But a fiber laser with 200kW peak power is in another hazard class entirely. Granted, outsized power ratings like this are a bit misleading, based as they are on femtosecond-long pulses.

Fiber lasers aren’t nearly as common as their diode and CO2 cousins, but if you’re lucky enough to have one in your garage or local makerspace, this technique for depositing thin films of ...

Choosing the right laser technology CO2 vs Fiber vs Diode depends on the specific needs of the application. CO2 lasers are versatile and effective for non-metallic materials, making them ideal for ...

UK based-firm TWI has been developing methods for laser tube-cutting for the UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. They have now demonstrated a 5 kW fiber laser projector, configured rather like ...

The fiber laser array system, developed after more than a decade of research and testing, consists of phase locking and beam combining for multichannel, 7 and 19, fiber laser sub-aperture arrays.

Tubular laser beams can create what amount to fiber-optic cables made of thin air, researchers report in a study to appear in Physical Review X.. Laser-heated air can efficiently transmit light ...

Laser weapons have taken another step forward with Lockheed Martin announcing it has demonstrated a 30-kilowatt fiber laser produced by combining many lasers into a single beam of light.

Laser giant Coherent is using this week’s EuroBLECH trade fair in Hanover, Germany, to launch what it describes as a “radical” new series of high-power fiber lasers for industrial applications..

A fiber laser sensor (illustrated in the top right inset), adhered to the structures, measures the acoustic emission signals generated by the cracks and software records them as acoustic events (AE).