• 제목/요약/키워드: High Power Fiber Laser

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고출력 광섬유 레이저 냉각판 설계과정에서 나타난 열전달 이론, CFD 및 실험 결과값의 비교 (Comparison of Heat Transfer Theory, CFD and Experimental Results in the Design Process of High-Power Fiber Laser Cooling Plate)

  • 김태우;이강인;정민완;정예지;고광웅;이용수
    • 한국군사과학기술학회지
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    • 제24권6호
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    • pp.629-637
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    • 2021
  • For the stabilization of laser output power and wavelength of the high power fiber laser, the cooling plate must be properly taken into account. In this study, three analyzing methods which are heat transfer theory, CFD and experiment are used to analyze cooling plate performance by measuring pump Laser Diode(LD) temperature. Under limited operating conditions of a cooling plate, the internal flow of cooling plate is transitional flow so that the internal flow is assumed to be laminar and turbulence flow and conducted theoretical calculation. Through CFD, temperature of pump LD and characteristics of the internal flow were analyzed. By the experiment, temperature of pump LD was measured in real conditions and the performance of the cooling plate was verified. The results of this study indicate that three analyzing methods are practically useful to design the cooling plate for the high power fiber laser or similar things.

Ultralow Intensity Noise Pulse Train from an All-fiber Nonlinear Amplifying Loop Mirror-based Femtosecond Laser

  • Dohyeon Kwon;Dohyun Kim
    • Current Optics and Photonics
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    • 제7권6호
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    • pp.708-713
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    • 2023
  • A robust all-fiber nonlinear amplifying loop-mirror-based mode-locked femtosecond laser is demonstrated. Power-dependent nonlinear phase shift in a Sagnac loop enables stable and power-efficient mode-locking working as an artificial saturable absorber. The pump power is adjusted to achieve the lowest intensity noise for stable long-term operation. The minimum pump power for mode-locking is 180 mW, and the optimal pump power is 300 mW. The lowest integrated root-mean-square relative intensity noise of a free-running mode-locked laser is 0.009% [integration bandwidth: 1 Hz-10 MHz]. The long-term repetition-rate instability of a free-running mode-locked laser is 10-7 over 1,000 s averaging time. The repetition-rate phase noise scaled at 10-GHz carrier is -122 dBc/Hz at 10 kHz Fourier frequency. The demonstrated method can be applied as a seed source in high-precision real-time mid-infrared molecular spectroscopy.

High-power fiber laser cutting parameter optimization for nuclear Decommissioning

  • Lopez, Ana Beatriz;Assuncao, Eurico;Quintino, Luisa;Blackburn, Jonathan;Khan, Ali
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제49권4호
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    • pp.865-872
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    • 2017
  • For more than 10 years, the laser process has been studied for dismantling work; however, relatively few research works have addressed the effect of high-power fiber laser cutting for thick sections. Since in the nuclear sector, a significant quantity of thick material is required to be cut, this study aims to improve the reliability of laser cutting for such work and indicates guidelines to optimize the cutting procedure, in particular, nozzle combinations (standoff distance and focus position), to minimize waste material. The results obtained show the performance levels that can be reached with 10 kW fiber lasers, using which it is possible to obtain narrower kerfs than those found in published results obtained with other lasers. Nonetheless, fiber lasers appear to show the same effects as those of $CO_2$ and ND:YAG lasers. Thus, the main factor that affects the kerf width is the focal position, which means that minimum laser spot diameters are advised for smaller kerf widths.

Fiber Laser Welding in the Car Body Shop - Laser Seam Stepper versus Remote Laser Welding -

  • Kessler, Berthold
    • Journal of Welding and Joining
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    • 제31권4호
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    • pp.17-22
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    • 2013
  • The excellent beam quality of high power fiber lasers are commonly used for remote welding applications in body job applications. The Welding speed and productivity is unmatched with any other welding technology including resistance spot welding or traditional laser welding. High tooling cost for clamping and bulky safety enclosures are obstacles which are limiting the use. With the newly developed Laser stitch welding gun we have an integrated clamping in the process tool and the laser welding is shielded in a way that no external enclosure is needed. Operation of this laser welding gun is comparable with resistance spot welding but 2-times faster. Laser stitch welding is faster than spot welding and slower than remote welding. It is a laser welding tool with all the laser benefits like welding of short flanges, weld ability of Ultra High Strength steel, 3 layers welding and Aluminium welding. Together with low energy consumption and minimum operation cost of IPG fiber laser it is a new and sharp tool for economic car body assembly.

Fiber Optics for Multilayered Optical Memory

  • Kawata, Yoshimasa;Tsuji, Masatoshi;Inami, Wataru
    • 정보저장시스템학회논문집
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    • 제7권2호
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    • pp.53-59
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    • 2011
  • We have developed a compact and high-power mode-locked fiber laser for multilayered optical memory. Fiber lasers have the potential to be compact and stable light sources that can replace bulk solid-state lasers. To generate high-power pulses, we used stretched-pulse mode locking. The average power and pulse width of the output pulse from the fiber laser that we developed were 109 mW and 2.1 ps, respectively. The dispersion of the output pulse was compensated with an external single-mode fiber of 2.5 m length. The pulse was compressed from 2.1 ps to 93 fs by dispersion compensation. The fiber laser we have developed is possible to use as a light source of multilayered optical memory. We also present a fiber confocal microscope as an alignment-free readout system of multilayered optical memories. The fiber confocal microscope does not require fine pinhole position alignment because the fiber core is used as the point light source and the pinhole, and both of which are always located at the conjugated point. The configuration reduces the required accuracy of pinhole position alignment. With these techniques we can present an all-fiber recording and readout system for multilayered memories.

연속파 파이버 레이저를 이용한 SS400의 절단 특성에 관한 연구 (A Study on SS400 Cutting Characteristics using Continuous Wave Fiber Laser)

  • 오용석;이가람;박은경;유영태
    • 한국생산제조학회지
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    • 제21권4호
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    • pp.644-650
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    • 2012
  • This paper show the 2kW fiber laser cutting properties of SS400. The study was comparison of traditional 4kW $CO_2$ Laser cutting and 2kW Fiber laser cutting characteristics for the application of Industrial 2D Laser Cutting Machine. The laser used in this investigation was an IPG YLU-2000 multi-mode Ytterbium Fiber machine with a maximum power of 2000W and a wave length of 1070 nm. The laser was used in its Continuous Wave (CW) mode with an approximately top hat beam intensity distribution. Fiber laser high quality cuts at a large range of speeds (ranging from 2000 to 3800 mm/min) which has been obtained for the 2.3mm Sheet of SS400. 2kW power Fiber laser cut was able to max. 20mm sheets of SS400 (speed range from 650 to 850 mm/min). Fiber laser cutting used in conventional hole nozzle could cut 12mm SS400 but used in special dual cutting nozzle could cut 20mm SS400.

3.0 kW 고출력 발진 단일 모드 Yb 광섬유 레이저 (High-power Yb Fiber Laser with 3.0-kW Output)

  • 박종선;박은지;오예진;정훈;김지원;정예지;이강인;이용수;조준용
    • 한국광학회지
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    • 제32권4호
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    • pp.147-152
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    • 2021
  • 본 논문에서는 최고 출력 3.0 kW 발진 단일 모드 이터븀(ytterbium, Yb) 첨가 광섬유 레이저에 대해 보고한다. 고출력 광섬유 레이저의 출력을 제한하는 주된 요소인 유도 라만 산란 문턱 값과 광섬유 내 온도 분포를 계산하고 이를 바탕으로 양방향 펌핑 구조의 단일 공진기 Yb 광섬유 레이저 시스템을 제작하였다. 그 결과 4.1 kW의 펌프 출력에서 최고 출력 3.0 kW의 레이저 빔을 얻을 수 있었고, 그때의 기울기 효율은 81.5%로 계산되었다. 최고 출력에서 측정된 출력 빔의 빔질(M2)은 1.26으로 단일 공간 모드 빔 출력 특성을 가지고 있음을 확인하였고, 유도 라만 산란 및 횡모드 불안정 현상은 관측되지 않았다. 본 연구에서 얻은 광섬유 레이저 출력 결과는 지금까지 국내에서 보고된 다이오드 레이저로 펌핑한 광섬유 레이저 출력 중 가장 높은 출력이며, 향후 더 높은 출력을 얻기 위한 방법에 대해 논의하고자 한다.

자동차용 무침입형 극저탄소강의 파이버 레이저 용접에 대한 연구 (A Study on the Fiber Laser welding of Ultra-Low Carbon Interstitial Free Steel for Automotive)

  • 오용석;신호준;양윤석;황찬연;유영태
    • 한국생산제조학회지
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    • 제20권3호
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    • pp.342-349
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    • 2011
  • The purpose of this paper is to describe experimental results about the butt welding and bead on plate welding of the high power Continuous Wave (CW) Fiber laser for Ultra-low carbon Interstitial Free(IF) steel plate for gear part of car. After being welded of the gear parts by the fiber laser and electron beam Microstructures of melting zone had been mixed acicular, granular bainitic, quasi-polygonal and widmanstatten ferrite because of a radical thermal diffusion after welding, difference of critical volume and grain size. As a result of experiment, when gear parts were welded by the fiber laser and electron beam, the fiber laser welding has been stable properties without internal defects more than the electron beam welding. Therefore it has the very advantages of welding high quality and productivity more than conventional melting method. The optimal welding processing parameters for gear parts were as follows : the laser power and welding speed were 3kWatt, 30mm/sec respectively. At this time heat input was $21.2{\times}10^3J/cm^2$.