News — laser machining
Smooth Passage™ Holmium Fiber Tips on ProFlex™ LLF
2100nm AccuFlex Accumax AccuTrac ACMI laser fiber calculase chips Clean cut cutting fiber dornier Duotome EndoBeam Fiber Flexiva fused silica GreenLight high power fiber optics Holmium Fiber Holmium Laser holmium laser fiber karl storz KTP Laser Laser laser fiber Laser Lithotripsy laser machining Lasersafe litho laser Lumenis medilase medilase H20 micromachining MoXy OmniPulse optical fiber Optifiber ProFlex ProFlex LLF ProGlide ProGuard Prostate Surgery quanta laser richard wolf scope safe Scopesafe SideLite Slimline stonelight SureFlex Thulium thulium laser thulium laser fiber TracTip Trimedyne yellowstone
In the course of studying other manufacturers' holmium laser fibers we sometimes observe surprising differences. In this case, we knew that our tips were different -- heck, we gave them a special name -- but just how much difference they made was the surprise. The two fibers in the photo are "1000 micron", meaning they have either a 910 μm or 940 μm core inside a 1 mm diameter glass cladding. The upper one was made by the manufacturer of the laser upon which the two fibers were used and the lower one is our Smooth Passage™ Tip on ProFlex™ LLF. Both fibers...
IQ honored as Best Precision Fused Silica Component Manufacturer (2016)
angled union capillary chromatography contract manufacturing Fiber fixing a broken column fused fiber arrays fused quartz fused silica gas chromatography glass union glass y splitter high power fiber optics laser machining microlenses micromachining optical fiber Pres2fit press2fit Pressfit presstight ProFlex protypes quartz union tapered fibers
InnovaQuartz pioneered the use of carbon dioxide lasers for manipulating and machining fused quartz and fused silica glasses under computer control and microscopic imaging way back in 1991 when our founder, Stephen Griffin, gambled that his ideas would actually work and built the first laser system in his 80 square foot laundry room. Our first sale was 6 months after the first dollar was spent and we sold more than $1,000,000 in machined fused quartz and modified optical fibers in the first twelve months of operation. We have stayed well ahead of all competitors who tried to copy our...