Fiber lasers are gradually favored by laser system integrators because of their advantages of high efficiency and low maintenance operating costs. CO2 lasers and other solid-state lasers have been or are being replaced in many applications, revolutionizing the laser market, and promoting the global laser market. The continuous development. With the continuous expansion of the application range of fiber lasers in industrial processing, the next five years will see five major trends in the fiber laser industry:
With the development of higher power in the high-tech fields such as shipbuilding and aerospace, and the increasing application of additive manufacturing technologies, higher output power has become one of the main research areas for the development of fiber lasers. The output power of fiber lasers will be from 100W. Grades, kilowatts to 10,000 watts. It is expected that the output power of fiber lasers will reach tens of thousands of watts by adopting higher-powered pump sources, more advanced specialty fiber designs, and high-power fiber combining technologies. Industrial equipment equipped with high-power fiber lasers ranging from kW to tens of thousands of watts will become mainstream equipment for high-end manufacturing.
High-power, high-peak-power pulsed fiber lasers have been developed in many astronomy laser pointer applications, such as laser deep engraving, laser cleaning, and other pulsed fiber lasers that require high average power and high peak power, and lasers with high beam quality and low power. As a seed light source, a double-clad fiber is used as an amplifier, and it is easy to obtain a pulsed laser output with high average power and high pulse energy, which is a hotspot and a difficult point in current industry research.
Development towards ultrashort-pulse fiber lasers In the field of laser fine processing, such as the punching of brittle materials and sapphire glass cutting, ultra-fast ultrashort pulse fiber lasers are required. At present, high-speed ultra-fast ultra-short pulse fiber lasers are hot spots in R&D.
The development of high-power optical fiber lasers with higher beam quality in the direction of higher brightness has a strong demand in scientific research and military fields. The main users are research institutes, universities and government departments. At present, developed countries adopt high-beam-quality high-power fiber lasers as the preferred light source for tactical laser weapons, and military and other special requirements will prompt fiber lasers to develop toward higher power while simultaneously developing toward higher brightness, ie, to increase output power. While maintaining fiber laser output beam quality.
Towards modularity and intelligence In order to adapt to the market's various demands for lasers, fiber lasers will gradually become serialized, combined, standardized, and generalized. Utilize limited specifications and varieties to shorten new product development cycles and improve product stability and reliability by combining and matching different modules. At the same time, through the use of advanced communication technologies and design concepts, remote diagnosis, remote maintenance, remote control, and data statistics of fiber lasers are realized. Through the real-time monitoring of the operating status of fiber lasers, potential failures of the products can be discovered and handled in advance. Provide better product service.