Process: Drilling

Laser drilling is a successful manufacturing solution in many industries due to it advantages over using conventional drilling techniques. For example:

Non-contact processing;
Low heat input into the material;
Flexibility to drill a wide range of materials;
Accuracy and consistency;

The other benefits associated are drilling sub micron holes and small holes with large aspect ratios and drilling at angles.

Application Examples:

Drilling of flow filters and strainers;
Sub micron drilling in flexography ceramic rolls;
High speed drilling of guide vanes;
Drilling diamonds for removing imperfections;
On-the-fly-cooling holes;
Rock drilling ;

Typical Lasers for this application:

YPL Series: High Energy Pulsed Ytterbium Fiber Laser 2mJ @ 1070 nm

YPL Series: High Energy Pulsed Ytterbium Fiber Laser 10mJ @ 1070nm

YLR SM Series: 100W-1.5kW Single Mode Ytterbium Fiber Laser @1064 nm

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