(Nanowerk News) While laser-based 3D printing techniques have revolutionized the production of metal parts by greatly expanding design complexity, the laser beams traditionally used in metal printing ...

Turin, Italy-based laser module manufacturer Convergent Photonics is developing new sources for high-power industrial and mid-power medical laser applications thanks to the introduction of a new ...

Researchers have developed a new method for flexibly creating various needle-shaped laser beams. These long, narrow beams can be used to improve optical coherence tomography (OCT), a noninvasive and ...

A new approach to beam shaping will soon make additive manufacturing more flexible and efficient: the Fraunhofer ILT (Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology) has developed a new platform to ...

Laser powder bed fusion (LBPF), a 3D printing technique commonly used to make metal parts, creates large thermal gradients between areas hit by the laser and areas not being struck. This creates pools ...

Since the discovery of lasers, laser outputs have been limited to simple wavefront profiles, such as Gaussian (with the highest intensity in the middle, and lower intensity towards the tails) and ...

Attosecond pulses are indispensable tools for time-resolved studies of electron dynamics on their natural time scale: attoseconds (10-18 second). Such studies include coincidence spectroscopy and ...