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IRIDEX Begins Shipping High-Power IQ 532 Laser Systems

IRIDEX Corporation, today announced the commencement of commercial shipment of the IQ 532 laser systems.

3 May 2010

Pressure Systems Employs New Laser Welding Technique in Transducer Production

Pressure Systems, manufacturer of precision level and pressure instrumentation for environmental water usage and water resource applications, now employs laser welding to ensure uniformity and consistency in manufacturing, while decreasing weld size and boosting product quality.

3 May 2010

Motionless Positronium Atoms Can Lead to Development of Gamma Ray Laser

Positronium is a short-lived system in which an electron and its anti-particle are bound together. In 2007, physicists at the University of California, Riverside created molecular positronium, a brand-new substance, in the laboratory.

3 May 2010

NTT Honored for Development of KTN Voltage Controlled Laser Beam Scanner

The CLEO/QELS: 2010 co-sponsors (APS, IEEE Photonics Society, OSA) and Laser Focus World today announced NTT Advanced Technology Corporation as the winner of this year’s CLEO/Laser Focus World Innovation Award.

30 Apr 2010

Ophir-Spiricon Adds New Product to its Silicon Laser Sensor Portfolio

Ophir-Spiricon, the global leader in precision laser measurement equipment, today announced the PD10-IR-pJ Photodiode Energy Sensors that measure very low energy, down to 30pJ.

29 Apr 2010

Realton Secures Financing to Expand Diode-Pumped Laser Systems Manufacturing

Realton Corporation, a pioneer in developing diode-pumped laser systems initially targeted to treat enlarged prostate, today announced the closing of its Series B financing co-led by OrbiMed Advisors and China Healthcare Partnership (CHP, a fund under Martin Currie Asset Management Group).

29 Apr 2010

FDA-Approved New Low Level Laser Therapy for Fibromyalgia

Fibromyalgia is a condition in which the brain processes pain in an abnormal way, resulting in chronic, widespread muscular-skeletal pain and chronic fatigue. This condition effects millions of Americans and has been poorly understood and under diagnosed, resulting in billions of dollars in cost to our health care system.

28 Apr 2010

Coherent Launches Verdi G7 Low-Noise Green Pump Laser

Coherent Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) (Nasdaq: COHR) has launched the Verdi™ G7, delivering the highest power level yet for the company's unique Verdi G family of low-noise CW lasers based on next-generation optically pumped semiconductor laser (OPSL) technology.

27 Apr 2010

LPP Light Source from EUVA Achieves World's Highest Power Output

Gigaphoton Inc., a major lithography light source manufacturer for the global semiconductor industry, today announced that an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light source developed by the technology consortium Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography System Development Association has achieved the world's highest output—104 Watts.

27 Apr 2010

Bruker to Supply Customized N8 TITANOS Large Sample Atomic Force Microscope to NIST

Bruker today announced that it has been awarded a $1.1 million contract to supply a customized N8 TITANOS™ large sample Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) to the United States Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

27 Apr 2010