A bright future for blue
21 August 2019
Jean-Michel Pelaprat, co-founder of Nuburu, discusses the benefits of materials processing using emerging blue diode lasers of increasing brightness
Diode lasers
Building a rectangular block of 316L stainless steel with LPBF and then annealing it with a diode laser. (Image: LLNL)
Diode laser used to reduce residual stress in metals during additive manufacturing
18 July 2019
The new technique resulted in the reduction of effective residual stress in metal 3D-printed test parts by 90 per cent
The manufacturing line will be used to accelerate the conversion of maritime transport towards using electric propulsion. (Image: Leclanché)
Swiss firm commissions battery manufacturing line for e-mobility
21 June 2019
Leclanché, a Swiss provider of energy storage solutions, has commissioned Italian industrial automation firm Comau to build an automated manufacturing line for lithium-ion battery modules intended for electric vehicles
II-VI Incorporated introduces high power laser light cables for blue lasers in materials processing
19 June 2019
II‐VI Incorporated has introduced new high power laser light cables for blue laser beams.
High-power collimated laser bars and collimated semi-framed stacks for direct diode and DPSS lasers
18 June 2019
II‐VI Incorporated has introduced high power laser bars and semi-framed stacks mounted with micro-optic collimator lenses, offering customers very cost-effective modular assemblies that have high performance and reliability and can be easily integrated into direct diode lasers and diode-pumped solid state (DPSS) lasers
High-speed laser welding system for polymers
11 June 2019
The ExactWeld 230 P from Coherent enables particle-free high throughput welding of small to medium sized polymer parts
Welding across the spectrum
31 May 2019
Matthew Dale explores the range of laser solutions available for copper processing applications in e-mobility
External view of high-energy industrial pulsed laser system.
(Image: Hamamatsu Photonics)
Hamamatsu develops LD-pumped pulsed laser system that delivers 117J
14 May 2019
Hamamatsu Photonics has developed a laser-diode-pumped high-energy pulsed laser system that delivers an output of 117J – the world’s highest among laser-diode-pumped lasers, according to the firm.
Laserline introduces blue CW diode lasers with up to 1kW output power
24 February 2019
With the LDMblue high-power diode lasers, Laserline presents blue diode lasers with cw output power of up to 1kW at 450nm wavelength
Jenoptik’s Light & Optics division presents new strategy at Photonics West
13 February 2019
The new Jenoptik Light & Optics division, whose primary focus is supplying photonics solutions, showcased its new strategy at Photonics West, USA
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