What? Fluence Technology aims to “fill the [...] gap of service-free femtosecond lasers for micromachining.”

What, exactly? The company found a way to make femtosecond fibre lasers (ie very, very fast) “environmentally stable and immune to shock.” This opens a new avenue for several applications, like micromachining (precise, nanoscale surface processing) or biology (fluorescence microscopy).