In our last blog post we gave a quick introduction to laser marking. In this post we will look into the various laser marking mechanisms. It may look dazzling to categorize laser marking approaches ...

Laser marking has spread into a wide spectrum of industrial fields. In this picture, an industrial laser is engraving an aerospace component. Courtesy of laserimpressions.com What Is Laser Marking? It has ...

Ultrafast amplifiers are devices that can boost the pulse energy and the average powers of ultrashort pulse trains. While the prospect of applying ultrafast amplifiers on laser systems is appealing, it ...

What are Ultrafast Amplifiers? For scientists and engineers, it is always exciting to have their laser machines empowered, and today a variety of ultrafast amplifiers are built right for this purpose. ...

Ever since x-ray was first discovered by Sir Wilhelm Röntgen, scientists have started the enthusiastic exploration of its potential for imaging applications. Among all the sub-fields, x-ray microscopy has ...

A Dilemma of Choices If you are suffering from vision degradation like myopia, hyperopia and astigmatism, you are probably considering LASIK (laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis) cornea surgery, so as to ...

What is Laser Reliability? Ever since its creation, laser, the “sacred lightsaber”, has become a secret weapon to unravel the cutting-edge problems in numerous scientific and engineering fields. The ...

Infrared imaging is a technique that detects thermal radiation and produces images of heat distribution and fluctuation. Due to the black body radiation law, all the objects with a temperature higher than ...

If you need to control the state of polarization of your light or change the direction of polarization of your beam or change from linear polarization to circular polarization (or vice versa) or create any ...

General Information Mica is a naturally occurring birefringent biaxial crystal. It is cleaved into wafers of precisely controlled thickness to produce optical retarders at user-specified wavelengths. Due ...