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Laser Fume Extractors – machines used to suck up toxic fumes – are used in a wide variety of laser cutting and laser engraving processes. They keep machine operators safe from potential health risks and ...

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 ...

Introduction to Ligand-Binding Affinity Ligand-bound complexes are the basis of many reactions in biochemistry and pharmacology. Millions of these biochemical reactions take place in a human body every ...

What exactly is Laser Depaneling? In today’s blog post we’ll discuss just about all you need to know about Laser Depaneling.  A Basic Intro to Laser Depaneling Lingo Before we get into the standard ...

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 ...

From the device that you are looking at to the international space station, glass is the invisible material that improves our daily life.  A large class of glass materials are derived from quartz, or most ...

Introduction Supercontinuum lasers are a special type of lasers that emit an extremely wide and continuous spectrum of light. When they were first invented, these lasers were known as the “white-light” ...

LeviPrint technology, short for levitation printing technology, is a touch free manufacturing system currently in development. The technology is being developed with a few new contributions being ...

When visiting lighthouses built in the 19th century, you may notice a strange hive like glass cage around the lamp. These are the Fresnel lenses, originally designed by Augustin Fresnel*. At the time, ...

Introduction We frequently use disk laser welding in the manufacturing sector (e.g., see Figure 1). The laser beam interacts with the material to carry the welding energy, with the result that some of the ...