# Nlight

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/nlight/  
**Website:** https://nlight.net  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 3.5 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 3.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 7.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Energy & Utilities**: 0.0 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Tags

Company, Lasers, Photonics, Semiconductors, Fiber Optics, Directed Energy, Defense, Advanced Manufacturing, Hardware

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/nlight/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.