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Plastic welding in automotive industry
9 March 2010
Beam shaping systems from Limo have been used to boost the efficiency of plastics welding processes significantly, and have been used by a Tier 1 parts manufacturer in the automotive industry
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Wales entices opto-electronics companies with business competition
9 March 2010
UK opto-electronics companies are being enticed to Wales via a high profile business competition, aimed at driving the country's knowledge economy
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Fusion research facility uses six giant lenses
9 March 2010
INDUSTRY
Jenoptik Group opens laser application centre in Korea
9 March 2010
INDUSTRY
Vytran appoints new sales engineer
5 March 2010
INDUSTRY
Instrument Systems takes over X-Rite's light measurement division
5 March 2010
INDUSTRY
SPIE announces annual award recipients
4 March 2010
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US naval air division turns to spectrometry
2 March 2010
APPLICATIONS
Portable FTIR analysis used to determine diesel purity
1 March 2010
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PSA Peugeot Citroen choses TruDisk
26 February 2010
DISTRIBUTORS
Avo Photonics and AMS Tech in distribution agreement
26 February 2010
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LaserFest celebrates 50 years of lasers
8 March 2010
The organisers of LaserFest are marking the 50th anniversary of the first laser with a year of events around the world, as Stephen Mounsey discovers
High turnout expected for Lasys 2010
3 March 2010
Around 200 exhibitors are expected at this year's Lasys trade fair, taking place in Stuttgart from 8-10 June and focusing on system solutions in laser material processing
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XploRA Raman microscope
9 March 2010
SPECTROSCOPY
The XploRA Raman microscope, featuring Swift confocal Raman image operation, is now available from Horiba Scientific
Horiba Scientific
High brightness, fibre-coupled diode laser
9 March 2010
LASERS AND DIODES
Dilas has developed a high brightness, conduction-cooled, fibre-coupled diode laser module based on diode laser bars, which provides up to 40W output power from a 100-micron fibre core at a wavelength of 976nm with a numerical aperture of <0.22
Dilas
MWIR uncooled PbSe IR imaging detectors and sensors
9 March 2010
SENSORS AND DETECTORS
New Infrared Technologies has launched a new range of MWIR uncooled PbSe IR imaging detectors and sensors, based on the FPA 2M-32-100, a 32x32 FPA, with 100 microns pixel size, x-y addressed readout method, and fully operative at room temperature
New Infrared Technologies
Conduction-cooled, multi-bar diode laser
9 March 2010
LASERS AND DIODES
ES Technology
Telecentric F-Theta Lens
9 March 2010
LENSES AND OPTICS
Sill Optics
HeNe lasers
9 March 2010
LASERS AND DIODES
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The Route to Mass Adoption of Additive Manufacture in Metal Component Fabrication
Newbury, Berkshire
16 March 2010
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Laser World of Photonics China
Shanghai, China
16-19 March 2010
Messe Muenchen International
Invest in Photonics
Bordeaux, France
18-19 March 2010
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Spring meeting 2010 of the Society for Information Displays (SID) Mid Europe
Dresden, Germany
18-19 March 2010
Fraunhofer IPMS
PICALO 2010
Wuhan, China
23-25 March 2010
Laser Institute of America
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