Raydiance Secures $20 Million of New Funding to Support Continued Development and Commercialization of Ultrafast Laser Platform

The "cold ablation" (cutting without heat) capabilities of the Raydiance Discovery platform are illustrated by the machining of a "Strike Anywhere" match. The brevity of the ultrafast laser pulses (less than a picosecond) makes it possible to ablate material without transferring heat to the match. Therefore, the match did not ignite...strike anywhere EXCEPT with an ultrafast laser! (Photo: Business Wire)

When used at non-ablative energy levels, Raydiance can be deployed to change the surface structure of materials. Here, crystalline silicon has been irradiated to create a high surface area structure such as would be used in photovoltaic cell applications. This illustrates how Raydiance lasers are useful in increasing the efficiency of solar cells (Photo: Business Wire).

This porcine corneal flap was cut with the Raydiance laser focused 100 microns below the surface to "cold ablate" (cut without heat) a plane of tissue that could be pulled back as would be done in a LASIK procedure. Collateral damage to surrounding tissue was avoided because no heat was transferred (Photo: Business Wire).

The Raydiance Discovery system was used to ablate a 20 micron hole in this high grade stainless steel. There were no heat affected zones or mechanical damage to the sample (Photo: Business Wire).