By Hermann Uchtmann One of the main applications for laser drilling is the manufacturing of cooling holes with diameters of e.g., 500 µm in turbine components such as turbine blades and vanes or combustion chambers. Nowadays, these cooling holes are drilled by using flash lamp pumped Nd:YAG laser radiation and partially by using QCW fiber laser […]
Tag: Fiber Laser
A Technical and Commercial Comparison of Fiber Laser and CO2 Laser Cutting
By John Powell, Alexander Kaplan Since the advent of commercial fiber and disk laser cutting machines, there has been a lot of controversy about the performance of these devices – particularly in comparison to their more established CO2 counterparts. In the early days, the sales staff promoting fiber technology would often declare that the new […]
High Deposition Rate Laser Cladding – Recent Advancements
By Jari Tuominen, Jonne Näkki, Henri Pajukoski, Tuomo Peltola, Petri Vuoristo Laser cladding is currently done with 3-6 kW gas and solid state lasers. Components to be clad or repaired are usually small or some discrete regions in larger components. Net deposition rates are typically 1-2 kg/h. In large area coating applications, conventional coating methods […]
Fiber Laser Blanking of Coil Strips at Extreme-Speed Extreme-Power
By: Dr. Charles Caristan and Jay Finn Air Liquide Industrial US LP, Automatic Feed Company The blanking process consisting of cutting flat panels directly out of a metal coil is practiced in the automotive industry to the tune of 10 MM tons of steel coils processed each year for the North American market alone. Up […]
Leading Technology for the Customer’s Benefit – Laser Processing Heads for Welding and Cutting
By: Dr. Markus Kogel-Hollacher For decades Precitec has been the leading manufacturer of processing heads suitable for all laser sources including fiber lasers, disc lasers, CO2 lasers, diode lasers, Nd:YAG lasers from powers ranging from the typically used power spectrum up to 30 kW. These are directly applicable to industrial laser materials processing in order […]