Solar Shines Brightly for SPI Lasers

10th December 2007, Southampton, United Kingdom, SPI Lasers, a leading designer and manufacturer of fiber lasers, today announced that the solar energy market is becoming a significant sector for the use of its fiber lasers. Having only discovered that fiber lasers were a good match for elements of the solar industry in the summer of 2007, SPI Lasers have to date identified various aspects of the Solar Energy industry, such as scribing of thin films, edge isolation, silicon drilling and cutting of crystalline silicon solar cells which are making a high impact in the Solar Energy Market and are requesting solar manufacturers to come forward to test these and other uses for the fiber laser.

SPI Lasers has identified the Solar Energy market as a significant untapped opportunity for its fiber lasers. The solar industry is currently experiencing significant growth in size, geographic expansion and technology proliferation. Technical evaluations have revealed that SPI’s pulsed fiber laser can be used in a number of key applications for the manufacture of solar cells.