Drilling with fiber lasers

Publikationstyp
Conference Paper
Date Issued
2011-10
Sprache
English
Author(s)
Dietrich, Jens  
Blaesius, Christoph  
Brief, Stefan  
Kelbassa, Ingomar  
TORE-URI
http://hdl.handle.net/11420/12486
Start Page
473
End Page
477
Citation
30th International Congress on Applications of Lasers and Electro-Optics, ICALEO 2011: 473-477 (2011)
Contribution to Conference
30th International Congress on Applications of Lasers and Electro-Optics, ICALEO 2011  
Publisher DOI
10.2351/1.5062279
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-82655170968
Publisher
Laser Inst. of America
For drilling holes such as cooling holes in tool forms or turbine blades with diameters from 100 ?m up to 1.5 mm flash lamp pumped laser sources e.g. slab lasers are commonly used. These laser sources have peak powers of several kW at pulse durations from microseconds up to milliseconds with a high beam quality. Due to the beam quality, small spot sizes and intensities greater than 106 W/cm2 are achieved. The mean power of these laser sources is in the range of some mW up to several hundred W rather small. So far fiber lasers are not used for laser drilling due to small peak powers and intensities. Meanwhile, fiber lasers with a scalable output power of 1 W up to 50 kW in multimode or up to 10 kW in single-mode with a beam quality of M2 < 6 in the multimode and M2 < 1.1 in single-mode are offered in cw. Furthermore fiber lasers with a beam quality of M2 < 6 are offered with a maximum peak power of 6 kW in a pulsed operation mode. With these fiber lasers drilling seems to be possible. Thus laser drilling with fiber lasers is investigated and compared to flash lamp pumped Nd:YAG lasers.
DDC Class
530: Physik