‘Femtosecond lasers are rapidly becoming commercialised and finding new applications’

By Mathew Peach

In a presentation entitled Femtosecond Technology: Coming of Age, Barry Schuler, chairman and cofounder of Raydiance, Petaluma, Ca, US, compared the position of the femtosecond laser just a few years ago with how “conventional wisdom” perceived the Internet back in the early 1990s: “hardly anybody anticipated that so many people the world over would depend on the web for shopping and entertainment, communications and work.”