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Laser Micro Welding of Copper
Laser Micro Welding of Copper
Motivation behind advancing micro welding technologies One of the important technologies for attaining complex goals and providing high quality requirements for the electrical and mechanical connection in ...
Raman Thermometry: Measuring Temperature at Micro-Scale
Raman Thermometry: Measuring Temperature at Micro-Scale
Why Measuring Temperatures at Micro-Scale is so Difficult? Scaling temperature measurement techniques from the macro- to micro-scale proves quite difficult due to the evasiveness of temperature sensing ...
Importance of Heating by Laser in Directed Energy Deposition
Importance of Heating by Laser in Directed Energy Deposition
Powder stream and directed energy deposition Directed energy deposition (DED) is an innovative manufacturing technique. This method has a significant potential for the creation of novel materials. ...
Shaped Laser Beam Effects on Outcomes of Laser Welding
Shaped Laser Beam Effects on Outcomes of Laser Welding
Introduction In this article, we discuss the effect of shaped laser beam profiles on melt thermal flow. This discussion is based on the research conducted by the scientists at University West and Institute ...
Laser-Thermal Propulsion for a Rapid Transit to Mars Mission
Laser-Thermal Propulsion for a Rapid Transit to Mars Mission
Story of the Mars mission The introduction of low-cost fiber-optic laser amplifiers is one recent advance in photonics that has rekindled interest in directed-energy propulsion. It has now been proven at ...
Gentec-EO launches the 2023 Laser Lab Awards contest
Gentec-EO launches the 2023 Laser Lab Awards contest
FindLight is delighted to share the news about Gentec-EO’s 2023 Laser Lab Awards contest, which benefits optics laboratories in universities and colleges worldwide by offering access to ...
Starlink: Innovating the Internet
Starlink: Innovating the Internet
Starlink, a collection of satellites operated by SpaceX, is at the forefront of delivering global wireless internet coverage to nearly 45 participating countries. In this blog post, we will discuss the ...
HDR Photography: A Practical Guide
HDR Photography: A Practical Guide
If you’ve ever been on a hike on a sunny day you may have noticed that the photos you take have high levels of contrast between the bright spots and shady spots. This can be hard to manage as an ...
Hubble vs. Webb Photonics: Light Wave Detection
Hubble vs. Webb Photonics: Light Wave Detection
The Hubble Space Telescope has served as a space pioneer over the past three decades, but how has its successor, the James Webb Space Telescope, already furthered these astronomical advancements so much? ...
How will Optical Fiber Probes Shape the Future of Medicine?
How will Optical Fiber Probes Shape the Future of Medicine?
How often do we think about the importance of optical fiber probes in biomedical applications? When we think of optical engineering applications in the medical field, we often think of lasers, MRI ...