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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

INDUSTRY

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

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News features

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

HELIOS consortium advances research in CMOS photonics

18 January 2010
Phase-one goals for the large-scale CMOS photonics project, HELIOS, have been met or exceeded by the 19 partners involved, according to French organisation CEA-Leti, coordinator of the pan-European consortium