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LightMachinery Acquires the Impact® and LaserMark® Product Lines from GSI Group

LightMachinery Inc. is pleased to announce that it has concluded an agreement with GSI Group to purchase the Impact and LaserMark product lines.

From LightMachinery 20 Aug 2019

Researchers Apply New Principle to Produce Terahertz Radiation

The “Landau-level laser” presents an interesting concept for an extraordinary radiation source. This kind of laser can efficiently produce what is known as terahertz waves.

19 Aug 2019

Metrology Service Provider Expands with Second LK CMM

Contract inspection and reverse engineering capacity has doubled in terms of throughput, while the size of component that can be measured has increased more than five-fold at Laser Scanning Ltd, based in Chapeltown, near Sheffield (www.laser-scanning.co.uk).

From Laser Scanning 13 Aug 2019

Andor Cameras Help Detect Source of Laser Beam Attacks on Aircraft

Laser beam strikes on aircraft have long been a concern for aviation authorities across the world. In 2017, the Federal Aviation Administration in the United States received 6,754 individual reports of lasers being purposely aimed at their pilots, and in past week, five aircraft were targeted as they flew in to land at Glasgow Airport in Scotland.

From Andor Technology Ltd. 13 Aug 2019

New Simplified Mass Spectrometric Method using Laser and Graphene

A technology that can acquire high-resolution, micrometer-sized images for mass spectrometric examination without the need for sample preparation has been developed.

12 Aug 2019

FIR Free-Electron Laser can be Used to Break Down Amyloid Protein Aggregates

Amyloid fibrils, which are a kind of self-assembled proteins/peptides, adopt a stacked sheet-like configuration.

12 Aug 2019

Scansonic Launches New ALO4 in Automotive Production

A venture with radiant power: One of the world's leading automobile manufacturers is now using the ALO4 in its car body production operations. This state-of-the-art technology was developed by Berlin's experts for laser-based metalworking.

From Scansonic MI GmbH 8 Aug 2019

New Microscopy Technique May Help Detect Cancer Metastasis in Real Time

For the first time, scientists have integrated automated image analysis algorithms with a robust microscopy method to differentiate healthy tissues from metastatic cancerous ones without depending on the use of a contrast dye or invasive biopsies.

7 Aug 2019

ISD-1.6-SP Pulsed Laser Detector

High speed pulsed laser diodes and LEDs can emit pulses of a few nanoseconds in pulse width with very high peak power.

From Gigahertz-Optik Inc 2 Aug 2019

Researchers Theoretically Show it is Possible to Create 3D Laser Solitons

Light can never propagate endlessly without any dissipation in nearly all media, even in a vacuum. Light pulses called solitons travel along fibers for long distances without any change in shape or losing focus, and have found applications in data transmission.

1 Aug 2019