'Global Partner for Raydiance' - North Bay Business Journal
June 14, 2010
By Loralee Stevens
Petaluma -- Raydiance broadened its footprint onto the global stage last week by partnering with a leading producer of laser solutions for medical device manufacturers.
'Stents No Longer Too Hot to Handle' - MPMN
January/February, 2010
By Bob Michael
Stents are typically manufactured using thermal laser technology. The problem is that this technique introduces recast and other heat-affected zones into the material, necessitating costly, labor-intensive postprocessing rework. Committed to the idea that stents should chill, Raydiance Inc. has developed Smart Light MD, a femtosecond laser platform that enables athermal ablation.
Advanced Micro-Machining with Smart Light - JLMN
Published February, 2010
Ultrafast lasers have become essential tools for advanced micro-machining and materials processing. When delivered properly to the target, the extreme brevity of the pulses facilitates material removal without imposing thermal effects on the remaining structure. We describe herein a new ultrafast laser platform (Smart Light™) based on fiber-optic laser architecture that is fully integrated with embedded electronics and software layers for autonomous and safe system operation. We show micro-machining examples, technology platform overview, laser system performance data, and preliminary reliability characterization.
Researcher Inactivates HIV with Raydiance Smart Light - Journal of Biomedical Optics
Published Dec. 22, 2009
In a recent article published in the
Journal of Biomedical Optics, Arizona State University Professor Frank Tsen and colleagues reported the ability to selectively inactivate a number of both pathogenic and non-pathogenic viruses with Raydiance Smart Light. The researchers demonstrated inactivation of the M13 bacteriophage, the tobacco mosaic virus, human papillomavirus (HPV), and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
'Raydiance Sets Milestone' - Photonics.com
October 21, 2009
Petaluma, Calif.-based laser company Raydiance Corp. announced it has made a major breakthrough in manufacturing a wide variety of bioabsorbable materials with precise, micron-resolution feature sizes and with no heat-affected zones.
'Fifty Best Tech Startups' -BusinessWeek.com
By Aaron Ricadela
June 17, 2009
BusinessWeek and market researcher YouNoodle have teamed up to identify 50 promising startup companies flying below the radar in 2009. You won't find Twitter or Facebook on this list. Instead, you'll discover new tech companies from the U.S., China, India, Israel, and Russia that are attracting some early buzz. Most of these fledgling companies started in 2005 and later, and all are poised to grow beyond their regional or niche-market origins.
'Raydiance Unveils Innovation' - Photonics.com
NEW YORK, June 11, 2009
By Rebecca C. Jernigan
Vascular stents - small tube-like devices that are sometimes inserted into arteries during angioplasty to ensure that the artery remains open - are common medical devices. However, the difficulty of making these tiny devices increases their manufacturing cost considerably. They must be made carefully and precisely in order to avoid creating burrs, slag or heat-affected zones that could compromise the integrity of the device.
During the inaugural talk at the Innovation Briefs Theatre during MD&M East, a medical device manufacturing trade show at the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York City, Scott Davison, president of Raydiance Inc. of Petaluma, Calif., presented a new way to create stents that could bypass many of these problems.
'Ultrafast Fiber Laser Delivers High Energy and Long-Term Reliability' - SPIE
March 20, 2009
By Mike Mielke and Adam Tanous
A software-controlled high-power laser achieves superior beam quality and durability without the need for skilled technicians.
'Novel fibre delivers ultrafast pulses' - Optics.org
Jan. 21, 2009
By Tim Hayes
Raydiance is developing a fibre to transport ultrashort pulses without damage.
The company has been awarded $500,000 for a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) contract with the US Naval Air Warfare Centre. The STTR programme funds cooperative R&D projects involving a small company and a university, in this case the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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'A Cut Above: Ultrapowerful Laser Offers Greater Precision Sans Heat Damage' - Scientific American
November 20, 2008
By Larry Greenemeier
Most lasers rely on continuous waves of energy to generate heat that allows doctors to make cuts during surgery, computers to burn information onto CDs and DVDs, and scanners to read bar codes. But a newer type of laser promises to do all of these things more efficiently using quick, short blasts of energy. This pulsed-laser technology has been around since the 1980s but high cost has kept it from becoming widely used. Petaluma, Calif.–based Raydiance, Inc., however, hopes to overcome that obstacle with the latest version of its ultrashort pulse (USP) laser system unveiled Wednesday.
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