NEWS: LightMachinery Acquires the Lumonics® Excimer Laser Product Lines from GSI Group and Expands Production Facilities, July, 2008
LightMachinery Inc. is pleased to announce that it has concluded an agreement with GSI Group to purchase the Lumonics® brand excimer laser product lines. The acquisition of the excimer products follows LightMachinery’s recent acquisition of the TEA CO2 infrared laser product lines from GSI Group.
John Hunter, President of LightMachinery, stated “The Lumonics excimer lasers have a well-established reputation for being reliable industrial lasers and we are very excited to acquire this technology. There is a large installed base of these lasers around the world and we expect this will grow significantly as manufacturing applications for high power excimer lasers continue to expand”.
As a result of these product line acquisitions and a rapidly expanding business, LightMachinery is more than doubling its production operations, relocating to an expanded manufacturing and laboratory facility, effective August 1, 2008.
LightMachinery was established in Ottawa, Canada in 2002 by former members of GSI Lumonics. The company manufactures lasers and precision optical components.
NEWS: Laser Focus World Magazine
Fluid-jet polisher is deterministic
A fluid-jet optical-polishing process developed by LightMachinery (Ottawa, On, Canada) promises a lower cost path to deterministic polishing. - Read the complete article...e
LightMachinery's fluid jet polishing system uses a fine stream of slurry to accurately remove nanometers of material. Advanced software enables the correction of wavefront errors to achieve surfaces that are within a few nanometers of perfect. The wide variety of materials that can be processed using the fluid jet system is enabling applications that were previously considered impossible or too expensive with conventional technology.
Fluid jet polishing is revolutionizing the manufacturing of a wide variety of products in the optics, semiconductor and metal fabrication markets.
