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2023 FEB 11 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- Investigators discuss new findings in gold nanoparticles. According to news originating from [...]

The article focuses on the use of femtosecond fiber lasers in materials processing and their advantages to commercial laser manufacturers. Among the femtosecond fiber laser technology used by manufacturers include nonlinear optical loop mirror (NOLM) mode-locking, fiber chirped-pulse amplification (FCPA) technology, and passive SESAM mode-locking technology. The manufacturers that create ultrafast fiber laser include Menlo Systems, IMRA America, and Calmar.

The article discusses several acquisitions, mergers, and joint ventures including partnership between research and development company IMRA America and the company Jenoptik Laser, and an agreement between simulation software developer MASA Group and software systems integrator Systematic.

Presents information on the winners of the `Laser Focus World' Commercial Technology Achievement Awards for 2001. IMRA America; SDL Inc.; Deltronic Crystal Industries Inc.

IMRA's Femtolite series of ultrafast lasers continue to push the barriers of compact reliability. The FX-100 is the result of over a decade of IMRA research and development into fiber-based [...]

The article reports that ultrafast fiber laser maker IMRA America and TRUMPF declared their business alliance to render combined capabilities to use patents for production of fiber lasers within the picosecond field of use.

The article reports on the move of the researchers at IMRA America in developing a single-mode optical fiber that contains the biggest core that has a diameter of 84µm in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It states that the core has also an effective mode area of (Aeff) of 3600 µm2 at 1µm, where the mode area is limited to a single mode due to its low numbers. It cites that by freezing thermal stress during fabrication of the fiber, low numbers can be obtained.

The article offers international news briefs related to the laser industry for the year 2007. CVI Inc. signed an agreement with Barloworld Scientific to acquire Melles Griot. Rofin-Sinar U.K. Ltd. has won the Queen's Award for Enterprise: Innovation. The Optical Society of American Foundation received its largest corporate donation ever from fiber-laser manufacturer IMRA America.

The article focuses on the use of optical fibers with a large effective mode area to overcome fiber nonlinear effects that limit the peak power of fiber lasers. Scientists at IMRA America company have designed a silica-glass fiber with a very large air hole outside the solid core that provides sufficient mode filtering to support single-mode propagation and displays negligible loss at bending diameters as small as 15 centimeter. .

The article reports on the license agreement entered by Jenoptik Laser GmbH, a company of Lasers & Material Processing division of Jenoptik, and fiber laser manufacturer IMRA America Inc. for the use of IMRA patent rights.

Reports on the development of a compact femtosecond erbium-doped fiber oscillator by scientists at IMRA America in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Environmental stability; Ability to operate without realignment under all laboratory conditions.

The article reports that IMRA America based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, has applied for permits to build a fourth building at its headquarters just off Geddes Road. It is expected to cost about $5.5 million and will house research and development facilities over two floors. According to IMRA President Takashi Omitsu, the company grew its revenue from about $12 million in 2006 to about $15 million last year.

Presents various announcements and survey results from companies in the United States. Entries for IMRA's Gold Key award; Results of the `Third-Party Sellers Best Management Practices Survey,' by Silvermine Consulting Group; Growth in the number of telecommuters according to the study by CDB Research & Consulting Inc.

The article offers news briefs related to business enterprises in the United States. Oxford-based Sabre Consulting has been acquired by CareTech Solutions Inc. A Web marketing agreement has been signed between a custom-car company Detroit Muscle and Troy-based Awecomm Web Strategies. IMRA America has retained Rein Nomm & Associates, a public relation agency.

This article reports that the University of Michigan has launched a research center for laser manufacturing that puts doctoral students' research directly in the hands of corporations. The Center for Lasers and Plasmas for Advanced Manufacturing already has five members including Toyota Motor Manufacturing America Inc., General Electric Co. and Ann Arbor-based IMRA America. Companies benefit by having high-level students working on complex research at a greatly reduced cost, he said. Membership is $30,000 annually. Companies also may participate at the associate level for $10,000 annually. Member companies may elect to buy intellectual property generated by the research by negotiating a standard research contract with the university, at which point the intellectual property becomes proprietary.