Technology demonstration step triggers milestone payment to Silex Systems.

Dual-laser approach uses green and infrared wavelengths to weld copper parts.

Surgeons tell an application panel about the tissue-discriminating tools that they need to move endoscopy to a new, smarter level.

Focus on technologies, trends and markets leaves standing room only.

Conference hears developments in emerging sector of laser welding of polymers.

Panel session on “unmet needs” at Munich show highlights the wildly different challenges of diagnostic and therapeutic applications.

Two week turnaround to manufacture custom designed micro-optics devices.

Portable, real-time airborne asbestos detector based on laser scattering, developed at UK's University of Hertfordshire.

Improved infrared sensitivity of laser-enhanced material could be used in night-vision goggles.

Fully scaled laser system expected to offer flight range of around 300 meters for surveillance applications.

Tablet-mounted infrared cameras offer wealth of potential applications in medicine and security, hears the conference.

Rugged, pan-European novel industrial welding solution braves the factory floor.