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CO2 Lasers Make the Cut

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Advances in radio-frequency technology, turbo radial blowers and adaptive resonator optics have fueled development of 5-kW lasers with M2 less than 2.

Dr. Holger Schlüter

With system revenues well above $2 billion last year, laser cutting remains the major industrial market for high-power laser sources. In fact, advances in machine dynamics and beam delivery systems have led to cutting speeds, and ultimately production costs, that make lasers unrivaled for flexible cutting of sheet metal up to 1 in. thick. Plasma and water jet cutting are orders of magnitude slower and are limited to excessive thickness or nonmetals. Punch presses, which laser cutting systems can now rival in productivity, do not offer the flexibility of tool-free sheet metal...Read full article

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    Published: June 2003
    beam delivery systemsCoatingsDPSS lasersenergyFeatureshigh-power laser sourcesindustrialmachine dynamicsLasers

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