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Nuburu awarded US patent for copper welding with blue laser 05 Apr 2021 Expands firm's IP portfolio, covers all potential apps of copper welding in automotive and e-mobility. New U.S. patent further expands Nuburu’s IP portfolio.Nuburu, a developer of high power, blue laser technology, has been awarded a US patent covering copper welding with blue laser; Patent 10,940,562 is for blue laser applications of welding copper material and its alloys. The patent joins Nuburu’s IP portfolio that grew substantially in January 2021 with the addition of seven patents across 3D printing and m...

Semiconductor equipment market set to reach new highs 17 Mar 2021 Industry group SEMI predicts three straight years of record-breaking sales, with spending expected to top $80BN in 2022. Boosted by the global response to the coronavirus pandemic, spending on equipment needed to manufacture semiconductor chips will hit record levels both this year and in 2022. According to the Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) industry representative body, fab equipment spending of around $64 billion in 2020 - itself a record total - will rise to $74 billion this year. And alth...

Effect Photonics raises $37M to develop single-chip coherent optics 12 Mar 2021 First close of its Series C round, co-led by Smile Invest and existing investor Innovation Industries. 10Gbps 40km DWDM narrow tunable SFP+ transceiver for mobile fronthaul.Effect Photonics has this week announced the $37M (€31M) first close of its Series C funding round, co-led by Smile Invest together with existing investor Innovation Industries Fund, exactly one year after announcing the tape-out of its Manta full photonic integration coherent PIC (photonic integrated circuit). Smile Invest is joined in ...

Photonics West 2021: Microendoscopy shows details of neuron responses 11 Mar 2021 Yeka Aponte investigates how behaviors are regulated and the implications for pain relief. Pain and gain: the brain's response Studies of neural behavior using microendoscopy techniques are enhancing the understanding of how the brains of mice respond to both appetite and pain. Presenting in the SPIE Photonics West Digital Forum, Yeka Aponte from the National Institutes of Health and Johns Hopkins University discussed how this could ultimately point towards novel pain relief treatments for humans. "We are stud...

Photonics West 2021: high power ultrafast lasers – quo vadis? 11 Mar 2021 Talk considers challenges in power scaling ultrafast sources; state of the art in thin disk multipass lasers, and their future. Dr. Marwan Abdou Ahmed from U Stuttgart IFSW.Monday’s LASE Hot Topics presentation by Dr. Marwan Abdou Ahmed, of the University of Stuttgart, Germany, focused on high-power ultrafast lasers. His talk was enigmatically titled “Development of high power ultrafast lasers: Quo vadis?” He considered the challenges in power scaling of ultrafast lasers, the state of the art in hi...