Exail acquires laser company Leukos

The founder and principal of Puente Solutions Kyle J. Myers has been elected to serve as the 2026 Vice President of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. With her election, Myers joins the SPIE presidential chain. She will serve as president-elect in 2027, and as the Society’s president in 2028. Newly-elected: Myers, McNally, Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Wade, Medicus, and ErdmannTh...

It is reported that researchers from Foshan University, the Institute of Chemical Defense of the Academy of Military Sciences, the National Defense Technology Key Laboratory of Equipment Remanufacturing Technology of the Armored Forces Academy, and Chengdu State owned Jinjiang Machinery Factory have summarized and reported the latest progress of machine learning in defect detection and prediction ...

The advanced testing platform of Liquid Instruments is now available for Apple Vision Pro, providing optical researchers with the first interactive 3D testing system. By integrating the Moku system with camera based visual devices, the efficiency of the laboratory has been significantly improved.The Moku platform utilizes the processing power of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to provide a ...

Snapmaker has opened pre-orders for 20W and 40W laser modules, which are significant upgrades to the modules available on existing Snapmaker machines.Snapmaker says that with the 40W module installed, you will be able to cut 15 mm basswood plywood at a time at a speed of 20 mm/SEC. With 20W, you will cut 10mm at a rate of 10mm/SEC. That's a lot more than Artisan and Snapmaker 2.0 - both are comp...

On quartz sheets, the angular rhombic boron nitride crystals with a thickness of only 1 to 3 microns are as thin as cicada wings, but their energy efficiency is 100 to 10000 times higher than traditional optical crystals. At the opening ceremony of the 2024 Zhongguancun Forum Annual Conference held on April 25th, the world's thinnest known optical crystal was listed as one of the top ten technolog...