Laser welding of plastics transparent to near-infrared radiation

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4637, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 528-536

  Sato, Kimitoshi ^a   Kurosaki, Yasuo ^a   Saito, Takushi ^b   Satoh, Isao ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT TRANSFER; INFRARED RADIATION; LASER BEAMS; THERMOPLASTICS;

NEAR-INFRARED LASERS;

LASER BEAM WELDING;

EID: 0036406616     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.470662     Document Type: Article

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