Category: Laser
Slamtec Mapper M1M1 ToF Laser Scanner Kit has 20M Range
The Slamtec Mapper has two models with a detection range of 20m and 40m. It can easily map for home scenes or commercial, light industrial scenes. The following picture shows the M1M1 map function with a 134 meters * 111 meters underground parking lot. In the handheld mode, the...
Continue ReadingOsram enables projections with the smartphone
Laser technology from Osram transforms smartphones into beamers. Green lasers for projector applications need to have not only outstanding beam characteristics but also a high optical performance in order to deliver sharp and bright images. Although a projector also needs red and blue...
Continue ReadingDIY Pen/Laser Engraver ESP32 Controller
Buildlog.Net Blog published a new project. It's an ESP32 Controller board used to control X/Y and Z axis of Pen or Laser engraving machines. I have done several pen and laser machines lately, so I decided to create a custom PCB for Grbl_ESP32 for these types of machines. This is a...
Continue ReadingLaser Beam Wireless Smartphone Chargers: The Next Big Thing
Cellphone chargers have been in existence for years and have grown from one stage to another. It started with the mobile phone traditional charger which had a USB interface, a DC converter, and a charging plug and now has expanded to a close-range inductive wireless charging. The commonly...
Continue ReadingDremel Introduces The First-Ever Dremel Digilab Laser Cutter
The Dremel DigiLab Laser Cutter enables Makers to expand portfolio and business capabilitie. MOUNT PROSPECT, Ill., Sept. 23, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- At World Maker Faire New York, Dremel introduces the first-of-its-kind Dremel DigiLab Laser Cutter. Dremel designed this machine to provide...
Continue Reading290Hz Narrowband Laser On Chip For Numeros Photonic Applications
Researchers from the MESA+ research institute at University of Twente have collaborated together with the provider company of the customized microsystem solutions "LioniX International" to achieve the lowest bandwidth tunable diode laser on a chip. The newly-developed laser operates...
Continue ReadingOn-Chip Microwave Laser
Lasers are everywhere these days: at the checkout in the supermarket, in the CD player in the lounge – and quantum researchers need them to test qubits in the (future) quantum computers. For most applications, today's large, inefficient lasers are a perfectly adequate solution, but...
Continue ReadingElectrons Counter-Intuitive Movement
Our 'common sense' would say that when an object moves from point A to point B it necessarily has to also move through all the points between A and B. This is, however, not true for electrons in the quantum world, where these intuitive truths are not valid. Electrons can, for...
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