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Laser technology has innumerable applications. Do not hesitate to ask us for information about the use of lasers or their potential in your line of business and your specific application.
Send us samples of your materials and our R&D laboratory will carry out all the appropriate tests according to your indications and return the samples to you along with the information you require. We will then contact you to comment on the results and coordinate the manner of creating and parameterising the new application.
The industrial applications of lasers in materials processing include many types of processes, including the following:
1.Cutting – The laser can be a precise cutting tool. High-powered lasers are used to cut steel, while other lasers are used to cut cloth, rubber, plastic or other materials.
2.Welding – This is the union (fusion) of two materials. By heating the materials close to the join area, they melt locally and fuse together.
3.Marking – Tracing a text or a vectorial or bitmap graphic on the surface of the material by means of a chemical reaction induced by the laser.
4.Engraving – Tracing a text or a vectorial or bitmap graphic by means of surface ablation of the material.
5.Hardening – Many metals can be hardened by heating specific areas. It is even possible to harden a specific part of a tool by local irradiation.
6.Fusion – The absorption of laser beams causes an increase in temperature. Since a large amount of power can be transferred to the materials in a very short time, fusion is easy to carry out.
7.Evaporation – Used for ablation of material (transferring it to the gaseous state).
8.Photolithography – Used particularly in the semiconductor industry. Very delicate forms can be generated in the materials used as masks in lithography. These are special materials that respond to light of a specific wavelength, changing their properties. As a result, it is possible to eliminate parts of material with a very high degree of precision (of the order of microns).
9.Laser measurements in 3-D – With the aid of a scanning laser, it is possible to obtain information on the shape of an object in three dimensions and feed it into a computer.
10.Stereolithography in 3-D – This is similar to photolithography, but the laser is used to generate a 3-D sculpture of the information stored in a computer. The combination of these last two applications permits the creation of 3-D models. High-precision statues of persons have even been constructed using these techniques.
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