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Lasers Effectively Cut, Mill and Drill Carbon Fibre Reinforced Plastics

Lasers have the ability to effectively process carbon fibre reinforced plastics (CFRP) without affecting the integrity of the material.

3 Nov 2011

Ultrafast Semiconductor Lasers for High-Speed Optical Data Transmission

Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) researchers have conceptualized an ultrafast semiconductor laser to enable high-speed data transmission over the Internet.

1 Nov 2011

NIST Develop Laser Frequency Combs for Precision Frequency Measurement

Research in fields such as trace gas detection, timekeeping and others related to physics has been greatly helped by laser frequency combs in measuring the frequencies of light.

28 Oct 2011

Sandia National Labs Conduct Tests for Assessing Lighting Capacity of LEDs

Sandia National Laboratories have discovered that the human eye is comfortable viewing under white light emitted by the diode lasers as well as under light emitted by LEDs.

28 Oct 2011

PhotoMedex Offers Co-Pay Program for Laser Treatment of Psoriasis in Children

The medical devices manufacturer, PhotoMedex has proposed a co-pay reimbursement program targeted at children to provide them with better access to XTRAC psoriasis treatment. The offer will coincide with the World Psoriasis Day, to be observed on 29th October.

From PhotoMedex 27 Oct 2011

New Conduction-Cooled, Multi-Bar, Line Source From Dilas

DILAS, the diode laser company, is now delivering a new conduction-cooled, multi-bar, line source module with a homogeneous top hat optical beam profile in the slow-axis and diffraction limited profile in the fast-axis.

25 Oct 2011

Laser Checks Packaged Food Freshness

A collaborative effort between researchers belonging to the fields of packaging logistics and atomic physics at the Lund University in Sweden has led to the development of a non-destructive laser method to check for the freshness of packaged foods.

22 Oct 2011

Microscan Receives 100th U.S. Patent for Dome Light in DPM Handheld Imager

Microscan, a provider of technology for machine vision, automatic identification, precision control, track, trace and data acquisition solutions, has received its milestone 100th patent in the United States.

22 Oct 2011

3D Silver Nano Funnel Converts Infrared Laser Pulses To EUV Light Flashes

Nano funnels can be used to efficiently concentrate light. Scientists belonging to the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Germany,

20 Oct 2011

New Range of Single-Frequency Fiber Lasers from NKT Photonics

NKT Photonics launches new range of high power BoostiK™ single-frequency fiber lasers offering up to 15W output with market leading low phase noise and narrow linewidth for applications within e.g. atomic physics, sensing and LIDAR.

16 Oct 2011