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