By Christian Hinke

Digital photonic production enables us to fabricate almost any component or product directly from digital data. Experts characterize the photon or the laser as the only tool that “works” as quickly as a computer “thinks.” An office laser printer functions according to this principle and reveals what will be possible in future manufacturing with high energy lasers – when the fundamental interactions between material, light and photonic process chains have been understood and, based on this knowledge, digital photonic production systems have been put into practice. Continue reading →