International Year of Light BY GEOFF GIORDANO
As the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies enters the home stretch, LIA’s flagship conference in October will highlight many of the key areas —including medicine, energy and communications — in which light plays a vital role around the world.
The 34th Electro-Optics (ICALEO®
International Congress on Applications of Lasers & ) Oct. 18-22 in Atlanta is where the
rubber meets the road in terms of highlighting the research that drives the commercialization of the light-based applications that affect peoples’ lives.
“Added to the program this year is a focus on lasers used in biomedical and life science applications,” explains ICALEO Congress General Chair Silke Pflueger of DirectPhotonics in Los Gatos, CA. “I hope that it will not just expand (attendee) horizons, but I’m certain that there will be ideas that come out of looking just at what’s on (their) plate every day.”
Among the more than 200 presentations slated for ICALEO 2015 are talks like Laser Surface Deposition of Nb/Ti-Nb on Ti6Al4V Substrate for Biomedical Applications and Characterization of Direct Laser Deposited Low Modulus Ti- 26Nb Alloy on Ti-6Al- 4V for Biomedical Applications. These presentations will be part of the Laser Materials Processing Conference chaired by Christoph Leyens of Fraunhofer IWS.
Meanwhile, the Laser Microprocessing Conference chaired by Michelle Stock of mlstock consulting in Ann Arbor, MI, will be replete with presentations on various laser treatments of glass, sapphire and various thin films for advanced electronics. Yet another medical session will focus on Laser Surface Modification for the Prevention of Biofouling by Infection Causing Escherichia Coli.
While these subjects likely appear rather arcane to the layperson, they are the fundamental beginnings of significant advancements for 21st
century civilization. But as LIA Past
President and current Treasurer Stephen Capp notes, “ICALEO has traditionally been the crystal ball that allows the laser industry to see into its future.”
LIA “has been critical in the dissemination of information about where lasers are at and what’s the future of lasers,” Capp says. “I found early on that ICALEO was looking out ahead. You (can) really see what the universities are doing and be able to understand that and say ‘OK, these are the things I’m going to have to be watching from an industrial standpoint as far as
where the laser is going to make sure that my company is on the edge of where we need to be.’”
This is all vital knowledge to Capp, who serves as CEO of the job shop Laserage in Waukegan, IL. A key part of Laserage’s business is medical prototyping and manufacturing — and understanding the role of newer ultrafast lasers is yet another reason ICALEO is on their radar, with numerous presentations focused on applications using lasers in the pico- and femtosecond regimes.
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