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In the Oil Industry, Lasers Make the Cut

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WOLFRAM RATH AND FRANK GAEBLER, COHERENT INC.

Cutting or welding heavy metal requires higher laser output power than virtually any other type of materials processing application. In the oil industry, an important heavy metal cutting application is creating the slotted liners used to separate oil from well sediments such as sand and gravel. Traditionally, this was done with diffusion-cooled CO2 slab lasers, but now, kilowatt-class fiber lasers are poised to penetrate this market segment. Heavy metals, in this context, refer to substrates at least several millimeters in thickness where a multi-kilowatt-class laser competes against...Read full article

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    Published: September 2017
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    An intensity distribution (intensity as a function of radial distance from the beam center) which is given by the Gaussian function: where: I0 is the intensity at the beam center r is the radial distance from the beam center ω0 is the radius at which the intensity drops to a value of 1/e², or 13.5%, or its peak value. Since, in mathematical terms, the intensity of a Gaussian beam never drops completely to zero, it is standard to define the beam radius as the distance from the beam...
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