Member Innovations


Laser Cutting Technology adds Value to Textile Manufacturers More often than not, laser cutting has been involved in textiles and products you might not readily think of: apparel, accessories, footwear and home furnishing manufacturers. Especially within the category of apparel manufacturers, this technique encompasses a broad spectrum of applications for example, lasers are used in the creation of high performance activewear.


Laser-cut designs are also showing up on fashion ramps around the world. Laser cuts, complemented by technological advancements that facilitate mass production, are now showing off intricate and irreproducible designs — across all types of fabrics. For textile manufacturers, lasers are now a necessary and valuable piece of the process.


For more information, visit www.rpmclasers.com.


Nufern Introduces a 100 W NuQ Pulsed Fiber Laser for Industrial Marking and Related Application Nufern, a leading US manufacturer of specialty optical fibers, fiber lasers and amplifiers, and fiber optic gyro coils, announces a new high power 100 W NuQ™ industrial pulsed fiber marking laser.


The latest addition to the NuQ series is a 100 W average power, air cooled Q-switch fiber laser. The 100 W NuQ features a Gaussian pulse shape and excellent beam quality. It has a rugged, air cooled, monolithic architecture that provides an extremely long life expectancy with no maintenance requirements.


For more information, visit www.nufern.com. CWELCOME NEW


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24 LIATODAY FOCUS: LASERS IN MANUFACTURING MARCH/APRIL 2016 ORPORATE MEMBER


The new autoloader is a direct result of ROFIN’s long-term cooperation with leading manufacturers of medical devices, endoscopes, stents and hypotubes. The space-saving system has been specifically designed for automated handling of flexible tubes with diameters from 0.3 to 1 mm (optionally 4 mm). Typical cutting times for hypotubes are less than a minute, which requires frequent reloading of sensitive tube material. The length-adjustable storage container accommodates several hundred tubes. A pneumatic/magnetic operating gripper picks up each tube and transfers it to the StarCut Tube processing system. As the autoloader and the StarCut Tube SL both require very little floorspace, an area of 3.2 x 1 mm is big enough to accommodate two complete laser processing systems with automatic parts loading.


For more information, visit www.rofin.com.


Members In Motion


Green Photonics Award During this year’s Photonics West conference in San Francisco, DirectPhotonics and Technical University of Berlin were awarded with the Green Photonics Award for their joint project about energy efficient resonant pumping of Er:YAG lasers with wavelength stabilized high brightness diode lasers of the DirectPump1500 series. The SPIE Photonics West Green Photonics Award recognizes outstanding contributions to green photonic technologies that enable a saving of energy or waste and a better protection of the environment.


The paper Comparative Study of Broadband, Narrowband & Multi-wavelength Resonant Pumping of Er:YAG Lasers is recognized for its impact on the worldwide monitoring of the etiological and accelerating factors of global warming. In order to enable an even better observation of the global warming gases carbon dioxide and methane, satellite based sensing is an important contribution. The new highly efficient, multiple wavelength diode pumping of Er:YAG lasers enables the building of compact, lightweight and less energy consuming lasers for space born LIDAR measurements.


For more information, visit www.directphotonics.com.


Successful Partnerships Lead to Innovative Solutions for Medical Device Manufacturing At Medtec 2016 ROFIN showcases new solutions developed in close cooperation with leading medical device manufacturers. From April 12-14 the laser specialist not only presents the new autoloader for the StarCut Tube SL but also integrated systems for all aspects of laser material processing in medical device manufacturing, like CNC- and joystick-controlled fine welding with MPS and Select, and efficient marking solutions for traceability of medical devices.


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