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Winters Blast Precitec Presentation

Precitec: Products For Laser Material Processing And Optical Measuring    

Brian Smith, Sales, and Service Engineer, gave an informative presentation about Precitec's products including: processing heads for laser cutting, joining technology, and quality monitoring systems; and sensors for non-contact topography, layer thickness measurement, and eye tracking systems. Two demonstrations were also provided. Find out what they were.    

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Winters Blast Keynote: Shiloh Industries

The Future of Light-Weighting Technology   

Jim Evangelista, Director, Core Advanced Engineering & Lab Services for Shiloh Industries, Inc., gave a thought provoking presentation as our Key Note Speaker at the January Mi-Light Members meeting. Find out what he had to say by viewing the PDF.   

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Winters Blast Rigaku Presentation

Multi-layer Coating Technology    

Nick Grupido gave an enlightening presentation about Rigaku's multi-layer coating capabilities for X-ray optics at the January Mi-Light Members meeting. See what kinds of capabilities they offer by viewing the PDF.     

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Ophir Intros High Accuracy M2 Beam Propagation System

Ophir Intros High Accuracy M2Beam Propagation System for Continuous Applications  

The new M2 laser beam propagation system measures the quality of the beam to optimize performance. BeamSquared is a compact, portable device that provides automated measurements of the propagation characteristics of CW and pulsed lasers in under one minute.   

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Mi-Light Members at Photonics West 2017

Mi-Light Members Participate at Photonics West 2017  

Mi-Light is proud to be a part of this event and very proud of our members who are participating. We hope you drop by to get to know these companies and how they are influencing the photonics industry.   

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The State Of The Photonics Industry

The State Of The Photonics Industry - Past, Present & Future 

Read the highlights from a presentation given by Tom Hausken,PhD, Senior Advisor, OSA at the Mi-Light Oct 2016 members meeting. Tom talked about the past 100 years, what is going on today, as well as what the future will look like for the photonics industry as a whole. 

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Northwestern Michigan College -- Cutting Edge Programs

Northwestern Cutting Edge Programs 

At the Mi-Light members meeting of Oct 8, Ed Bailey, Division Director, gave a presentation about the photonics-related programs at NMC. During his presentation, Ed talked about NMC's broad-based curriculum includes course work in photonics and robotics. He mentioned NMC students helped local police recover a drowning victim.  Find out how in the article. 

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Mi-Light Fall Colors Members Meeting In Review

Mi-Light Fall Colors Members Meeting in Review By EOT 

With the fall colors just starting to appear in northern Michigan, EOT was proud to host the quarterly meeting of Mi-Light, our Michigan photonics cluster. Representatives from many regions of our great state traveled to The Grand Traverse Resort to discuss our industry’s past, present, and most importantly, our future. A great time was had by all as we heard several interesting presentations and participated in an EOT tour of their facilities.

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Mi-Light serves as the focal point for the photonics industry in Michigan, bringing together professionals from companies, academia and organizations, dedicated to mutually supporting, promoting and growing Michigan's photonics industry.  Mi-Light’s mission is to promote and grow our internationally-recognized talent pool and leverage our strong industrial and academic capabilities in order to expand the photonics industry, attract funding and stimulate innovation in Michigan. Learn more.