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Performance Manual Laser Welders Now Available with Fiber Lasers

New fiber laser-based manual welders enable high precision product assembly for medical products, aerospace, and more.

Introducing Higher Power Handling QBH Fiber Optic Cables

Improvements in water cooling of fiber optic cables deliver greater reliability and higher power handling capacity.

Advanced Fiber Lasers Improve Automotive Seat Welding

Discover how Coherent ARM fiber lasers deliver the precise control needed for welding high-strength steel and even multi-layer composites.

Advanced Fiber Lasers Improve Automotive Car Welding

More Than Skin-Deep Cosmetic Benefits

Discover why diode lasers are the frontline tools used in laser hair removal and in laser wrinkle reduction methods like fractional resurfacing.

Fiber Lasers: Why We Approach E-Mobility Welding with Finesse, Not Brute Force

The most difficult automotive and e-mobility welding tasks require multi-kW lasers that also offer precise control over how power is delivered to the work piece.

Laser Microscopes are Key Tools in Biology

Discover why confocal microscopy, multiphoton microscopy, and super-resolution microscopy all rely on lasers to support cutting-edge research in life sciences.

New High-Power UV Laser - AVIA LX 355-30

Learn about the new Coherent AVIA LX355-30 high-power UV laser that reduces cost per part for PCB depaneling and drilling, SiP cutting, and more.

Active Optical Fibers May Be in Your Next Car

Learn how active optical fibers enable fiber lasers and fiber amplifiers, which power applications as diverse as satellite communications, autonomous vehicles, remote sensing, inertial navigation, surgery, and materials processing.

Medical Device Manufacturing: Saving Lives, Cutting Stents with Lasers

Learn how Coherent laser machines are widely used by manufacturers of medical devices, such as coronary stents that enable minimally invasive treatment of heart attacks.

The Excimer Laser at 50 – Older, But Better

Today, Coherent excimer lasers do everything from vision correction and mass spectroscopy to cellphone display manufacturing. See how we got there.

How Fiber Lasers Are Powering Electric Vehicle Batteries

Learn how Coherent fiber lasers deliver the best and most economical solution for the precise and demanding welding tasks of EV battery production.

Lasers Join the Effort for Next-Gen E-Mobility Batteries

Photonics for Space Applications

Coherent optics, coatings, lasers, crystals, and fibers are deployed everywhere from the Hubble Space Telescope to the New Horizons spacecraft and beyond.

Coherent Components for Space-borne Applications

Success Stories

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CYTENA

Read how CYTENA, an innovative instrument company in cell biology, uses an OBIS laser to reliably dispense droplets containing exactly one live cell each.

Graz University of Technology

Learn how Professor Markus Koch leveraged the reliable femtosecond laser performance of the Coherent Legend Duo to reach groundbreaking results.

Marking Marathon

Discover the story of Klaus Huber, who has been marking the medals at marathons for decades — and the lasers that help him do it.

Citrogene

Learn how a manufacturer of glass components for life sciences, medical devices and microelectronics employs an ultra-short pulse laser for precision cutting and mictrostructuring.

NIT

NIT, the only supplier of nitinol in Taiwan, brought precision laser cutting in-house to ensure high quality and fast turnaround for their contract manufacturing business.

S-Innovations

S-Innovations (Moscow, Russia) delivered the highest ever volume of superconducting YbCO tape using a Coherent LEAP 300C excimer to power their pulsed laser deposition (PLD) process.

CYTENA

Read how CYTENA, an innovative instrument company in cell biology, uses an OBIS laser to reliably dispense droplets containing exactly one live cell each.

SwissFEL

Operational since 2016, the SwissFEL output acts as the ultrafast probe in unique pump-probe X-ray studies across different sciences, all using pulses from a Legend Elite as the pump photons.

Technocut

Technocut has gone from strength to strength, with a successful business and a stellar reputation in the watch industry, plus an increasing demand for parts for other precision industries.

SVM Automatik

SVM Automatik partnered to develop a cost-effective production solution for precision marking the scales of insulin injection pens.

Atelier Schon

See how jewelry manufacturer Atelier Schon uses the Performance Facelift 6002 welder for both manufacturing and repair.

Silhouette

See how Silhouette International significantly reduced tooling and manufacturing costs.

Lasers from Coherent Bring a Unique Vision to Reality

Press Releases

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II-VI Incorporated and Coherent, Inc. Announce Respective Shareholder and Stockholder Approvals for Merger Agreement

Coherent (Nasdaq: COHR) - II-VI Incorporated and Coherent, Inc. Announce Respective Shareholder and Stockholder Approvals for Merger Agreement

II-VI And Coherent Provide Update On Transaction Milestones

Coherent (Nasdaq: COHR) - II-VI And Coherent Provide Update On Transaction Milestones.

Coherent Annnounces Receipt of New Acquistion Proposal from Lumentum

Coherent, Inc. (NASDAQ: COHR) - Coherent Annnounces Receipt of New Acquistion Proposal from Lumentum.

Coherent Board Confirms Receipt of Revised II-VI Acquisition

Coherent, Inc. (NASDAQ: COHR) - Coherent Board Confirms Receipt of Revised II-IV Acquisition.

Coherent Confirms Receipt of New Acquisition Proposal From Lumentum

Coherent, Inc. (NASDAQ: COHR) - Coherent Confirms Receipt of New Acquisition Proposal From Lumentum.

Coherent Board Determines New II-VI Proposal is Superior to Amended Lumentum Merger Agreement

Coherent, Inc. (NASDAQ: COHR) - Coherent Board Determines New II-VI Proposal is Superior to Amended Lumentum Merger Agreement.

Coherent Signs Revised Merger Agreement with Lumentum

Coherent, Inc. (NASDAQ: COHR) - Coherent Signs Revised Merger Agreement with Lumentum.

Coherent Board Determines Revised II-VI Proposal is Superior to Lumentum Merger Agreement

Coherent, Inc. (NASDAQ: COHR) - Coherent Board Determines Revised II-VI Proposal is Superior to Lumentum Merger Agreement.

Coherent to Engage in Discussions with II-VI

Coherent, Inc. (NASDAQ: COHR) - Coherent to Engage in Discussions with II-VI.

Coherent Confirms Receipt of Unsolicited Proposal from II-VI Incorporated

Coherent, Inc. (NASDAQ: COHR) Coherent Confirms Receipt of Unsolicited Proposal from II-VI.