WASHINGTON — The U.S. Missile Defense Agency has awarded three contracts to develop preliminary designs for a UAV-based, multi-kilowatt-class laser to demonstrate beam stabilization technology.

The main mechanical tools in a hacker’s shop used to be a drill press and a lathe. Maybe a CNC mill, if you were lucky. Laser cutters are still a rare tool to find in a personal shop, but today’s ...

[Les] from [Les’ Lab] has designed a driver for laser diodes up to 10 watts, and decided to show us how it operates, tells us what we should keep in mind when designing such a driver, and talks about ...

Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and Technical University of Vienna (TU Wien) have invented a new type of tunable semiconductor laser that ...

Designs generated through KolAi are said to integrate with any laser machine brand. Credit: KolAi Denim. With the prominence of AI-based tools in the industry, KolAi believes KolAi Denim certified ...

The Southern California company launched a free online certification course for its laser design software, KolAi Designer. Any interested designer can sign up for the course on KolAi’s website. After ...

Laser designers can now focus on refining and customising their KolAi-generated designs to meet their client’s specifications in a fraction of the time. Credit: KolAi Denim. KolAi Denim, a leading ...

The demand for photonics technology continues to grow with popular laser applications including semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs), Fabry-Perot (FP) devices and distributed feedback (DFB) lasers.

Tonello launched its first online shop with laser designs and graphics for denim. The goal of this project is to save brands significant costs in equipment and personnel; the designs can be used on ...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have designed a compact multi-petawatt laser that uses plasma transmission gratings to overcome the power limitations of conventional ...