Company: LASR
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001124796-25-000021
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Company: NLIGHT, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form: 10-K
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 be easily field serviceable, which results in higher machine uptime, lower cost of ownership and improved customer experience.

Fiber Amplifiers

We design, manufacture and sell high-performance fiber amplifiers, offering high efficiency, compact design, and superior beam quality for a wide range of aerospace and defense, and industrial applications. These components amplify optical signals directly within optical fibers, eliminating the need for bulky free-space optics. By leveraging doped fiber cores, our fiber amplifiers deliver high power outputs with excellent thermal management, making them ideal for demanding aerospace and defense markets. We believe our latest generation of fiber lasers are best-in-class in delivering the highest power while minimizing size and weight, which are critical decision criteria for our laser sensing and directed energy applications. Our fiber amplifier technology remains central to our commitment to delivering cutting-edge laser solutions for our diverse set of customers.

Advanced Development

Overview

Our Advanced Development segment is dedicated to driving innovation and expanding our technological leadership in the field of directed energy and laser sensing. Our advanced development programs focus on research, design, and prototyping of next-generation laser technologies, leveraging our expertise in high-power laser technology 

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development, beam control, and advanced optics. Structured to foster collaboration between engineering, research, and product development teams, our advanced development programs combine dedicated resources and facilities with deep technical expertise to deliver cutting edge solutions. Centered around providing governmental agencies with next-generation laser technologies and solutions, our capabilities include the development of custom high-power fiber lasers and advanced beam combining technologies. By aligning our innovation efforts with strategic growth and defense initiatives – directed energy and laser sensing, in particular – our Advanced Development segment plays a critical role in maintaining our competitive edge and driving long-term value creation.   

Markets

We sell our products into three primary end markets: Aerospace and Defense, Industrial, and Microfabrication.

Aerospace and Defense 

Lasers are used today in a variety of aerospace and defense applications, such as range finding, imaging, communications, and directed energy defense systems. Pulsed laser technologies are also increasingly being used for a wide range of sensing applications including long range precision targeting, remote sensing, counter-sensor, communications, and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) applications. Directed energy defense systems utilize concentrated electrical or optical energy rather than chemical or kinetic force to incapacitate, damage, disable or destroy a wide range of threats. Compared to conventional weapons, directed energy weapons using high-power fiber lasers offer ultra-precise targeting, low cost per use and a nearly unlimited