THE LASER - AS USED IN ALIGNMENT

摘要

For many years people have thought of the laser as something used with success in the fields of communications, medicine, industry, and, of course, Buck Rogers, Star Wars and the Hollywood Bowl with laser music. Communications has used the laser extensively to beam back signals from distant planets, the medical field to heal the detached retina and remove cataracts from the eye, the industrial field to cut, or rather, melt the extremely hard diamond, and now the field of machinery to solve precision alignment problems. Some people have considered the laser to be one of the greatest advances made in the field of precise alignment. This could be so in certain conditions or uses, especially in the field of turbomachinery.