September 27, 2005, Nashua, NH--Fiber lasers and their potential in commercial, industrial, and medical markets will be the focus of several talks at the annual Laser and Photonics Marketplace Seminar, to be held January 23, 2006, at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, CA, in conjunction with Photonics West.
In addition to the keynote address, "Value Added Manufacturing in the Laser Industry," to be given by Phillip Meredith, general manager of JDS Uniphase Laser Products, the first half of the seminar will feature detailed analyses of sales and technology trends in the global laser market, semiconductor laser market, industrial market, and medical market.
The afternoon will be devoted to the Fiber Laser Markets Forum, chaired by Andrew Brown, director of business development at Aculight. The forum will bring together industry experts to present a series of perspectives on the current and future market potential of fiber lasers, from the growing acceptance of high-power fiber lasers for industrial applications to the many emerging opportunities in medicine and the graphic arts. Presentations will include:
--Fiber Laser Technology Review, Andy Held, VP Marketing, Nufern
--Markets and Applications for Low-Power Fiber Lasers, Stuart Woods, VP of Business Development, Southampton Photonics
--Markets and Applications for High-Power Fiber Lasers, Bill Shiner, Director, Industrial Market Development, IPG Photonics Corp.
--Markets and Applications for Single Frequency Fiber Lasers, Pat Edsell, President and CEO, NPPhotonics
--Government Markets and Applications for Fiber Lasers, Mark Neice, Acting Director, High Energy Laser Joint Technology Office, AFRL.
For more information or to register, go to www.marketplaceseminar.com.