By: Minlin Zhong Tsinghua University The booming Chinese economy has created a favorable environment for the research, development, application and market in the area of high-power lasers and especially laser additive manufacturing (LAM) in China. In a so-called “world manufacturing center,” laser additive manufacturing, as a modern advanced manufacturing technology, plays an important role in […]
Femtosecond Laser Micromachining of Fused Silica for Microfluidic and Micro-Optical Applications
By: Ya Cheng, Fei He, Yang Liao, Lingling Qiao, Zhizhan Xu, Koji Sugioka and Katsumi Midorikawa State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, China Laser Technology Laboratory, RIKEN – Advanced Science Institute, Japan Nowadays, microfluidic systems for controlling and manipulating tiny volumes of liquids with high precision have attracted […]
New Stainless Powders for Laser Cladding
By: Ingrid Hauer North American Hoganas New investments into laser cladding as well as wear and corrosion testing equipment have lead to the expanded use of stainless steels. Latest developments show these lower cost alloys are able to yield comparable physical properties to many of the traditional Ni-based and Co-based alloys commonly used today.
JLA Update
The Laser Institute of America has made its official publication the Journal of Laser Applications® (JLA), an online-only journal, complete with new features for a broader audience. JLA is hosted on AIP Publishing’s robust Scitation online platform, providing the journal with greater functionality and the ability to leverage a wide range of valuable discoverability features. JLA […]
Newport Announces Terahertz Pulse Generation Kit
Newport Corporation introduces the new terahertz (THz) pulse generation kit using a sub-35-fs Ti:sapphire amplifier system. The kit can be easily integrated with a Ti:sapphire amplifier to generate terahertz pulses which can be further used for linear, nonlinear, and time-resolved spectroscopy applications.