Dr. Tom Hausken

Director, Photonics and Compound Semiconductor Products

Joining Strategies Unlimited in 1999, Dr. Hausken conducts the world’s leading market research in lasers and other photonics markets. He has nearly 30 years in the industry, including a joint project with Japan on optical computing while at OIDA, technology policy at the U.S. Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, and in R&D and production at Alcatel and Texas Instruments. He has a PhD from the University of California at Santa Barbara in compound semiconductor photonics.

Research

ANNUAL REVIEW AND FORECAST: Skies may be clearing, but fog still lingers

Gail Overton

Jan. 1, 2011

Although laser industry sales recovered nicely across all sectors in 2010, the aftermath of the recession is still impairing visibility going forward.

Research

LASER MARKETPLACE 2009: Photonics enters a period of high anxiety

Gail Overton

Jan. 1, 2009

The laser business is already feeling the pinch of the global economic recession. The questions are: how long and how severe will the impact be, what laser segments (if any) will...

Ultrafast laser processes are athermal or have low thermal damage (the strip on the left); accomplishing some processes more slowly. As interaction time increases for lasers directed onto a material, the more thermal is the effect, as in Q-switched and CW laser processes (to the right of the ultrafast regime).

Lasers & Sources

Defining ultrafast fiber lasers is a tricky business

Dr. Tom Hausken

Oct. 1, 2008

Ultrafast lasers have long been confined to a sleepy corner of the laser market, reserved for the most exotic R&D applications.