LFW invites participation in new photonics training blog

Nov. 13, 2008

November 14, 2008--In January 2008, Laser Focus World (Nashua, NH) began its first online blog: Larry's VC View from entrepreneur Larry Marshall. Now, we are proud to announce our second online blog, "Working Smart in Photonics," from Sarah Diggs, a leading authority on technical training and process improvement for the photonics industry.

November 14, 2008--In January 2008, Laser Focus World (Nashua, NH) began its first online blog: Larry's VC View (see www.laserfocusworld.com/articles/330419) from entrepreneur Larry Marshall. Now, we are proud to announce our second online blog, "Working Smart in Photonics," from Sarah Diggs, a leading authority on technical training and process improvement for the photonics industry.

"Steve Anderson and LFW have graciously asked me to write a biweekly blog focusing on some very practical and necessary skills needed by optics and laser practitioners; such as the correct way to handle, clean, and inspect optics, how to perform a perfect optical alignment quickly, how are optics supposed to behave and what are you supposed to do when they don't, and much more," says Diggs in her first blog entry in November.

Diggs has successfully developed and launched technical training courses and certification programs for the photonics industry since 1999 and her Laser Technology Series program (http://opticstraining.com) currently has more than 10,000 corporate trainees on-course via corporate intranet learning systems. Some of her clients include Spectra-Physics, Coherent, KLA-Tencor, Carl Zeiss Meditec, JDSU, Lightwave Electronics, SPIE, NASA, The Boeing Company, Northrop Grumman, and the USMC and USAF. Her blog encourages audience participation, and will begin with a series of blogs on the correct way to handle, clean, and inspect optics.

To access Diggs' blog, click the BLOGS link at the top of the www.laserfocusworld.com home-page navigation bar and follow the link.

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