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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

APPLICATIONS

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

APPLICATIONS

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

News image3 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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Latest products

XploRA Raman microscope

9 March 2010
SPECTROSCOPYXploRA Raman microscope
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 DIODESHigh brightness, fibre-coupled diode laser
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
Photonic Solutions

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Forthcoming events

The Route to Mass Adoption of Additive Manufacture in Metal Component Fabrication

Newbury, Berkshire
16 March 2010
Association of Laser Users

Laser World of Photonics China

Shanghai, China
16-19 March 2010
Messe Muenchen International

Invest in Photonics

Bordeaux, France
18-19 March 2010
Invest in Photonics

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