

Founded in 1972 by David Lincoln, heir to the Lincoln Electric Family, Lincoln Laser Company is now owned by the GSI Group. In Phoenix, AZ, the company – consisting of nearly 70 employees who span five departments – has spent over 40 years as the preferred ISO-certified supplier for leading companies in the laser industry.

Since its inception, Lincoln Laser Company has been known for its polygon mirrors and motors, which remains its most popular product line. However, the company has expanded this original line, not only offering a full line of standard, custom and semi-custom polygon mirrors and motors, but also offering assemblies and full-featured high-speed Polygon scan heads, used for high-speed reading, writing, scanning, ablating, cutting and more. These scan heads, which provide a faster reading than their galvo counterparts, produce a line scan with a fixed scan angle, as well as full X-Y capability. With 40 years of experience in the manufacture and production of these polygonal scan heads, Lincoln Laser Company’s staff of engineers can utilize their extensive knowledge to create custom designs for customers with varying needs. From medical imaging and laser marking to film inspection and large scale metrology, the systems designed by Lincoln Laser Company’s expert engineers serve customers in a variety of applications throughout numerous industries.

As a force in the laser industry in particular, Lincoln Laser Company repeatedly answers the call for new technology as the industry grows and expands. Over the last five years, Lincoln Laser Company has noticed the industry’s call for high-speed scanning to be used with high-speed Pulse on Demand (POD) lasers. To answer this demand, the company continues to produce its high-speed polygon scan heads, which fulfill numerous user applications within the laser industry. In addition, Lincoln Laser Company has been working on the production of a line of high-speed polygon scan heads for high-speed Pulse on Demand (POD) Nano-, Femto- and Picosecond lasers. This work carries on Lincoln Laser Company’s tradition of providing its customers with the best products available to meet a wide range of laser application needs.

A member of Laser Institute of America (LIA) since 1974, Lincoln Laser Company enjoys taking part in the organization’s events, which further help the company remain an active member of the laser technology community.

For more information, visit www.lincolnlaser.com.

Electro-Optics Technology – April’s Featured Corporate Member

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An industry leader, Electro-Optics Technology is recognized for its innovative solutions to optical feedback, beam delivery and pulse detection. Committed to providing customers with a competitive advantage in today’s marketplace, the company continuously supplies the global laser industry with enabling components and diagnostic equipment to meet the needs of manufacturers and users of high power laser systems. With a focus on OEM and custom applications, Electro-Optics Technology’s expert staff of engineers and technicians work closely with customers through all phases of the production process. The company’s ability to meet critical customer specifications – ensured by its facilities, equipment and quality systems – keep Electro-Optics Technology at the top of its field.

In 1987, owner and CEO Dave Scerbak founded Electro-Optics Technology in Silicon Valley, before moving the company to its current home in Traverse City, MI, in 1992. Here, Electro-Optics Technology’s 90 employees span six departments: Sales & Marketing, Production, Custom Solutions, Engineering, Quality and Shipping/Logistics. The company’s Custom Solutions department – responsible for the design and manufacturing of custom products – guarantees that customers’ needs are met beyond the company’s standard product offerings, while the Quality department remains committed to not only meeting customer requirements, but increasing customer satisfaction by continuously improving the company’s products, services and the quality management system. As an ISO-9001:2008-certified company, Electro-Optics Technology established a Quality Management System that meets the International Quality System Standard.

Electro-Optics Technology Faraday Rotators & Isolators

In addition to the company’s custom products, Electro-Optics Technology offers product lines that have met customer demand over its 29-year history. Since the company’s inception, Electro-Optics Technology has produced Faraday rotators, which are available in a variety of lines. These rotators maintain the light’s linear polarization while rotating the plane of polarized light 45 degrees in the forward direction and an additional 45 degrees of non-reciprocal rotation in the reverse direction.

Today, Electro-Optics Technology also produces optical isolators and fiber collimators for use with laser diodes, fiber lasers and solid-state lasers, including an emphasis on high average power and peak power applications. The company’s optical isolators provide high transmission in the forward direction while decreasing light traveling in the reverse direction, which effectively protects laser oscillators from the harmful effects of back reflections. Using its patented monolithic mode stripping fiber ferrule/collimator technology, the company’s fiber collimators minimize optical loss while maintaining excellent beam quality and a high level of resistance to back reflections. Because of this combination, Electro-Optics Technology’s collimators provide a perfect solution for numerous beam delivery applications.

In addition to these products – which remain popular among the company’s OEM customers – Electro-Optics Technology offers a complete line of high speed photodetectors. These are used in monitoring the output of pulsed, mode-locked and externally modulated continuous wave (CW) lasers. The company will soon add to this line with the introduction of its 40GHz Photodetector.

To provide customers with products that meet their constantly-evolving needs, Electro-Optics Technology remains vigilant to changes in the industry. Over the last 5 years, the company has taken note of the steady increase seen in the fiber laser industry, specifically in the China market. As a result, Electro-Optics developed its 50W Fiber Laser Isolators for these applications. The company has also seen a significant growth in lasers used for medical and cosmetic applications, such as tattoo removal. To answer this growing need, Electro-Optics Technology has increasingly focused on and promoted its Tornos Series rotators and isolators, which serve well in those applications.

A member of Laser Institute of America (LIA) since 2013, Electro-Optics Technology enjoys taking part in the organization’s tradeshow, ICALEO®. In addition to LIA’s resources, Electro-Optics appreciates the marketing opportunities LIA offers in order to further increase company visibility within the industry.

For more information, visit www.eotech.com.

 

MPIF’s Metal Additive Manufacturing Conference Visits Boston in June

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The Metal Powder Industries Federation (MPIF) and APMI International sponsored conferences and exhibits are recognized as the largest and most prestigious conferences in the powder metallurgy (PM) industry. The third Additive Manufacturing with Powder Metallurgy Conference (AMPM2016), June 5–7 in Boston, will showcase additive manufacturing (AM) as a process of making three-dimensional solid objects by adding successive layers of metal powders rather than by removing material, as is common in conventional methods such as cutting or drilling.

Focused solely on metal AM, over 40 presentations from global industry experts from 11 countries make this a truly international collaboration of the latest industry developments. Presentations will include the perspective of metal powder producers, toll providers and end user of these processes, R&D programs from academia and consortiums, and equipment manufacturers. Topics include materials, processes, technical advances & barriers, and applications.  MPIF‘s focus is to promote advanced manufacturing methods that have high-material utilization rates, relatively low-energy consumption, and utilize recycled materials where possible. In many cases, no other manufacturing method is practical to produce these components.

Co-located with AMPM is the POWDERMET2016 International Conference on Powder Metallurgy & Particulate Materials, June 5–8.  The combined conferences’ attendance will approach 1,000 delegates, the leading industry-technical minds, transferring knowledge as they attend technical sessions, special interest programs, and view the poster display. The 100-booth marketplace exhibition will showcase leading suppliers of powder metallurgy and particulate materials processing equipment, metal powders, and products—one stop shopping for all.

Special events include a keynote presentation by author and futurist Jim Carroll, addressing the impact of advanced manufacturing methodologies; luncheon Guest Speaker Christopher A. Schuh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Materials Sciences and Engineering; the Design Excellence Awards Luncheon featuring recipients of the 2016 awards; the State of the PM Industry in North America; and the Main Social Event at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.

To learn more about this monumental event, visit AMPM2016.org or POWDERMET2016.org.

DM3D Technology – February’s Featured Corporate Member

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DM3D Technology is the leading additive metal manufacturing company, dedicated to providing innovative solutions to meet the needs of the laser, aerospace, automotive, oil and gas industries and beyond. The Michigan-based company offers production additive manufacturing services through its proprietary DMD technology, as well as product development services for additive manufacturing, in-line DMD systems for high volume production processes and customized, production-ready equipment. Through the use of patented laser-based Direct Metal Deposition (DMD) technology, DM3D Technology not only forms fully functional metal parts, but also uses 3D CAD data to add metal to existing parts. By using industrial lasers as an optical heat energy source and utilizing the company’s patented closed-loop feedback system, DM3D produces metal parts that maintain dimensional stability.

Owned by CITG Capital, DM3D Technology was established in 2013, when its founders acquired the POM Group, Inc.’s DMD technology. Building upon the decade-long work the POM Group completed in this technology, DM3D originally provided DMD services for tooling applications. Now, with a strong focus on additive manufacturing, the company specializes in four main services: DMST, DM3R, DM3D and DM3M.

DMST offers cost-effective solutions to the industry’s material challenges, coating low-cost parts of varying geometries with high performance materials.  DM3R provides time-efficient remanufacturing applications, using the DMD process to not only repair and rebuild damaged components, but to reconfigure parts to adapt to design changes. The service for which the company is named – DM3D – is free form fabrication, or 3D printing, which creates fully dense, functional metal parts. Finally, as an innovative solution for combining two or more materials into a single component, DM3D created its DM3M service – Multi-Material Component Applications – which saves companies time and money, by precisely applying necessary materials at select locations on parts, enhancing product performance.

Since 2013, DM3D Technology has remained dedicated to adapting to industry needs, such as cost concern, which has proven a continuous obstacle in the journey to bring additive manufacturing into mainstream manufacturing. As a result of customer demand for cost reduction, DM3D’s team has worked to find solutions through the innovation of multi-part fixturing and numerous types of beam shaping and beam splitting to improve throughput. Routinely offering the most cost-effective, time-efficient solutions on the market, DM3D will introduce a new type of Hybrid Manufacturing process soon, which will transform a conventionally fabricated metal preform into a fully functional 3D metal part through the use of DM3D’s proprietary metal additive, DMD process. Ideal for mid- to large-sized parts, the process will improve throughput, reduce cost and enhance quality.

Though its parent company, POM Group, Inc., became a member of Laser Institute of America (LIA) in 2007, DM3D Technology joined when it branched off in 2013. LIA membership has proven important to DM3D, as the organization not only provides the company more exposure to its customers, but also serves as an effective tool to embed DM3D in the Laser Material Processing community and to network with others in the same field.

For more information, visit www.dm3dtech.com.