Nlight

nLIGHT, Inc. (NASDAQ: LASR) is a US-based designer and manufacturer of high-power semiconductor and fiber lasers, optical fibers, and beam-control systems. For more than 25 years the company has served mission-critical directed-energy and defense, sensing, and advanced-manufacturing markets (cutting, welding, additive, medical, and battery production) from a vertically integrated stack spanning semiconductor chips to complete laser systems, with a portfolio of over 450 patents and design and manufacturing based in Camas, Washington. nLIGHT is a hardware and photonics company and publishes no public developer API, SDK, or developer portal.

Nlight is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Lasers, Photonics, Semiconductors, and Fiber Optics.

Nlight’s developer surface includes engineering blog, support, and 1 more developer resources.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 8.1/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 1.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
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  optical fibers, and beam-control systems. For more than 25 years the company has served mission-critical directed-energy
  and defense, sensing, and advanced-manufacturing markets (cutting, welding, additive, medical, and battery production) from
  a vertically integrated stack spanning semiconductor chips to complete laser systems, with a portfolio of over 450 patents
  and design and manufacturing based in Camas, Washington. nLIGHT is a hardware and photonics company and publishes no public
  developer API, SDK, or developer portal.'
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