The mechanism of a confocal laser scanning microscope is to irradiate an object with a laser beam emitted from a light source, scan the entire object in two directions, the X-axis and the Y-axis, and ...

News article “New Optical Technology Boosts Laser Scanners’ Reach" UC Santa Barbara researchers have designed and built a device that expands the ability of laser scanners to create rapid, ...

Collecting coordinates by laser scanning made it possible for Aircraft Technologies Inc. to use existing tooling to develop a CAD model of a new design. In the design-sensitive, high-value market of ...

The most popular 3D printing process for making metal parts is laser powder-bed fusion (LPBF). It uses a laser beam to scan 2D patterns over a flat bed of powdered metal to form melt tracks that fuse ...

3D printing is already a staple technology for all the hobbyist households, but the 3D scanning is still on the rise. Its importance and demand for it is permanently growing, because the range of ...

In brief: Even though Blu-ray players have been mostly replaced by streaming and video-on-demand services, they can still serve a purpose. A resourceful YouTuber shows he could turn said player into a ...