New laser thermal processing equipment for surface quenching
26 February 2021
This equipment irradiates a laser beam with an output power of 2.5kW ideal for surface quenching onto steel materials of various shapes and sizes
Diode lasers
Tailoring microstructures in metal additive manufacturing
24 February 2021
Manyalibo Matthews shares how a deeper understanding of laser powder bed fusion will lead to material innovations and new applications in additive manufacturing
Vector Photonics believes that PCSELs will enable an entirely new class of next generation, metal printers. (Image: Vector Photonics)
UK-Japan project developing diode lasers for metal 3D printing
27 January 2021
PCSELs are able to offer high power, high reliability and high manufacturing efficiency to rival that of the lasers currently used in 3D printing
Lumentum to acquire Coherent for $5.7bn
19 January 2021
Coherent's photonics and lasers businesses will be combined with Lumentum's telecom, datacom, and 3D sensing businesses
Nuburu awarded eight new patents across 3D printing and materials processing
6 January 2021
The patents cover material processing with visible Raman lasers, in addition to the technology required to build these single mode visible lasers
Nuburu's latest AI-1500 laser offers 1.5kW of power (Image: Nuburu)
Nuburu completes $20m Series B funding round
8 December 2020
Nuburu’s total funding is now nearly $50 million, and will be used to accelerate the development of its high-brightness AI Series
Guy Gilliland (left) and Chris Baldwin (right).
Nuburu appoints new CEO and CFO
29 November 2020
Blue diode laser manufacturer Nuburu has appointed Dr Guy Gilliland as CEO and Chris Baldwin as CFO
Welding, cutting and 3D printing are counted among the industrial applications intended for the upcoming laser diodes. (Image: BluGlass)
BluGlass updates on laser diode production
22 October 2020
Three different standard laser designs have been demonstrated after being fabricated into test devices: 405nm, 420nm and 450nm
PicoLAS introduces two new drivers for high power CW laser diodes
19 October 2020
PicoLAS has introduced two new drivers of the LDP-CW 250-40 series to offer efficient control of high-performance continuous wave laser diodes
The recent emergence of blue laser processing shows promise for copper processing applications in e-mobility. (Image: Nuburu)
One wavelength, two approaches
25 September 2020
Over the summer laser users learned how two types of blue diode laser are dramatically improving copper welding for fabricating e-mobility components
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