By nLIGHT
nLIGHT has a long history of supplying customers in the aerospace and defense market with innovative high-power laser technology for space applications. Our semiconductor and pulsed lasers are used in numerous programs as optical transmitters for free space satellite communications. Additionally, our high-power semiconductor lasers are part of the transmitting laser technology that form the heart of NASA’s Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite 2 (ICESat-2), launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base on September 15, 2018. ICESat-2 uses a laser altimeter to measure, track and report on changes to the earth’s surface.
