By Silke Pflueger Invented two short years after the ruby laser in 1962, diode lasers are now taken for granted in many areas of our lives. You use them each time you pick up the phone, use a DVD or Blu-ray Disc, print or are at the grocery store checkout. All in all diode lasers […]
Tag: Laser Cutting
First-Time Participant Mitchell Van Zuiden will Present the Latest in Laser Cutting Advancements at LME
ORLANDO, FL, Aug. 6, 2014 — Advances in laser metal cutting, a staple of modern manufacturing, will be the subject of a keynote address by Mitchell Van Zuiden of Bystronic at the Laser Institute of America’s fourth annual Lasers for Manufacturing Event® (LME®) on Sept. 23 in Schaumburg, IL. Van Zuiden’s presentation, to be given […]
Sapphire Cutting with Pulsed Fiber Lasers
By Christoph Ruettimann, Noémie Dury and Markus Danner With almost 40 years of experience in precision processing of synthetic crystalline materials, Swiss laser manufacturer ROFIN-LASAG AG has developed a process for cutting sapphire glass, which is now increasingly used in mobile electronic devices and high-quality mechanical watches. Synthetic sapphire is a mono-crystalline aluminum oxide with […]
LME 2014: A Focused Laser Event Like No Other
By Geoff Giordano ORLANDO, FL, May 12, 2014 – Some new names will join familiar faces teaching the basic and master courses at the Laser Institute of America’s fourth-annual Lasers for Manufacturing Event® (LME®) in Schaumburg, IL, in September. And four expert keynote speakers will again provide big-picture analysis of how and where lasers can […]
High-Power Laser Materials Processing
By Eckhard Beyer and Achim Mahrle The high power laser market has been remarkably influenced by the introduction of high-brightness lasers, i.e., laser sources offering a high optical output power in combination with a high beam quality or a low beam parameter product, respectively. These features are primarily exhibited by fiber and disk laser systems, […]