Laser Energetics, Inc., development stage laser technology company, provides laser-based products and services. The company’s products include solid state BrightStar Alexandrite laser products and PSLM laser system products. Its services include laser applications and process development services, and its laser contract manufacturing services.
The company provides an ultraviolet laser marking service for marking surface mounted devices manufactured by microelectronics companies. Surface mounted...
Laser Energetics, Inc., development stage laser technology company, provides laser-based products and services. The company’s products include solid state BrightStar Alexandrite laser products and PSLM laser system products. Its services include laser applications and process development services, and its laser contract manufacturing services.
The company provides an ultraviolet laser marking service for marking surface mounted devices manufactured by microelectronics companies. Surface mounted devices are found in almost every electronic device, ranging from stereos, VCRs, camcorders, pagers, and cellular telephones to missiles, medical devices, watches, and satellites.
The company’s product line consists primarily of solid state lasers. These lasers are both flashlamp pumped and diode pumped (excitation source). Diode Pumped Solid State Lasers (DPSS) use semiconductor lasers to pump a specific type of laser crystal to produce a laser beam.
The company manufactures various types of DPSS lasers for different applications, including semiconductor inspection; advanced packaging and interconnects; repair, test and measurement; computer-to-plate printing; writing data to master disks; entertainment; photo finishing: marking, welding, engraving, cutting and drilling; drug discovery; forensics; laser doppler velocimetry; bio-agent detection; medical; rapid prototyping; DNA sequencing; flow cytometry; laser pumping and spectroscopy.
The company’s business segments are focused on various areas of the photonics market, including military and homeland security markets, medical original equipment manufacturer (OEM) applications, graphic arts and display, materials processing, scientific research and government programs, and OEM components and instrumentation.
The company holds 10 laser related patents on Alexandrite laser technology. Its product line consists of lasers targeted at niche applications in industrial, scientific, medical, military and government markets.
Other potential applications are in the medical field, such as hair and tattoo removal, lithotripsy, dentistry, cancer treatment (PDT), ophthalmology, and dermatology applications.
Segments
Military - Homeland Security & Government Applications
The company’s products are being developed to be used in various non-lethal laser applications that address military and homeland security needs. Those applications include laser dazzlers, both man portable in a pistol form and rifle form, and vehicle portable - helicopter based or wheeled/tracked vehicle based versions. Applications for remote sensing of chemical, biological and explosives detection are also being developed. Its systems could be deployed to guard military facilities, major gatherings of people, sporting events, or vital infrastructure components such as subways, airports, or industrial hubs.
Research & Development & Manufacturing Applications
The company’s high-energy flash lamp-pumped Alexandrite lasers offer the tuning range for spectroscopy applications. Its major scientific applications include biological - atomic and molecular spectroscopy, solid state and semiconductor studies, chemistry (Time-resolved and Raman spectroscopy for remote sensing) and engineering (material processing, metrology).
Microelectronics
The company’s lasers are particularly useful in manufacturing products which require fine precision and small feature sizes, such as semiconductor and microelectronic devices where beam shape and delivered power are important. Its new diode pumped Alexandrite lasers would provide semiconductor equipment manufacturers a greater wavelength range to address different materials processing applications such as mask writing, wafer inspection, mask repair and packaging processes for their semiconductor manufacturing systems.
Displays
The company’s developments in green and blue lasers, as well as red lasers from other companies are helping it to combine red, green & blue lasers for applications in laser displays replacing ion guns found in televisions. The company is developing a RGB (red, green, blue) laser source which can be affordable to manufacture for TV displays, and scalable for billboard displays.
Materials Processing
The company’s lasers produce smaller, cleaner holes than conventional cutting tools, and laser beams do not wear down from use, as do conventional drills. Its lasers are being used in scribing, machining and drilling microelectronic materials and components and in microelectronics manufacturing to adjust electronic components. It is developing compact low to medium power lasers specifically for the growing area of nonmetals processing and micromachining, as well as laser marking.
Medical OEM
The company is developing a product line of conductively air cooled flashlamp pumped Alexandrite lasers to be marketed to medical laser companies in end-user applications such as ophthalmology, tattoo removal, dentistry, and photo acoustic imaging diagnostic systems.
Services
The company’s services include both its laser applications and process development services, and its laser contract manufacturing services.
Laser Applications and Process Development Services: The company works with customers in evaluating the feasibility of using its laser technology to assist them with marking, cleaning, cutting, drilling, surface modifying, etching or scribing their components or materials.
Laser Contract Manufacturing Services: The company has primarily focused on its laser marking service which is dedicated to marking ceramic chip capacitors and resistors (surface mounted devices, or SMDs).
Markets
The company markets its products in Europe, Japan and other Asia-Pacific countries.
Competition
The company’s competitors include Coherent, Inc., Electro Scientific Industries, Inc., Excel Technology, Inc. and Light Age, Inc.
History
Laser Energetics, Inc. was founded in 1991.
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