II-VI Incorporated introduces 22W pump laser diodes for fibre lasers
12 February 2019
II‐VI Incorporated has introduced a new generation of pump laser diodes that achieve a high output power of 22W from a single chip.
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II-VI Incorporated unveils highly flexible laser materials processing head with control unit and graphical user interface
12 February 2019
II‐VI Incorporated has announced the introduction of its HIGHmodular processing head. This highly flexible product is typically used for laser welding and is designed with an embedded control unit
Project to develop 60kW CW laser diode sources for welding thick steel sheets in ship building
11 January 2019
Partners of a joint research project are looking to establish fast, high-quality laser welding processes for shipbuilding and other maritime applications
Bright future for fibre lasers?
7 January 2019
Professor Michalis Zervas, from the Optoelectronics Research Centre, charts the rise of high-power fibre lasers and asks what next for the technology?
Gaining control over laser welding
7 January 2019
A laser process head with real-time weld control has been demonstrated, after a four-year EU project. Daniel Lloyd, development engineer at Laser Optical Engineering, reports on the work
NASA exploring ultrafast lasers for manufacturing spaceflight instruments
7 November 2018
NASA optical physicists are exploring the use of femtosecond lasers to join dissimilar materials in the manufacturing of spaceflight instruments.
Euroblech 2018 to focus on digitalisation and Industry 4.0
27 September 2018
This year’s international sheet metal working technology exhibition Euroblech will focus on the topics of Industry 4.0, digitalisation, and big data, organisers have announced
Researchers develop chip-sized sensor for real-time beam power measurement
21 September 2018
Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in the US have developed a chip-sized sensor that could be built into manufacturing systems in order to measure laser power in real time
Best of the battery welding tools
18 September 2018
Dr Joachim Döhner, vice president of Kuka’s battery business unit and chairman of the board for VDMA Battery Production, argues that laser welding is the most effective way of making electrical contacts in batteries
TWI-led project to advance laser welding in order to improve aircraft efficiency
29 August 2018
TWI (The Welding Institute), based in Cambridge, UK, is leading a new Horizon 2020 project to improve the efficiency and cost of aircraft manufacturing using the latest developments in laser welding
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