Press Release

Innovative Laser LightWare® - Solutions

For more than a quarter of a century, LASAG, a worldwide leading manufacturer of industrial solid-state lasers, has been presenting continually innovative solutions for micromachining at the International Laser Marketplace. Here is a continually growing market with high potential for laser precision applications.

At LASER 2007 in Munich this year, LASAG will be featuring three brand-new innovations for precision welding, cutting, drilling and ablation. The range of attractive customer solutions and leading market position in the field of microprocessing will be represented particularly by the following:

1. The DQS 200 for the product portfolio Drilling LightWare®:
A newly developed series of diode-pumped short-pulse lasers for micro-drilling and ablation.

2. The SLS 200 CL8 for the product portfolio Welding LightWare®:
A compact, lamp-pumped precision welding laser of the successful SLS series offering excellent beam quality and impressive pulse-to-pulse stability.

3. The KLS 246 MC20 for the product portfolio Cutting LightWare®:
A lamp-pumped precision welding laser for thin-walled sheets and tubules offering outstanding beam quality and Total Costs of Ownership that was unknown up to now in the field of industrial lamp-pumped systems.

Please visit us in: Hall B3, Stand 247
Telephone: +49 89 949 67511
Fax: +49 89 949 67511

Please feel free to contact us if you have any further questions.

Dr. Ulrich Dürr, Manager Market Development, Innovation & Technology
Dr. Bruno Frei, Head of R & D
Dr. Ronald Holtz, Manager, Application und Process Development
Dr. Tobias Moser, Product Manager DQS 200
Dr. Dietmar Wagner, Managing Director, Responsible for Press
Mr. Christian Wissing, Product Manager SLS 200 & KLS246

Thun, June 2007

LASAG LightWare® includes Tools such as beam sources, beam guidance systems and processing heads as well as Solutions that include know-how, real-time process control, or database solutions.

LASAG LightWare®, Laser LightWare®, Welding LightWare®, Cutting LightWare® and Drilling LightWare® are registered trademarks of LASAG AG.