II‐VI Incorporated has unveiled its DirectProcess 900 direct diode laser engine with active rectangular-beam shaping for micro materials processing
The Corona CFX-5000 is an all-fibre laser with programmable beam characteristics that bring together the speed and cost advantages of traditional fibre lasers with the superior thick metal edge quality of CO2 lasers
The flexible laser system is available in two power levels of 200W and 500W and is optimised for manual use or for integration with a robot
Laser glass processing specialist 4JET Microtech now offers a turnkey solution for high-volume precision cutting of technical glass
Laser specialists Cyan Tec recently celebrated the development of its 16kW disk laser system by hosting an industry open day at Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre in Rotherham
Amada is making its new Clean Fast Cut (CFC) technology available as standard on its 6-9kW fibre laser cutting machines
The Carbide from Light Conversion is an industrial-grade femtosecond laser system, ideally suited to the demands of precision laser micromachining applications
Evana Technologies' Freezer series of compact ultrashort laser pulse optical engines are cable of scribing wafers made of hard and brittle material
Recol Engineering, a subcontract supplier of complete metal-based manufacturing solutions, will become Europe’s first user of the AMADA ACIES-2515TAJ 4kW CNC fibre-laser profiling centre
Laser micromachining firm 3D-Micromac has introduced the microPREP 2.0 laser ablation system for high-volume sample preparation of metals, semiconductors, ceramics and compound materials
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