TechNOW: Hollow glass fibres making lasers sharper

Academy of Technology and Engineering by Academy of Technology and Engineering

Aug 13, 202100:18:38Technology

Once the stuff of science fiction, Carbon Dioxide lasers are now crucial to soft-tissue surgery and next gen manufacturing. But a laser is only as good as the glass fibre that carries it. Professor Heike Ebendorff-Heidep...

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