PhotonicsViewsPub Date : 2024-05-29DOI: 10.1002/phvs.202470305
{"title":"“In tune with lasers”","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/phvs.202470305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/phvs.202470305","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Freedom Photonics is a subsidiary of Luminar Semiconductor, a US manufacturer of semiconductor lasers, photodetectors and high-functionality PIC-based products. EPIC's technology manager for quantum technology and PICs Ivan Nikitski interviewed the company's president, Dr Milan Mashanovitch.</p>","PeriodicalId":101021,"journal":{"name":"PhotonicsViews","volume":"21 3","pages":"16-17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/phvs.202470305","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141165041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PhotonicsViewsPub Date : 2024-05-29DOI: 10.1002/phvs.202400022
Daniel Holder, Manuel Henn, Matthias Buser, Christian Hagenlocher, Volkher Onuseit, Thomas Graf
{"title":"Bridging additive and subtractive manufacturing","authors":"Daniel Holder, Manuel Henn, Matthias Buser, Christian Hagenlocher, Volkher Onuseit, Thomas Graf","doi":"10.1002/phvs.202400022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/phvs.202400022","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Additive manufacturing with laser powder-bed fusion (PBF-LB/M) can generate complex metal parts with a high degree of design freedom, which are already being used in various industries. However, the PBF-LB/M process faces some limitations in achievable surface quality and feature size. To address these challenges, we have developed a novel hybrid manufacturing approach that combines additive manufacturing via PBF-LB/M with subtractive manufacturing via ultrafast laser machining. By alternating between additive and subtractive processes, it is possible to not only mitigate the limitations of each process but also to introduce new functionality. This synergistic combination enables the creation of parts with superior surface finishes and deep and narrow internal features that are not possible with a single method alone.</p>","PeriodicalId":101021,"journal":{"name":"PhotonicsViews","volume":"21 3","pages":"50-53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/phvs.202400022","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141164827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PhotonicsViewsPub Date : 2024-05-29DOI: 10.1002/phvs.202400016
Jochen Speiser, Raoul-Amadeus Lorbeer, Pirmin Schweizer, Benjamin Ewers
{"title":"Thin disks with a wedge","authors":"Jochen Speiser, Raoul-Amadeus Lorbeer, Pirmin Schweizer, Benjamin Ewers","doi":"10.1002/phvs.202400016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/phvs.202400016","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Over the last decade, multipass thin-disk amplifiers have allowed astonishing laser properties to be achieved, but one drawback of these systems lies in their size and complexity. We show here an alternative approach with a wedged thin-disk crystal significantly shrinking and simplifying multipass thin-disk amplification.</p>","PeriodicalId":101021,"journal":{"name":"PhotonicsViews","volume":"21 3","pages":"46-49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/phvs.202400016","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141164819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PhotonicsViewsPub Date : 2024-05-29DOI: 10.1002/phvs.202400017
Oliver Bocksrocker, Kai Fiechtner, Matthias Beranek, Nicolai Speker, Tim Hesse
{"title":"Unlocking opportunities for the EV industry with beam shaping of high-power lasers","authors":"Oliver Bocksrocker, Kai Fiechtner, Matthias Beranek, Nicolai Speker, Tim Hesse","doi":"10.1002/phvs.202400017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/phvs.202400017","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The electric vehicle (EV) industry is witnessing unprecedented growth, driven by the global shift towards sustainable transportation. Laser welding has emerged as an important technology in this sector, offering a welcome way of reducing production costs and expanding the options in manufacturing new batteries and e-drive technology. While laser sources have rapidly evolved, introducing power levels of 24 kW and beyond, the efficient application of such high laser power in welding processes remains a challenge.</p>","PeriodicalId":101021,"journal":{"name":"PhotonicsViews","volume":"21 3","pages":"22-25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/phvs.202400017","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141164820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PhotonicsViewsPub Date : 2024-05-29DOI: 10.1002/phvs.202470306
{"title":"Flexible laser plastic welding as an addition to AM","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/phvs.202470306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/phvs.202470306","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101021,"journal":{"name":"PhotonicsViews","volume":"21 3","pages":"21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/phvs.202470306","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141164804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PhotonicsViewsPub Date : 2024-05-29DOI: 10.1002/phvs.202400019
Antonio Castelo-Porta
{"title":"Photonic technologies for implantable medical devices","authors":"Antonio Castelo-Porta","doi":"10.1002/phvs.202400019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/phvs.202400019","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Medical implants have benefited in the last years from established photonics manufacturing processes such as laser cutting and marking, but also from emerging ones such as additive manufacturing and surface structuring. The orthopedic sector has been using them for many years to improve the efficiency of the manufacturing processes and as a way to provide traceability and quality control for each part. Their use has been extended to a large number of new implants. We will review in this article some novel photonics technologies applied to the manufacturing and post-processing of medical implants.</p>","PeriodicalId":101021,"journal":{"name":"PhotonicsViews","volume":"21 3","pages":"18-21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/phvs.202400019","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141165009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PhotonicsViewsPub Date : 2024-05-29DOI: 10.1002/phvs.202400021
Gwenn Paillier, Niklas Prätzsch
{"title":"Beam shaping to tackle laser powder bed fusion challenges","authors":"Gwenn Paillier, Niklas Prätzsch","doi":"10.1002/phvs.202400021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/phvs.202400021","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Additive manufacturing (AM), a term synonymous with the future of fabrication, has revolutionized industries by offering unparalleled flexibility in design and production. At the heart of this transformative technology is laser-based powder bed fusion of metals (PBF-LB/M), the process with the highest geometrical resolution having the largest market share (86 %, Wohlers) amongst all AM processes. By selectively melting and fusing powder material layer by layer with a laser, PBF-LB/M enables the creation of complex and high-strength components, previously unthinkable with traditional subtractive manufacturing methods.</p>","PeriodicalId":101021,"journal":{"name":"PhotonicsViews","volume":"21 3","pages":"30-35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/phvs.202400021","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141164822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}