PhotonXpo/Cleo

Is anyone going to PhotonXpo/Cleo in Baltimore? It's June 2nd - June 4th. There are over 300 exhibitors including CNI, Coherent, Newport, Thorlabs and many other cool companies. I plan on going June 4th. Bill

I LOVE YOU!!! I'm like 1.5 hrs. from B-more and never knew about this! Thanks! WOOOHOOO TIME TO GO TO A LASER GATHERING!

-Jakob

Wait... where exactly in baltimore is it?

-Jakob

PhotonXpo

It's at the Baltimore Convention Center. You can sign up for a free badge at the following website. After you sign up, you will receive a bar code via email that you will scan onsite at a kiosk to print your badge. It will be mostly industry professionals attending so don't expect a large percentage of hobbyists. The exhibitor list looks very interesting. Can't wait! Bill


http://www.cleoconference.org/exhibit_hall/index.aspx

Sweeeeet. Can't wait!

-Jakob

if i where you i wouldnt go the 4th cause all the companies are going to start packing and you may not get to see everything.

Yeah, I'm probably going on the 2nd or 3rd. Most likely 3rd.

-Jakob

silvercookie said:

if i where you i wouldnt go the 4th cause all the companies are going to start packing and you may not get to see everything.

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I wondered about that. It's pretty expensive booth space to leave early. Bill

Ok I went. A picture or two soon to come, but I could only photograph one thing because it was apparently against policy to photograph and I was only able to get special permission for one display. Let me give a list of things worth seeing:

-Fiber-Coupled Continuous Spectrum White Laser

-Thorlabs's Optical Tweezers (a device that uses laserlight to trap particles in the micron/submicron level... I also took the short-course about this)

-The DPSS display on the right as soon as you walk into the exhibit hall. This had around 10 different DPSS colors in it, from UV to IR. AWESOME!

-Fiber-Coupled 593.5nm laser capable of 3 watts plus a couple other fiber-coupled fixed wavelength lasers.

-Ti:Saphire 5W? tunable laser capable of 280nm-2400nm without any gaps during tuning.

And this is just a couple things that stood out. It was AWESOME!

-Jakob

Edit: Here's a link to the pictures:

http://laserpointerforums.com/laser_pointer_forums_3/forum/showthread.php?t=40961

Dammit! The Convention Center is about 40 mins away from where I live and I missed it! Guess I should never depend on the local rag to keep me informed on all the good stuff that's going on around town...it's a shame they didn't allow pics as this totally sucks and I would have loved to have been there.