Celebrating the Laser’s First Half Century

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 ...

Trumpf Enters Licensing Agreement With University of Michigan

Monday, January 19th, 2009

Many application areas of picosecond lasers are protected by a patent held by the University of Michigan. The patent covers microprocessing applications of ultrashort pulsed lasers used to ablate a variety of materials without heat effect in the surrounding area. Trumpf now offers users of its TruMicro Series 5000 the option of ...