Micromachining with copper lasers
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Knowles, M.; Foster-Turner, R.; Errey, K.; Kearsley, A.
- Source
- Proceedings of LEOS'94 LEOS '94 Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1994. LEOS '94 Conference Proceedings. IEEE. 1:297-298 vol.1 1994
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Copper
Laser beam cutting
Pump lasers
Power lasers
Optical materials
Optical pulses
Laser modes
Laser theory
Steel
Gas lasers
- Language
The copper laser is the new laser in materials processing. It has shown great potential as a tool for high precision manufacturing. Commercial copper laser machining systems are now commercially available. Recent breakthroughs and on-going research in copper lasers will continue to scale the efficiency, output power and beam quality of these lasers.