As we all know, flat cutting is only one of the initial processes in the metal processing industry. The demand for many subsequent processes represented by metal welding and metal surface treatment is actually much greater than the initial process requirements of flat cutting, so laser pointer welding and laser surface treatment The market capacity is fundamentally much larger than the market capacity of plane cutting.
From this perspective, the capacity of the laser manufacturing equipment market is expected to continue to increase in the next few years, and its main contribution will come from the substantial increase in the market share of laser welding and laser surface treatment in the entire laser equipment market.
Regarding the future development prospects of the laser pointer market, Professor Ma mentioned the Moore’s law of semiconductors. The invention of semiconductor technology and laser technology were in 1947 and 1960, respectively, and the Nobel Prize was won in 1956 and 1964 respectively. It can be said to be the product of an era.
From a physical basis, semiconductors are the quantum effects of fermions, and lasers are the quantum effects of bosons, and both are the products of quantum effects. However, the size and influence of the two developments are completely different. The key is that semiconductors have been developing on the scale of Moore’s Law, that is, the capacity of semiconductor technology can be doubled and product prices can be reduced by half every 18 months. This rapid development speed is the reason for the success of semiconductor technology. ”
Since the advent of laser technology, the technological development of traditional green laser pointer has been relatively slow. It was not until the advent of fiber lasers that they kept up with the development speed of semiconductors, achieving a technological development speed that roughly doubles the laser power every 18 months. However, due to the high technical threshold and huge R&D investment, the price of fiber laser products of leading manufacturers is about to drop by half every 36 months.