In recent years, the laser manufacturing industry has shown an overall explosive trend, which is inseparable from the rapid growth of fiber laser pointer manufacturers. The high price of imported fiber lasers has always been a major obstacle to the development of laser equipment that cannot be used on a larger scale in more application fields. From this point of view, fiber laser manufacturers continue to introduce high-quality and inexpensive products to the market. The important historical mission of the continuous rapid development of the global laser equipment and application market.
The latest trends and trends in fiber laser technology and the market. Recently, fiber laser technology and the market have shown two major trends: one is the sudden increase in the power of a single fiber module, and the other is the sudden increase in the laser processing power demanded by the market. For a long time, the power of single fiber module of most fiber laser manufacturers represented by IPG has been at a low level between 500 watts and 1500 watts.
The higher power output of several kilowatts usually adopts the so-called “low-quantity combining” schemes such as 3-in-1, 7-in-1, and the so-called “high-quantity combining” scheme for ultra-high power output above 10,000 watts (for example, IPG’s The 30,000-watt model adopts a 23-in-1 combination scheme). However, the power of single-fiber modules has suddenly risen sharply recently. IPG is launching single-fiber modules ranging from 2000 watts to 3500 watts. Other manufacturers are also working hard to launch their own high-power single-fiber modules. This can be considered as a future development. One of the main trends.
The laser processing market has not always had a strong demand for ultra-high power lasers above the 10,000 watt level, but it has suddenly changed recently. Taking the cutting market as an example, the high-speed and high-precision laser cutting machines of 15,000 to 20,000 watts launched by Han’s Laser and Pentium Laser have received enthusiastic response in the market, and the welding market has begun to widely use ultra-high power fiber lasers of more than 20,000 watts. According to current trends, the cutting market will soon extend to 30,000 watts or even higher.
Markets such as welding and surface treatment will extend to 100,000 watts or more. In response to this, the metal melting threshold is one million watts per square centimeter, and the metal surface modification threshold is ten thousand watts per square centimeter. From these two basic data, there will be 100,000 or even one million watt green laser pointer in actual use in the future. The power is all normal. Considering that the cost of ultra-high power lasers is becoming more and more acceptable, the breakthrough of 100,000 watts in laser manufacturing can be said to be just around the corner.