General Scanning invented the optical scanner, then refined it… and now revolutionized it. The Lightning Digital Scanner platform is a new concept in scanner technology.
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Announcement!
Lightning Digital Scan Head Prototypes

Read all about the new prototype units. They are available in three styles with clear apertures from 7mm-70mm.
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New MPower Galvo Motor Family Yields
Highest Performance

General Scanning invented the optical scanner over thirty years ago. Since that time, we have been improving and refining our designs.
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    In the News:
General Scanning has moved
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Samurai Marks™ with Lightning
DPSS Lasers' Samurai 355 Marking System with Lightning Digital Scanner Technology Sets Benchmark for "Cold" Marking Performance
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Custom laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) provides video-rate images of cell function.
Two researching physicians have overcome slow video rate and high expense by developing a design for a much less expensive CLSM, using a resonant scanner from General Scanning Inc., of Billerica, MA.
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Galvonometer accuracy and ruggedness helped insure safe return of NASA Shuttle.
What was originally planned as a test of imaging technology designed to evaluate the condition of the Shuttle Discovery's heat shield became a critical part of last July's mission.
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    General Scanning 2008 Trade Show Schedule

March 18-20, 2008
Laser World of Photonics China 2008
Shanghai New International Expo Centre, Pudong
Shanghai, China