Archive for the ‘Laser technology’ Category
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
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For the first time, researchers have controlled the pace of an embryonic heart using pulses of light, reports Lauren Gravitz in Technology Review published by MIT. The scientists ...
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Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
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The US Patent and Trademark Office has allowed one of Resonetics' patent applications directed to laser micromachining of a conical surface.
This patent enables the laser-based microdrilling of holes as small as 1 µm in diameter and ...
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Monday, August 9th, 2010
A die cutting system that combines laser and rotary technologies may be advantageous to medical device designers and manufacturers, according to equipment builder Spartanics. The Finecut-Plus-Rotary system provides users with the speed and capabilities of rotary die cutters but does not saddle them with the considerable lifetime costs of dies, ...
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Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. (LZH) has developed a new welding process based on gas metal-arc welding (GMAW) to make conventional welding faster. The association says that by adding a laser beam to guide and stabilise the process, welding speeds can be doubled. This welding process can be used for conventional steels ...
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Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
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Although laser plastic welding generally produces fewer errors, full reliability requires dependable verification. LPKF LaserWelding division has now added reflection diagnosis to its existing range of quality assurance methods. Reflection diagnosis makes use of the ...
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Monday, July 19th, 2010
Femto is the new nano, in the laser world at least. We recently profiled Rofin’s incorporation of a femtosecond laser source from Raydiance in its StarCut Tube Femto system. Now, High Q Laser enters the fray with its compact and affordable femtoTRAIN Ti:Sapphire.
The 53-x-20-cm laser measures 7.5 cm high and produces ...
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Monday, July 12th, 2010
Leoni, provider of cables and cable systems to the medical sector and other industries, has acquired the US-based company RoMack Inc. that specialises in optical fibre technology. In doing so, the Nuremberg, Germany cables group continues to pursue its strategy of strengthening its position in niche markets by means of ...
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Sunday, June 20th, 2010
The use of femtosecond laser technology in medtech manufacturing applications may be headed for a Gladwellian tipping point thanks to a collaboration between Rofin, which manufactures laser-based systems for industrial materials processing, and Raydiance, a specialist in the development of ultrafast laser technology. Rofin has incorporated a femtosecond laser source ...
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Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
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Laser marking specialist Rofin (Bergkirchen, Germany) and industrial image processing company VisionTools (Waghäusel, Germany) introduced a new system for laser marking and ...
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
The laser will celebrate its 50th birthday in May 2010, and festivities are already well under way. As I mention in the forthcoming February issue of European Medical Device Technology, a group of photonics and scientific associations is marking the milestone with a series of LaserFest events at trade shows ...
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Thursday, January 14th, 2010
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Now we know how the engineers at Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. (LZH) get their kicks, and, like the song says, it’s not from champagne or flying too high with ...
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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
Novel laser welding techniques open up new possibilities for process control and cost reduction within a 24/7 large-scale production environment. LIMO (Dortmund, Germany) now offers a product range of industrial laser systems with integrated process control. These devices are particularly suitable for the joining of medical thermoplastic components and allow ...
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