Applications: Materials Processing

While conventional diode lasers have seen use in several low brightness materials processing applications, and QPC ’s unique high brightness semiconductor laser technology is enabling a new era of broad ranging high brightness direct diode materials processing.

Laser materials processing is one of the worlds largest laser markets, with applications ranging from cutting and welding at high power levels on down to marking and plastics welding at low powers. Diode lasers are ideal for materials processing because of their high efficiency and compact size, light weight and ruggedness, and reduced operating cost as compared with conventional gas and solid state laser solutions. As a result, several direct diode materials processing applications are highly successful today such as plastics welding, soldering, surface hardening, and coarse marking. A large number of applications will be further enabled as high brightness diode lasers are deployed including marking, cutting of non-metals and metals, and metal welding.