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Miniature Laser Crucial for Development of New Medical Sensors

In a big step toward creating portable scanners that can quickly measure molecules in pharmaceuticals or categorize tissue in patients’ skin, scientists have developed an imaging system that uses lasers adequately small and efficient to be placed on a microchip.

25 Jul 2019

MKS Announces Ophir® 16 K-W High Power Laser Sensor Featuring Fast Response Time and High Damage Threshold

MKS Instruments, Inc., a global provider of technologies that enable advanced processes and improve productivity, has announced the Ophir® 16 K-W High Power Laser Sensor, a compact sensor for measuring very high power lasers.

From MKS Instruments, Inc. 23 Jul 2019

X-Ray Crystallography Reveals 3D Structure of Biological Macromolecules

A review on serial femtosecond crystallography has been published by scientists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT).

22 Jul 2019

Pump Combiners for Fiber Lasers and Fiber Amplifiers

Lightel’s high-power pump combiners are mainly used to combine the power of several multimode lasers and thus obtain delivery and pump fibers with a high output power. At LASER COMPONENTS, these passive components are available for applications with up to 36 laser sources and total powers of up to 8,000 W.

From LIGHTEL 17 Jul 2019

Researchers Create Customized AFM Probes Using 3D Direct Laser Writing

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) enables scientists to study surfaces at the atomic level. The technique is based on a basic concept: a pointed tip on a cantilever 'senses' the samples’ topography.

17 Jul 2019

Fiber Optics Symposium 2019

The expansion of the 5G network will certainly be one of the dominant topics at this year’s fiber optics symposium held by LASER COMPONENTS.

12 Jul 2019

Microbubble Implosion Could Reveal the Physics Behind Vacuum

In general, “vacuum” is considered to be nothing but vacant space. However, in reality, a vacuum is composed of “virtual particle-antiparticle pairs” of electrons and positrons that constantly form and get annihilated in unbelievably short time periods.

10 Jul 2019