Choosing the Right Galvanometer and Servo for the Job

Galvanometer-based optical scanners are the preferred positioning solution for an increasingly broad range of industrial, scientific, imaging, and medical laser applications. While a number of scanning approaches are available, galvanometer-based scanners commonly called galvos offer flexibility, speed and accuracy at an attractive cost. While many imaging applications take advantage of the galvos

Optimizing Laser Glass Cutting with Diffractive Beam Shaping

Laser glass cutting with ultra-short IR pulses is lately growing to become a key technique for the high throughput glass processing. Cutting thick glasses (500um) using this technique possess unique challenges, as the laser energy needs to be both foc

Spectral Fiber Sensors for Cancer Diagnostics

Cancer is one of the main causes of morbidity and mortality across the globe. Hence, attempts are focused on the early-stage detection of cancer, and optical spectroscopy has been largely used for early diagnosis of cancer. Fluorescence or molecular

Laser Engraving

Laser engraving, which is a subset of laser marking is the practice of using lasers to engrave an object. Laser marking, on the other hand, is a broader category of methods to leave marks on an object, which also includes color change due to chemical/

Basics of Beam Expander

The laser beam enter a beam expander after the laser beam is generated in the laser resonator. The most common type of beam expander is derived from the Galilean telescope which usually has one negative input lens and one positive output lens. The inp

First Pulsing Control of AO Q-switch Drivers

When Q-Switching lasers at high repetition rates, it is normal to observe a giant first pulse after a pause in operation. For many applications this excess energy must be dissipated before or during the next modulation cycle. For example, in lasermarkers, when the time taken for the scan

Basics of F-theta Lenses

General information Lenses used in combination with XY galvanometer scanners are called -theta lenses, plane field objectives or simply scan lenses. -theta lenses are used in various applications from industrial material processing, drilling, welding

[Application] High Power 780nm for laser cooling and manipulation of Rb atoms

The manipulation of Rb atoms is commonly performed using diode-based laser systems typically producing several hundred mW of usable 780nm power. Many atom optics applications however favour higher laser power whilst maintaining a narrow linewidth and

[Application] Medical Device Manufacturing with FCPA

Lasers are often integral to the production of components for a range of application areas, including medical device manufacturing. These parts are then integrated in numerous products that vary from complex surgical instrumentation to simple single-use products that are used at the time of need by caregivers in hospital settings or out in communities. Designers and manufacturers of medical device

[Application] DOEs for Beam Shaping

A diffractive optical element (DOE) uses thin micro-structure patterns to alter the phase of the light that is propagated through it. Those micro-structures, once properly designed, can manipulate the light to almost any desired intensity profile or s

Laser Mold Cleaning

The new Vulcan laser cleaning systems delivers up to 5x the processing speed of conventional tire mold cleaning systems with an unprecedented 500 – 1600 Watts of cleaning power, with its industry leading laser pulse energy, the Vulcan is the new definition of portability and convenience for tire mold cleaning and preparation.

Ultrafast Laser in Life Science

Empowering biological scientists to see deeper and at higher resolution and frame rates. Biologists, neurobiologists and physicists are using bioimaging techniques to better understand the biological structures and processes of the brain. Over the pas

Optical Measurement of Narrow Holes

By: Roei Yiftah, Moshe Danziger and Shmulik Barzilay General Measuring deep and narrow holes with an aspect ratio of 1:5 (Diameter : Height) has always been a difficult and largely an unsolved problem. This is even more problematic if not only the bot

Scanning Probe Microscope for nanotechnologies

Laser De-Painting

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Laser Clean

New Green Cleaning Technology Laser Cleaning Laser cleaning is basically blast off the contaminants or impurities on the surface of the target by applying laser pulse directly to them. The great control over power and pulse parameters offer by laser a

Ultrafast Laser 3D Manufacturing System

Our proprietary technology on advanced ultrafast lasers based 3D manufacturing (Additive Manufacturing and Subtractive Manufacturing) opens a variety of opportunities in many fast-growing industries like aerospace, defense, bio-medicals, sensors, and

Diffractive Optical Elements (DOE) for Laser Perforation

A perforation is a small hole in a thin material or web. Laser perforation is typically used for sheet materials such as cigarette-tip paper or packaging foil for the food industry (prolongs the freshness and quality of perishable goods). Such applica

Diffractive Optical Elements (DOE) for Laser Brazing

In laser brazing applications, two metal sheets are joined by a laser melted solder wire. The join quality has been proven to improve when the metal surfaces are cleaned and pre-heated before the brazing wire is melted. Typical applications are found

Air-cooled Laser VS Water-cooled Laser

Air-cooled laser/ laser machine: laser is cooled by the environment air (fan, fin, TEC etc.) Water-cooled laser/ laser machine: laser is cooled by chiller, two tubes connect laser and chiller (there are two types of chiller: air-cooled chiller and wat

Air-cooled Chiller VS Water-cooled Chiller

Difference: Air-cooled chiller: condenser is cooled by the environment air (fan, fin, TEC etc.) Water-cooled chiller: c ondenser is cooled by water (connected to cooling tower). Application: Air-cooled chillers: Small or medium installations. Frequent

How to Calculate Magnification of Cutting Head?

The laser cutting head magnification M can be calculated from: M = f(focal unit) / f(collimaton unit) = d(focal diameter) / d(core diameter of fiber) Focal diameter can be estimated based on above formula: d(focal diameter) = M * d(core diameter of fi

Laser Projection

Electroactive polymers (so-called artificial muscles) are used to oscillate a diffuser at a high frequency to average out the speckle patterns. This principle is extremely compact, completely free of mechanics and low in power consumption.

Material Applications of CO2 Lasers

Metal vs. Organic CO2 lasers with power levels below 500 W produce energy that is easily absorbed by most organic materials, but is mostly reflected by metals at room temperature. While CO2 lasers can mark, cut and engrave organic materials,