Rarely a week goes by that some company doesn’t offer to send us their latest and greatest laser. You know the type — couple of aluminum extrusions, Class 4 diode ... live up to the hype?

All three laser diodes have an internal monitor photodiode ... The rugged mechanical set-up together with the specially developed high-precision spindle motor guarantees an excellent positioning ...

Everyone knows that lasers are basically magic, and if you strap a diode laser or two to a lawn mower, it should slice through those pesky blades of grass with zero effort. Cue [Allen Pan]’s ...

The Vista is a diode-based laser, which means there are some limitations ... Once you have the hardware set up, which takes all of five minutes, it needs to connect to your computer.

Both laser diodes and LEDs (light-emitting diodes) are used for this purpose, but the laser diode generates a smaller beam that is easier to couple with the smaller core of singlemode fibers.