From cutting steel, to drilling via holes in silicon, to marking plastic, a whole range of material processes now make use of the laser to produce results not previously practical.
Lightweight, complex mechanical parts can now be ¡°built to order¡± quickly and automatically, thanks to Additive Manufacturing (AM) technologies. AM involves building up a structure by adding
There is often confusion when dealing with beams emerging from a fiber. The geometry is a bit different; we have a diverging beam coming out of a small aperture.
Even low power laser beams can be hazardous to the human eye. The more sensitive a detector is, the more delicate it is. The human eye is still far and away the ultimate photonic detector.
Integrating a customized laser measurement tool into your system, to monitor the laser¡¯s performance so that your process continues to do just what you expect it to do, makes good sense.
LEDs are increasingly replacing traditional light sources in a wide range of applications. They are small, cheap, power efficient, have longer lifetimes¡and the list of advantages goes on.
The unique characteristics of THz radiation make it useful in such applications as medical imaging (for example cancer detection), materials characterization, high speed communications, and homeland security surveillance.