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A team of scientists has managed to 3D print microscopic structures that are designed to dampen sounds for specific ...

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Fiber lasers are considered to be a popular choice for cleaning tasks in composites manufacturing because of their comparative efficiency, versatility, compactness and long life. Continuous fiber ...

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In the journal Optics Letters, the researchers describe how they 3D printed microscale optics directly onto optical fibers to combine fibers and laser crystals inside a single laser oscillator in a ...

This involved designing an optical element with commercial software, inserting the fiber into the 3D printer, and then printing the small structure on the end of the fiber. This process must be ...

"We significantly reduced the size of a laser by using 3D printing to fabricate high-quality micro-optics directly on glass fibers used inside of lasers," said research team leader Simon ...