Autumn 2020

Application Focus: Cleaning
Researchers are developing laser systems capable of cleaning ship hulls underwater
Green light for green mobility
Trumpf’s David Harvilla, Stefanie Bisch and Sebastian Zaske discuss why green lasers represent the perfect tool for welding e-mobility components made of copper
For a better world: OCT unlocks real-time quality control during oscillation welding
Nataliya Deyneka-Dupriez and Alexander Denkl, of Lessmüller Lasertechnik, describe how OCT can be used to perform online process monitoring when using an oscillating laser beam to weld e-mobility components
UV lasers make their mark in space, technology and surgery
ES Precision’s new UV laser is paying for itself by opening up a range of valuable niche processing jobs, writes director Andrew May
Taking the heat out of metal welding
Greg Blackman speaks to two researchers who presented at the LANE conference on different aspects of laser welding
Smart Systems
Keely Portway discovers how laser systems are used in smart manufacturing
One wavelength, two approaches
Over the summer laser users learned how two types of blue diode laser are dramatically improving copper welding for fabricating e-mobility components
