New Advancements in Direct Metal Deposition Technology

By: Dr. Bhaskar Dutta POM Group Inc. POM’s patented close loop Direct Metal Deposition (DMD) process allows precision metal deposition using a laser and a coaxial powder delivery system. Besides this, DMD systems include DMDCAM, a comprehensive 6-axis CAM software solution to generate deposition paths for contour, surface and volume geometry, adopting different deposition path […]

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Hot Wire Laser Cladding with Solid & Cored Wire

By: Wayne Penn Alabama Laser Hot Wire Laser cladding developed at Alabama Laser along with Lincoln Electric offers improved performance over traditional cladding techniques. Improvements include: no wasted filler material, production repeatability and stable production rates. The deposit has a pure metallurgical chemistry and the base material has a small heat affected zone. Alabama Laser […]

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Spectra-Physics Celebrates 50th Year in Commercial Laser Industry

Spectra-Physics®, a Newport Corporation Brand, announces the company is celebrating 50 years of pioneering new laser technologies, products and solutions for industry and science.  Notably, the company became the first commercial laser company in 1961, less than a year after the invention of the laser.  Spectra-Physics will begin the celebration of this milestone year at […]

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Femtosecond Laser Opens Up a Wide Range of Applications in Micro and Macro Areas

Femtosecond laser opens up a wide range of applications in micro and macro areas thanks to a previously not attained mean output power of 1.1 kW. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT have developed an amplification concept for femtosecond lasers (fs laser). As a result, they have been able to achieve mean […]

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Newport’s New Instrument Management Software Platform Created to Simplify Instrument Installation & Use

Newport Corporation, a worldwide leader in laser and photonic solutions that Make, Manage and Measure Light®, introduces NSTRUCT™, an enhanced instrument management software platform created to simplify installation and to provide  quicker and simpler instrument and experiment setup and use. Flexible and scalable, the instrument manager is designed with a set of features that create […]

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