Pulse shape control of a mopa fiber laser for marking of stainless steel and other materials

29th International Congress on Applications of Lasers and Electro-Optics, ICALEO 2010 - Congress Proceedings

Volumn 103, Issue , 2010, Pages 951-958

  Hendow, Sami T ^a   Guerreiro, Paulo T ^a   Schilling, Niels ^b   Rabe, Jan ^b  

^a Multiwave Photonics   (Portugal)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MATERIAL AND BEAM TECHNOLOGY IWS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; PULSED LASERS; STAINLESS STEEL; STEEL FIBERS;

ELEVATED LEVEL; INCIDENT PULSE ENERGY; IRRADIANCE LEVEL; PULSE PEAK POWER; PULSE SHAPE CONTROL; REPETITION FREQUENCY; SURFACE OXIDATIONS; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE;

PULSE REPETITION RATE;

EID: 78650349278     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2351/1.5062143     Document Type: Conference Paper

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