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Laser Marking Mechanisms: Low and High Energy Regimes
In our last blog post we gave a quick introduction to laser marking. In this post we will look into the various laser marking mechanisms. It may look dazzling to categorize laser marking approaches ...
Laser Marking: The Light Pencil To Fulfill Imagination And Artistry
Laser marking has spread into a wide spectrum of industrial fields. In this picture, an industrial laser is engraving an aerospace component. Courtesy of laserimpressions.com What Is Laser Marking? It has ...
Ultrafast Amplifiers: What To Choose Among All Models
Ultrafast amplifiers are devices that can boost the pulse energy and the average powers of ultrashort pulse trains. While the prospect of applying ultrafast amplifiers on laser systems is appealing, it ...
X-Ray Microscopy: A Bigger World In A Smaller Scale
Ever since x-ray was first discovered by Sir Wilhelm Röntgen, scientists have started the enthusiastic exploration of its potential for imaging applications. Among all the sub-fields, x-ray microscopy has ...
Laser Reliability: Six Factors to Consider Before Buying a Laser
What is Laser Reliability? Ever since its creation, laser, the “sacred lightsaber”, has become a secret weapon to unravel the cutting-edge problems in numerous scientific and engineering fields. The ...
Selecting the right waveplate for your application
If you need to control the state of polarization of your light or change the direction of polarization of your beam or change from linear polarization to circular polarization (or vice versa) or create any ...
Mica Waveplates – What You Need to Know
General Information Mica is a naturally occurring birefringent biaxial crystal. It is cleaved into wafers of precisely controlled thickness to produce optical retarders at user-specified wavelengths. Due ...
Laser Marking on Glass: How to Achieve High Quality
How to improve the quality of laser marking on glass? Perhaps this is your first week of starting a laser engraving business or you have been using your laser quite proficiently for some time now, and ...
AOTF – Acousto-Optic Tunable Filter System
An Acousto-Optic tunable filter (AOTF) is a pass-band transmission filter, which exploits the acousto-optic interaction inside an anisotropic medium. AOTF is generally fabricated in Tellurium Dioxide, ...
A Chip-Scale Workbench for Quantum Computing
Stewart Wills Scientists in the United Kingdom and Japan have fabricated a glass chip with an optical waveguide circuit that’s capable of implementing a universal set of linear optical transformations—and ...