Something is quietly shifting in Maryland’s industrial landscape. After decades of outsourcing, manufacturing is showing signs of coming home, and precision technology is at the center of this ...

A fiber laser can carve super intricate designs into any metal in just 10 seconds. The laser is getting so hot the metal is vaporizing away, yet it does nothing to our skin. As we play the video back ...

The use of lasers to route data streams through free air will find its place, but it's not likely to become a mainstream optical-networking technology. Free-space optics technology has been ...

Laser cutting and engraving technologies have become essential tools across a wide variety of different industries, from manufacturing, art and small businesses. These technologies use laser beams to ...

Yet, despite this advantage, thulium lasers have been stuck at around 1 kilowatt of output power for more than a decade, limited by nonlinear effects and heat buildup. One promising route to break ...

COCOCUT expands fiber laser accessories with a visual nozzle aligner and 1.5MPa inverter screw compressor for more ...

[Breaking Taps] has a nice pulsed fiber laser and decided to try it to micromachine with silicon. You can see the results in the video below. Silicon absorbs the IR of the laser well, although the ...

TUCSON, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NP Photonics is a leading developer and manufacturer of specialty fiber lasers, fiber amplifiers, and transport fibers for the near- and mid-infrared (IR) wavelength ...

The devices and tools used in medicine are becoming smaller. They have greater functionality and are expected to last longer than earlier devices. Design, manufacturing, and packaging the devices and ...

Laser-based data links are increasingly attractive for aircraft and space systems that need to move large volumes of ...