Four Years, Three Robots, Eight Partners

27th April 2020 by Leave a Comment

BMBF-funded project “ProLMD”: hybrid additive production of large components with laser material deposition

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PhotonicsViews 2/2020 April/May

14th April 2020 by Leave a Comment

Cover One of the two dominating options of pre-assembled Fast Axis Collimators (FACs) is FACs on bottom tabs. Bottom tabs provide advantages such as better thermal conductivity between the FAC and the mechanical holder as well as a more mechanically robust design. (Source: Fisba) PDF Editorial Imagine: Digitalization in photonic production Prof. Constantin Häfner Pages: […]

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Laser-Engraved Metal to Reduce Environmental Impact

17th February 2020 by Leave a Comment

Anti-fouling, hydrophobic metal or plastic surfaces could soon replace toxic varnishes

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Artificial Intelligence Making Inroads into Industry

12th February 2020 by Leave a Comment

Review: AI for Laser Technology Conference, 6–7 November 2019, Aachen, Germany

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To Get Organic Photovoltaics Rolling

29th January 2020 by Leave a Comment

EffiLayers aims to help the machine manufacturers improve flexible thin-film solar cells and printed electronics

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Climate Data Thanks to Compact Alexandrite Lasers

10th December 2019 by Leave a Comment

Taking 3D printing to the lidar network – measurement campaigns planned worldwide

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Metal AM on the Verge of a Breakthrough

6th November 2019 by Leave a Comment

Alliance of six Fraunhofer institutes presents lighthouse project futureAM

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Smart Lasers Open up New Applications

5th November 2019 by Leave a Comment

Review: LaserForum 2019, 15 October 2019, Ditzingen, Germany

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PhotonicsViews 5/2019 October/November

15th October 2019 by Leave a Comment

Cover Picture: Characterizing spherical, aspherical, free-form lenses with a non-destructive tomographic OCT measuring method for geometrically complex micro-optics (Source: Fh. IPT; cf. Characterizing Spherical, Aspherical, Free-form Lenses, photonicsviews.com, 9th October 2019)

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Constantin Häfner New ILT Director and LLT Chair

16th September 2019 by Leave a Comment

Successor of Reinhart Poprawe named by FRaunhofer ILT and RWTH Aachen

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