2012
DOI: 10.1117/12.910899
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Innovations in high power fiber laser applications

Abstract: Diffraction-limited high power lasers represent a new generation of lasers for materials processing, characteristic traits of which are: smaller, cost-effective and processing "on the fly". Of utmost importance is the high beam quality of fiber lasers which enables us to reduce the size of the focusing head incl. scanning mirrors. The excellent beam quality of the fiber laser offers a lot of new applications. In the field of remote cutting and welding the beam quality is the key parameter. By reducing the size… Show more

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“…Fibre lasers as the laser source were chosen due to the excellent beam quality, the nearly diffraction-limited beam and high brightness, which allowed focusing of the laser to small spot sizes and hence, a high power density input (Table 2) which was necessary as aluminium exhibits a high reflection coefficient and high thermal conductivity. 1518 The nearly diffraction-limited beam allowed a Gaussian-shaped heat input into the material. It was proposed that higher-order modes would modify the heat input into the material, which could possibly make the flow pattern of the melted material more difficult to control.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Fibre lasers as the laser source were chosen due to the excellent beam quality, the nearly diffraction-limited beam and high brightness, which allowed focusing of the laser to small spot sizes and hence, a high power density input (Table 2) which was necessary as aluminium exhibits a high reflection coefficient and high thermal conductivity. 1518 The nearly diffraction-limited beam allowed a Gaussian-shaped heat input into the material. It was proposed that higher-order modes would modify the heat input into the material, which could possibly make the flow pattern of the melted material more difficult to control.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Lasers are currently widely used in material processing, such as cutting, welding, or surface modification [ 1 , 2 ]. The used laser spot sizes are in the range of sub-millimeters up to some millimeters.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This technology distinguishes itself by a minimal thermal degradation and an average cutting speed that exceed the conventional technique's cutting speed by a factor of up to five [6], especially for smaller parts with a higher complexity. For cutting larger parts there is the possibility to enlarge size of treated area by using additional x-y-axis which provides movement of the material [7].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%