Laser Electronics ((EXCLUSIVE))

As a leading provider of laser manufacturing solutions, LPKF Laser & Electronics helps to create more powerful electronic systems and increase functionality and efficiency for a broad range of applications and industries.

Laser Electronics

LPKF is a leading supplier of laser-based solutions for the technology industry. Our laser systems are vital in the manufacture of printed circuit boards, microchips, automotive parts, solar panels and many other components.

Our employees are laser technology experts and know how to integrate lasers as a tool into powerful machines. With that we have considerable influence on progress in a range of high-tech sectors. The outcome is faster, smaller and more energy efficient products and, thus, improvements in mobility, networking, electricity generation and digital entertainment.

Sunshine mainly relies on laser technology for global manufacturing and processing industries related products and application services, is a similar product and service categories most comprehensive and professional precision laser technology enterprises.

The MOGLabs FSC is an ultra-fast PID servo controller for high-bandwidth laser locking, with separate control loops for fast (current) and slow (piezo) feedback for complete control of laser frequencyVisit page >>

Vescent offers a varied line of low-noise, high-speed laser & photonics control electronics. We offer analog and digital interfaces to laser locking servos, offset phase lock servos, and temperature control servos.

Compound semiconductors such as AlGaAs, InGaAIP, InGaN, and ZnO are typically adopted as the element material instead of conventional silicon used for LSIs, transistors, and diodes, which feature poor transition probability (probability of current turning into light) that make it unsuitable for laser diodes.

The difference between a laser diode and LED is summarized in the table below. Laser diodes are characterized by a single waveform with narrow spectral width and highly directional light with uniform phase, making it easy to control the energy.

Carbon dioxide and helium-neon lasers are the two commonly used gas lasers used in tactical military applications. High-power lasers, such as carbon dioxide gas dynamic lasers, hydrogen fluoride/deuterium fluoride lasers and chemical oxy-iodine lasers, which can generate mega-watts of CW power for directed-energy weapon applications, are also broadly classified as gas lasers. These lasers are pumped by gas dynamics or by chemical reactions. Focus in this concluding part of the article is on gas laser electronics with emphasis on the role of electronics in gas lasers having potential for tactical military applications--Dr Anil K. Maini and Nakul Maini

Carbon dioxide laser-based range finders and laser radar and helium-neon laser-cavity-based ring-laser gyroscope inertial navigation sensors are among the common military applications exploiting use of gas lasers. In addition, such gas lasers as gas dynamic carbon dioxide lasers, chemical oxy-iodine lasers, all gas-phase iodine lasers, hydrogen fluoride and deuterium fluoride lasers, though not electrically or optically pumped, these are largely exploited to build high-power directed-energy weapons. We shall, however, confine our discussion in this article to electrically-excited gas lasers having military applications.

The Northwestern University Laser and Electronics Design core facility exists to give Northwestern researchers a competitive edge in the fields of electronics and optical engineering when compared to research institutions that do not provide such support. NU-LED offers professional design, prototyping & fabrication, integration & automation, and testing/repair services in these fields. NU-LED also maintains a collection of professional quality electrical test instruments which is available for short term rent. Our staff provides educational assistance to students, postdocs, and faculty through both informal consultation and classes. We assist groups with developing, monitoring, and troubleshooting to quickly diagnose any issues with digital, analog, and laser based systems.

The NAZAR project, which contains technology that very few countries in the world are working on, is considered a strategically important project for Turkey with its laser soft-kill capability. The system was developed with the ability to detect EO and IR-guided missiles and use laser-blinding dazzling and soft-kill techniques against missiles with this characteristic. This will make it possible to neutralize EO /IR-guided missiles from a long distance. 041b061a72