Coherent Corp. is a global leader in materials, networking, and lasers for the industrial, communications, electronics, and instrumentation markets. The company is headquartered in Saxonburg, Pennsylvania and manufactures high-quality materials and optics for industrial lasers.
The LightSmyth™ diffraction gratings and grisms from Coherent have set the industry standard in terms of their high performance and quality. With decades of product deployment...
Matrix nanosecond pulsed UV diode-pumped solid-state (DPSS) lasers are available with 5 and 10 W output power at pulse repetition rates from 50 to 300 kHz.
Adjustable ring mode (ARM) lasers, part of the HighLight FL-ARM laser series, target deep welding applications in battery manufacturing for electric vehicles (EVs).
I-Temp micro-pump lasers maintain output power of 400 mW with less than 2 W of power consumption and remain wavelength-locked with a fiber Bragg grating.
Advances in tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS) can improve spatial resolution and stability, enabling longer imaging and spectroscopic characterization of sub-diffraction-...
Prismatic battery can-to-cap welding presents challenges in high-volume production. Welds must be economically viable and deliver a hermetic seal that maintains its integrity ...
Three-photon imaging and two-photon optogenetic stimulation both benefit from the latest laser developments targeted squarely at neuroscience research.
Germany’s biggest photonics trade show came back this year with plenty of new technology. Beyond all the fancy quantum programs, there are several surprising trends in areas including...
As the need for more personalized medicine increases, researchers are finding that new laser wavelengths and integrated multiwavelength laser light engines are enabling high-dimensional...
Coherent will enter into a merger agreement with II-VI on the terms of the March 17, 2021 proposal, therefore terminating the Lumentum merger agreement.
Under the terms of the revised II-VI proposal, Coherent’s shareholders would receive $195.00 in cash and 1.0 II-VI common share for each Coherent common share.
II-VI’s proposal represents a 24.0% premium over the implied value of the Lumentum transaction and a 9.8% premium over the implied value of MKS Instruments’ acquisition proposal...
The offer, which falls on the heels of Lumentum’s recent announcement to buy Coherent, represents a 16% premium over the implied value of the Lumentum transaction.
Laser diode pump modules emitting in a longer wavelength window dramatically lower the thermal load challenges in DPSS lasers, simplifying power scaling.
The acquisition will significantly expand Lumentum's penetration of the more-than-$10 billion market for lasers and photonics outside of communications and 3D sensing.
An innovative laser fluorescence technique, swept confocally aligned planar excitation (SCAPE) microscopy, overcomes the limitations of earlier methods and offers broad life sciences...
Schematic illustration of the box geometry used in the laboratory of Prof. Hebin Li to perform 2D spectroscopy. The non-collinear arrangement of the multiple pulses makes this...
Two-photon microscopy methods need fast on/off digital modulation of the ultrafast laser beam. This whitepaper explains how and why Coherent lasers now provide optional direct...
Researchers in Japan have combined femtosecond pump-probe laser techniques with a STM to study carrier dynamics with sub-nanometer spatial resolution and femtosecond temporal ...
THz-Raman spectroscopy is a proven method to collect robust and simultaneous structural and chemical compositional information. This technology has evolved from a relative novelty...
High-energy, versatile ultrafast ytterbium amplifier suitable for time-resolved spectroscopy and material processing applications.The newest member of the Monaco family, the Monaco...
Axon Fixed Wavelength Femtosecond LasersCompact and cost-effective ultrafast lasers for life sciences and instrumentationThe Axon family of lasers is a suite of compact, air-cooled...
A look is taken at how the industrial approach to reliability in ultrafast scientific lasers has resulted in research tools that deliver on their promise.
Hospitals and other health care providers can benefit greatly from the ability to decontaminate masks and other equipment, thus allowing reuse. Exposure to UV-C radiation has ...
Schematic illustration of the box geometry used in the laboratory of Prof. Hebin Li to perform 2D spectroscopy. The non-collinear arrangement of the multiple pulses makes this...
The Couillaud prize is awarded jointly by Coherent and the Optical Society of America (OSA) in memory of Dr. Bernard J. Couillaud, who was a widely recognized industry leader ...
Astrella HEHighest pulse energy, one-box, titanium:sapphire amplifier for demanding femtosecond scientific applications.Recently introduced at Photonics West (San Francisco 2020...
The HighLight DL HPS industrial diode laser has output of 1 to 4 kW for systems integrators and users performing metal cladding, heat treating, brazing, and welding.
PM1K+, PM3K+, and PM6K+ water-cooled, thermopile sensors incorporate a BB+ broadband coating to measure power of continuous-wave or modulated lasers up to 1 kW, 3 kW, and 6 kW...
This article presents work that has demonstrated the ability to produce laser welds at quality and throughput rates compatible with the requirements of automotive and electronics...
Laser provider Coherent and its Board of Directors has named Andreas “Andy” W. Mattes as the company’s new President and CEO and a member of the Board of Directors.
The Center will be the source for all Coherent HighLight fiber lasers and will house an applications lab containing the full range of Coherent's fiber lasers.
Ti:sapphire and ytterbium femtosecond amplifier technologies—one mature, the other quite dynamic—currently provide complementary performance, so the optimum choice is really application...
An interview with the president and CEO of Coherent reveals a laser industry still changing, driven by commodization and continual advances in technologies and applications.
While laser wavelength and power are obvious critical parameters, there are numerous other factors to consider when specifying an optical microscope illumination system.
A picosecond laser technique satisfies the need for permanent unique device identifier (UDI) marking of stainless steel medical devices without requiring postprocessing.
Optics and photonics contribute hugely to the digital revolution and are in turn furthered by it. Some of these contributions are evident to the average tech-savvy but nonspecialist...
Despite its middle-aged standing in the laser community, the excimer laser is a high-power source of UV and DUV light with no equal in certain critical applications.
A fiber-to-fiber coupler enables the use of replaceable fiber-optic cables so that integral components of the fiber laser are not exposed to optomechanical damage in harsh industrial...
The RQB fiber optic cables have use with fiber lasers operating at continuous-wave power levels up to 1.5 kW, as well as pulsed lasers as high as 1 MW.
The HyperRapid NX product range includes 1064 nm output models with pulse energies to 250 μJ (10 ps pulse duration, typical) at repetition rates to 2 MHz.
A low-fill-factor, 35 W continuous-wave-rated diode laser bar emitting at 1470 nm is designed for fiber coupling and optical beam combining, as well as direct applications in ...
The desire of optogenetics researchers to stimulate and probe a higher number of neurons in larger volumes with improved specificity—and at single-neuron resolution—is driving...
The femtosecond-scale pulse durations of ultrafast lasers are ideal for science, capturing physical and biological processes that normally happen too fast to measure.
AVIA series Q-switched, diode-pumped, solid-state lasers are designed for materials processing applications in microelectronics fabrication and packaging, such as via hole drilling...
DNA sequencing based on laser-excited fluorescence is characterized by dramatic increases in throughput, equally impressive reductions in cost, and diverse technological innovations...
The Chameleon Discovery high-power, dual-wavelength laser is continuously tunable from 680 to 1300 nm, with short pulse width (100 fs) and power up to 1.4 W.
Fluorescence detection techniques for applications such as cytometry, microscopy, and sequencing continue to advance with support from evolving laser sources such as optically...
With their high-power density, high efficiency, and long life, laser-diode arrays are the essential light source for materials processing, laser pumping, and other applications...
The RAPID NX laser is designed for industrial applications including high-value marking, surface structuring, photovoltaics manufacturing, and LED dicing.
The LabMax-Pro SSIM laser power meter works with the company’s PowerMax-Pro sensors to enable high speed measurements of lasers from 300 nm to 11 micron.
By taking advantage of expertise from the world of industrial lasers, ultrafast lasers have become simpler and more reliable, yielding improvements in cost of data and data throughput...
A new generation of 1055 nm ultrafast fiber lasers maximizes the productivity of nonlinear microscopy systems. The lasers promise to enable the translation of such label-free ...
Green-, blue-, and red-emitting laser diodes are used alone or in combination for multifarious uses, often with enhancements such as fiber-coupling and wavelength stabilization...
The Daytona HE UV fiber laser provides output at 355 nm in nanosecond and shorter pulses with peak powers of >45 kW (at repetition rates up to 525 kHz).
At SPIE Photonics West 2014 (1 to 6 Feb. 2014; San Francisco, CA), Coherent, Inc. introduced a high-speed, large-area, damage-resistant thin-film optical detector that is not ...
Harbin Institute of Technology researchers have created a high-quality Fabry-Perot interferometer (FPI) cavity with flat axial surfaces suitable for sensing the refractive index...
Coherent has unveiled an optical bus that combines multiple laser wavelengths into a single instrument (for example, to simultaneously excite multiple fluorophores).