Virtually all laser processing techniques release airborne contaminants hazardous to human health. Beth Harlen investigates the need and methods of extracting those particulates
Greg Blackman gets to grips with ultrafast laser processing, a technique that’s now come of age for high precision micromachining tasks
Gemma Church investigates how laser welding is opening up new design capabilities in automotive production
Edmund Optics has traditionally served the scientific markets, but now the optics provider is expanding into materials processing. Tom Eddershaw spoke to the company at Laser World of Photonics in Munich, Germany in June
Matthew Dale explores some of the latest technology for manipulating and measuring the beam, including a multi-spot optical module for laser brazing and a contactless beam analysis device
Moving to very high power lasers for welding metals, like aluminium in car production, has some big benefits, as Greg Blackman finds out