Member Innovations Coherent’s New Generation of CO Lasers opening up a range of possible uses.


A new generation of carbon monoxide (CO) lasers from Coherent, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) (Nasdaq: COHR) promise enhanced processing characteristics for materials processing applications ranging from glass cutting and via drilling to fractional skin resurfacing. While CO lasers were first developed decades ago, practical limitations in their lifetime and operating characteristics restricted them to a handful of niche low power laboratory applications. Now, technological breakthroughs at Coherent have yielded a new class of high power CO lasers with similar lifetime, reliability and maintenance characteristics as the company’s highly regarded, slab discharge CO2


lasers,


CO lasers output at a wavelength of approximately 5 µm, as opposed to 10.6 µm for CO2


5 µm, this leads to advantages in various materials processing applications.


which transmit at the longer (CO2 For more information, visit www.coherent.com.


Lasers for Fast Internet in Space – Space Technology from Aachen On June 23, the second Sentinel mission was launched from the space mission launch center in Kourou with a critical component of Aachen on board. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT and Tesat-Spacecom have jointly developed the know-how for space-qualified laser components. For the Sentinel mission the diode laser pump module of the Laser Communication Terminal LCT was planned and constructed in Aachen in cooperation with the manufacturer of the LCT, Tesat-Spacecom, and the Ferdinand Braun Institute.


After eight years of preparation, in the early morning of June 23 the time had come: in Kourou in French Guiana, the European Space Agency launched the Sentinel-2A satellite aboard a VEGA launcher. It is the first of two satellites which will be used to improve environmental monitoring under the European Copernicus program. To transfer the extensive image data, a new technology is being used: The data are sent to a relay satellite with a laser beam and sent from there to the ground station.


Both Sentinel-2 satellites will monitor the status of forests and farmland from space. It should also provide data on the pollution of lakes and coastal waters.


For more information, visit www.ilt.fraunhofer.de/en. 20 LIATODAY FOCUS: LASERS IN MANUFACTURING JULY/AUGUST 2015


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Members In Motion


Annette Doyle Assumes Role of Managing Director at TRUMPF Limited, UK Effective July 1, 2015, Annette Doyle took on the role of Managing Director of TRUMPF Limited, the UK subsidiary of the TRUMPF Group, located in Luton, Bedfordshire. She succeeds Mr. Scott Simpson who will leave TRUMPF after more than 20 years to pursue his own individual projects.


Annette Doyle leaves her position at TRUMPF Inc. in Farmington, CT where she most recently served as Assembly Manager for TRUMPF machines produced in the US. The department manufactures 350 machines a year and her production planning and lean manufacturing initiatives enabled the company to increase production and quality goals during the economic recovery. Prior to this position, she served as Training Manager. While at TRUMPF Inc., Doyle has been recognized by The Manufacturing Institute, Deloitte, University of Phoenix, and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers with a Woman in Manufacturing STEP (Science, Technology, Engineering and Production) Award for excellence and leadership in manufacturing.


For more information, visit www.us.trumpf.com.


Rofin Announces Management Change & Stays Focused on Continued Growth & Innovation ROFIN-SINAR Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: RSTI), one of the world’s leading developers and manufacturers of high- performance laser beam sources and laser-based solutions, announced that Thomas Merk, currently Chief Operating Officer of the ROFIN Laser Micro and Marking Group, will succeed Günther Braun as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, effective July 1, 2015. Also at that time, Mr. Braun will resign as a director of the Company and Mr. Merk will assume the vacant position and become a member of the Company’s Board of Directors. Mr. Braun will remain with the Company for a period of time to assist with the transition of duties.


“We are very grateful to Günther for his contributions


throughout his 26-year career with the Company,” said Dr. Peter Wirth, Chairman of the Company’s Board of Directors. “During his tenure, he made a considerable contribution towards strengthening ROFIN’s strategic position and has led the company through many phases of technological innovation, most recently the successful introduction of our third generation of highpower fiber lasers.”


For more information, visit www.rofin.com.


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