Here are the 10 most viewed business and technical posts on the Laser Focus World website in 2018. It’s clear that basic tutorials, and how-to articles are always popular, as are features that provide market analysis. Some of the traffic is driven by search, some by links from other websites, and some by links from our e-newsletters.
Number 1: LFW Photonics Market Financials, streaming stock market update of photonics companies' stock prices and press releases, along with global stock information (15 minute reporting delay)
Number 2: Turning raw materials into finished products, a classic business strategy article by long-time columnist Milton Chang
Number 3: Annual Laser Market Review & Forecast: Lasers enabling lasers, 2018 review by the LFW staff
Number 4: Optical fiber sees growth as medical sensors, by Alexis Mendez, MCH Engineering
Number 5: Laser diode operation 101: A user’s guide, by engineers from Arroyo Instruments
Number 6: Four laser companies to exceed $1 billion revenue in 2016, a market blog by German Contributing Editor Andreas Thoss
Number 7: Fiber lasers: The state of the art, a 2012 feature that sets the stage for all that has happened since, by contributing editor Jeff Hecht
Number 8: How mirrors, lenses, and prisms shape light systems, another classic how-to article from LFW staff
Number 9: Five photonics trends for 2018, a blog of prescient predictions by German Contributing Editor Andreas Thoss
Number 10: Vertical-cavity Surface-emitting Lasers: VCSEL arrays provide leading-edge illumination for 3D sensing, a review of the technology by Holger Moench, manager of technology and strategy at Philips Photonics (recently acquired by Trumpf).