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    • nLIGHT

    Vancouver, WA 98665

    COMPANY OVERVIEW

    About nLIGHT

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    5408 NE 88th St
    Bldg E
     Vancouver, WA 98665
    United States
    http://www.nlight.net
    360-566-4460
    360-546-1960

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    Vertically integrated supplier of high-performance lasers which enable innovations in materials processing, defense and medical applications. Develops and manufactures direct diode and fiber lases based on industry-leading semiconductor laser technology.

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    FIGURE 1. An example of laser cutting 50-mm-thick materials.
    Laser Processing

    Ultrahigh-power laser cutting continues growth path

    Antonio Raspa
    The laser cutting market occupies the largest share among many industrial applications. In recent years, laser cutting has seen considerable growth in parallel to the increased...
    FIGURE 1. An AFX laser incorporates all-fiber beam shaping, which allows rapid switching of the output beam size and shape. The beam profile can be tuned between true single-mode and a ring, plus a variety of shapes in between. When interacting with the workpiece, ring- and saddle-shaped beams create significantly less soot and spatter.
    Laser Processing

    Ring beams change the game for powder-bed fusion

    Rob Martinsen
    Fiber beam shaping plays a key role on the path to laser powder-bed fusion for additive manufacturing of metals.
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    Executive Forum

    What's next for the competitive laser market?

    Peter Fretty
    nLight’s CEO shares his company’s inspirational story and an outlook for the future of photonics.
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    Laser Focus World announces 2021 Innovators Awards

    John Lewis
    For the fourth straight year, Laser Focus World held its Innovators Awards program, which celebrates the disparate and innovative technologies, products, and systems found in ...
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    Industrial Laser Solutions

    Laser beam shaping for battery welding

    Tim Morris
    Single-mode and ring beam welding examples for copper and aluminum battery applications are compared.
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    Laser Focus World announces 2019 Innovators Awards

    John Lewis
    For the second year, Laser Focus World held its Innovators Awards program, which celebrates the disparate and innovative technologies, products, and systems found in the photonics...
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    Lasers & Sources

    LASER World of PHOTONICS 2019 exhibition to showcase latest in photonics

    Here at Laser Focus World, we reached out to companies to learn ahead of time what photonics products and technologies they will be demonstrating on the exhibit floor.
    FIGURE 1. Shown at left is the fiber cross-section (top) and refractive index profile (bottom) for a feeding fiber with three guiding regions. Simulations (right) show the beam profile coupled into the guiding regions for different perturbation conditions. The beam homogenizes azimuthally as it propagates in the fiber.
    Lasers & Sources

    High-power Fiber Lasers: Fiber laser has all-fiber tunable beam quality

    Dahv Kliner
    A newly developed fiber laser provides real-time tunability of beam characteristics directly from the laser output fiber using an all-fiber mechanism.
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    Industrial Laser Solutions

    Fiber laser technology improves metal cutting

    Brian Victor
    Tunable beam quality enables optimized cutting of thin and thick metal.

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    Executive Forum

    Photonics Business Moves: December 1, 2023

    Lee Dubay
    Here are the top four photonics business moves that made headlines during the week ending December 1, 2023.
    Lasers & Sources

    nLIGHT IPO filing sets the stage for another publicly traded laser company

    Conard Holton
    Maker of high-power semiconductor and fiber lasers has registered with the U.S. SEC.
    FIGURE 1. High-power semiconductor laser brilliance and Moore’s Law are compared.
    Lasers & Sources

    Laser Diodes: The power of brilliance — the past and future of high-power semiconductor lasers

    With continuously improving efficiency and power, laser diodes will continue to displace legacy technologies, both changing the way things are made and enabling new things to ...
    FIGURE 1. The nLIGHT alta next-generation fiber laser (a) and examples of its high-brightness performance (b).
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    FIGURE 1. The cylindrical surface of a bore for an automobile engine is micromachined using a 2 kW single-mode fiber laser from IPG Photonics, then sprayed with plasma to create a hard coating that replaces conventional cylinder liners. Laser-machined microgrooves help the resulting coating to adhere to the cylinder.
    Lasers & Sources

    Photonics Products: High-power Fiber Lasers: Kilowatt-level fiber lasers mature

    John Wallace
    Today's high-power CW fiber lasers have become naturals at reliable, capable materials processing.
    FIGURE 1. nLIGHT alta industrial fiber lasers feature a rack-mount up to 1kW (left) and a stand-alone chassis to 4kW (right).
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    Lasers & Sources

    nLIGHT fiber laser offers high beam quality for cutting and welding

    The alta fiber laser is available in powers from 500 W to 1 kW.
    FIGURE 1. Chirally coupled core (3C) optical fiber mode propagation (a), a 33 μm core-diameter fiber image (b), simulated modal loss vs. wavelength for the two lowest fiber modes (c), and mode beat analysis for well-aligned and offset 33 μm fibers are shown. A spectral beating analysis that looks at the magnitude of fiber mode beating as a function of misalignment of a launched signal shows effectively no beat, indicating high-purity single-mode operation.
    Fiber Optics

    Fiber Lasers: 3C optical fibers improve large-mode-area MOPA designs

    Rob Martinsen
    Chirally coupled core (3C) optical fibers allow large-mode areas, near-diffraction-limited beam quality, and effectively zero modal pointing, owing to designed-in higher-order...
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    Lasers & Sources

    SOLID-STATE LASERS: VBG upper-state pumping benefits DPSS lasers

    Michael Atchley
    Properly optimized volume Bragg grating (VBG)-based upper-state laser diode pumping leads to performance and power improvements for diode-pumped solid-state (DPSS) lasers.
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    nLIGHT raises $17.5 million to accelerate semiconductor laser growth

    Gail Overton
    Vancouver, WA--nLIGHT Corporation received $17.5 million in fully subscribed Series E financing to support its high-power semiconductor laser technologies.
    Major manufacturers in North America and Europe drive segmentation of the global laser-diode market.
    Lasers & Sources

    Geographic trends will shift in global laser-diode market

    The worldwide laser-diode market can best be described as an oligopoly; an industry of many, controlled by a few.