According to Chris Dorman, Executive Vice President, Lasers Business, ‘the creation of this expanded centre of excellence will enable incredible cross-product synergies and standardisation of components and processes, as well as integrated resource planning.
Most importantly, this will bring a number of key benefits to our customers, particularly our high-volume OEMs, including
- A single point of contact for all ultrashort pulse (USP) lasers. Accelerated product development
- Shorter lead times
- Faster ramp-up of production volumes
- Operational flexibility
- Plus several other tangible benefits'
He adds: ‘This major change in the company structure is a testament to the maturity of today's femtosecond lasers, which are in no way inferior to picosecond models in terms of their stability and long-term reliability, ease of use and compact, robust design.’ This maturity is evident both in the lasers themselves and in the way they are used, for example in high-throughput 24/7 industrial applications such as flexible display cutting, in life science applications such as cancer cell analysis and in ‘hard’ scientific laboratory research such as attosecond physics.’
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