In March 2010 we informed you about the launch of the PolyBright project.

After almost two years their first Newsletter is published and early results can be viewed on the project webpages.

POLYBRIGHT is an FP7 Project on Extending the Process Limits of Laser Polymer Welding with High-Brilliance Beam Sources.

Since October 2009, 18 partners from 9 countries have been working together in POLYBRIGHT with the aim of developing high power, high brilliance lasers with new wavelengths between 1500 and 1900 nm …

Würzburg physicists have created a microlaser with unique properties. They have also succeeded in making the laser behave chaotically. In future, it may be possible to use this for a new, secure form of data transmission.

Triggering chaotic behavior in the microcosm: this is what Stephan Reitzenstein and his team …

Photonics West, being held next year in San Francisco, USA, is one of the biggest laser related conferences. In the frame of Photonic West 2012 a conference entitled:

Laser Applications in Microelectronic and Optoelectronic Manufacturing (LAMOM) XVII

is being held. The aim of this conference is to provide a forum …

The Manufacturing Engineering Centre (MEC) at the School of Engineering, Cardiff University is looking to recruit a Research Associate (RA) in the area of laser processing.

THIS POST IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE

The responsibilities associated with the post are focused on process development, implementation and utilisation of a wide range …

The Association of Industrial Laser Users (AILU) is to hold a workshop on ‘Advanced micro-manufacturing with lasers’.

The applications of laser micro-processing, a key technology in 21st Century manufacturing, span micro-electronics, solar energy, medical instrumentation and transportation; and this timely event includes wide ranging reviews from international speakers and live …

Two important breakthroughs by European researchers have brought an emerging nano-scale fabrication technology out of the lab and into the real world. The technique promises lower cost production of nano-devices at higher resolutions.

Laser interference lithography can produce very high-resolution nano-scale surface patterns at low cost, and now researchers working …

A company which combines unique expertise in micro engineering and design to make ultra-precise parts for laser experiments has been launched.

Scitech Precision Ltd., located at STFC's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in Oxfordshire, is based on 30 years of experience at the laboratory, making it unique within Europe.

The spin-out …

A combination of waveguides and microfluidics is easily achieved through femtosecond-laser micromachining.

An article posted on the SPIE website describes how and suggests this is a promising technique for fabricating optofluidic devices.

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Femtosecond laser ablation is applied to change the surface structure of metals, such that it lifts liquid by capillary action at a speed that would make nature envious.

This article posted on the Azonano website describes how this was done and some possible applications.