Also, such lasers can scan a much broader field of view than a laser in a digital microscope.
It is removing the baseball-size tips from its Sidewinder heat-seeking missiles and installing a low-power laser in those tips.
The second problem--getting the light in there--was solved by the invention and refinement of the lightemitting diode and the laser in the past 20 years.
The reason is that skin does not reflect the laser in the same way as most other objects - meaning for those wishing to evade the camera's gaze, stripping naked is an option.
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It will then self-destruct not in flames, its inventors hasten to add, but because contact with the air eventually renders its surface opaque, making it impossible for the laser in a disc player to read the data beneath.
With their new laser in hand, Dr Leitgeb and his colleagues set up an experiment that let them test the system on a range of skin conditions, including a healthy human palm, allergy-induced eczema on the forearm, inflammation of the forehead, and two previously diagnosed cases of basal-cell carcinoma.
Newer developments in laser technology, such as nonablative fractional resurfacing, in which the laser divides the light up into many smaller pulses, have decreased the healing time.
The 'toner' used in the laser sintering process is rather more expensive than that found in a laser printer cartridge.
Once the rods were in place, the team fired a burst of laser light in the general location of the tumour.
In addition, McDonald conducted the first wavefront-based laser surgeries in the United States.
When your iOS device is facing the wall, its camera monitors the field, using computer vision algorithms to detect your laser shots in real time, finally discovering a novel use for laser points that doesn't involve annoying rock bands or cats.
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In 1980, I bought True Colors by Split Enz and was endlessly entranced by the laser etching in the vinyl that made it seem full of colorful prisms.
The camera works in conjunction with laser beams mounted in the headlamp unit.
This generates the coherent light of a laser beam in the core of a long, thin optical fibre.
The laser beam in the scanner shoots a steady stream of photons, all of the same frequency, at the plastic.
Though the idea of microdotting dates from the 1940s, it became economically viable only with the advent of laser etching in the 1990s.
The more of these the laser sends in, the more light returns to the device and the higher the resolution of the resulting image.
It operates by focusing a laser pulse in the air to create a high energy plasma ball (up to several kilometers away) at a target.
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Hundreds of lives are being put at risk by people shining laser pens in the eyes of pilots flying at Gatwick Airport, says a Sussex MP.
Next year, NASA is to launch a demonstration mission to test optical laser communications in conjunction with the LADEE (Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer) mission to the moon.
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Mobeam converts barcodes, coupons, loyalty cards and gift cards into a beam of light that can be read by every one of the estimated 165 million laser scanners in use today by retailers around the world.
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Wilhelm Meiners and his colleagues at the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology in Aachen, Germany, are one group working to extend the technology to print reconstructive facial plates and even load-bearing artificial joints, such as hips, which could be customised for each patient.
Earlier this year a team at Lund University in Sweden used a laser with pulses measured in attoseconds (billion billionths of a second) to record an electron in motion.
What I saw in Phoenix last week was promising: members from both organizations were laser-focused in their leadership meeting, and breakout groups tackled challenges that the new organization will face.
Otherwise, it can be bathed in a liquified form of the second material until all of the voids created by the laser are filled in.
But advances in laser scanning gave her the breakthrough she needed and enabled her to match many pieces with their exact location in the caves.
Going forward, the LLCD will play a vital part in NASA's 2017 Laser Communications Relay Demonstration, a key test of laser-based relay comms in future missions.
Some of the success came from a series of acquistions: Argentinian eye product maker Waicon in December 2011, opthamolagy laser maker Technolas Perfect Vision in November 2012, and ISTA Pharmaceuticals, a maker of eye drugs, in March 2012.
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That will require further advances in laser welding and other bonding techniques to make production costs competitive.
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