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Industry’s First Real-Time Dynamic AutoFocus Scribing Solution

Electro Scientific Industries, a leading provider of world-class photonic and laser systems for microengineering applications, today announced that its NWR Division has fully qualified the industry's first Real-Time Dynamic AutoFocus Scribing Solution, the AccuScribe 2150, at a key customer in Taiwan.

18 Jun 2008

Agilent Laser Calibration Tool Sets Industry Standard

Agilent Technologies Inc. today introduced a new Dynamic Calibrator, a laser-based calibration system for measuring machine-tool and coordinate-measuring-machine (CMM) accuracy. New sensors in the system offer accuracy to 0.4ppm, setting a new industry standard.

17 Jun 2008

Company Invited to Present on Advanced Laser Technology for Pocket Projectors

QPC Lasers, Inc., a world leader in the design and manufacture of high brightness, high power semiconductor lasers for the consumer electronics, industrial, defense, and medical markets, today announced that it will exhibit at Projection Summit 2008 and demonstrate its miniature BrightLase® Red-Green-Blue "RGB" laser.

16 Jun 2008

New Laser Designed to Replace Nitrogen Gas Lasers Used in Mass Spectrometry

Zecotek Photonics Inc. today announced a new and proprietary solid-state 336nm DPSS laser designed to replace nitrogen gas lasers currently used in a wide range of mass spectrometry applications.

11 Jun 2008

DiOptika Introduces New DBX Laser Beam Expanders Ideal for Laser Applications

DiOptika introduces its new DBX laser beam expanders offering 10X, 15X and 20X expansion ratios with a large clear output aperture of 47mm diameter. The large output reduces optical loss and is ideal for laser applications where either a small spot is required at long distances or a large collimated output beam is required.

11 Jun 2008

IXYS Corporation Introduces High Power Pulsed Laser Diode Driver

IXYS Corporation, a leader in power semiconductors for power conversion and motion control applications, announced today the introduction of the PCX-7450 by its Colorado division. The PCX-7450 is an air-cooled, high power pulsed current source designed to drive diode lasers, bars and arrays.

10 Jun 2008

New Telecentric UV Scanning Lenses to Accommodate Large Input Beam Diameters

Special Optics, a Navitar company and manufacturer of high precision F-Theta scan lenses introduces four new telecentric UV scanning lenses to accommodate large input beam diameters of up to 17mm and wavelengths of 266 or 355nm. Lens focal lengths include 34mm, 50mm and two at 100mm with scan fields of 9mm, 20mm, 45mm, and 55mm, respectively.

9 Jun 2008

NIH Conduct Tests on Green Fiber Laser in Flow Cytometry Applications

Zecotek Photonics Inc. is pleased to announce that the National Cancer Institute, a division of the U.S. National Institute of Health (NIH), recently conducted tests on its proprietary Green Fiber Laser (GFL-550) in flow cytometry applications.

5 Jun 2008

AMS Technologies Announces Availability of Solid State UV Lasers

Diode-pumped frequency-multiplied solid state UV lasers of the US manufacturer DPSS Lasers Inc. are available from AMS Technologies.

5 Jun 2008

Using Light to Destroy Cancer

When Sammie Bush mentioned to his doctor that he sometimes felt something in the back of his throat, he didn't expect to learn that he had cancer or that he would be the first patient at the University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago to undergo photodynamic therapy -- a new procedure that uses light to destroy cancer.

4 Jun 2008