Rarely a week goes by that some company doesn’t offer to send us their latest and greatest laser. You know the type — couple of aluminum extrusions, Class 4 diode flopping around in the breeze, and no ...

“Fiber lasers are good for engraving metal, and plastic while diode lasers are good for engraving/cutting wood, leather, and glass. You normally need to purchase at least two laser engravers with ...

The WeCreat Vision laser cutter and engraver embodies the shift to enclosed, user-friendly machines, suitable for home or small office use. Its compact size, powerful performance, auto-lifting, and ...

Makers, designers and hobbyists looking for a desktop cutter that can be equipped with either a laser or blade. May be interested in the xTool M1 a precise hybrid laser and blade cutter at an ...

As anyone who has used an FDM printer can tell you, it’s certainly not the magical replicator it’s often made out to be. The limitations of the platform are numerous — ranging from anisotropic ...

The Creality Falcon A1 Pro arrived well-packaged with protective foam securing every component during shipping. The machine comes nearly fully assembled, requiring ...

Interfacing laser driver circuits with commercially available laser diodes at high data rates can be a complicated and frustrating task. This application note is intended to briefly address this topic ...

Ever wonder why projector systems and televisions doesn’t use laser illumination? It isn’t for safety reasons, and it isn’t for efficiency reasons—laser diodes have efficiencies ranging from 30 to 50 ...

High-power direct-diode lasers have emerged as a competitive option for applications like cladding, welding and heat treating. Stuart Woods of Coherent explains why the basic construction and ...

The basis of a solid-state diode laser is, of course, the diode. Laser diodes can have different emission wavelength—most of them have between 405 nm to 808 nm. The diodes usually have TO3, TO5, TO9, ...

Laser is of prime importance in Optical memories, Fiber optic communications, Military applications, Surgical procedures, CD players, Printers etc. Various forms of lasers like Gallium Arsenide laser, ...