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    Laser cutting is a technology that uses a laser to vaporize materials, resulting in a cut edge. While typically used for industrial manufacturing applications...
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  • cutting is being progressively replaced by laser cutting, due mainly to the laser cutter's superior hole-cutting abilities. A specialized use of CNC plasma...
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    to a tight spot, enabling applications such as laser cutting and lithography. It also allows a laser beam to stay narrow over great distances (collimation)...
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    of heat treated alloys, and laser cutting is less suitable for highly reflective materials such as aluminum. Laser cutting sheet metal produces flat parts...
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    obtained. Cutting speeds on thin 1.2 mm (0.047 in) sheet can be as high as 25 m (82 ft) per minute. Most laser cutting systems use a CO2 based laser source...
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    used in fiber laser. The cutting depth of a laser is directly proportional to the quotient obtained by dividing the power of the laser beam by the product...
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  • In textile manufacturing, a laser cutting bridge system is an industrial machine for cutting and engraving textile materials (i.e. fabrics). It is formed...
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    taps. In fabrication of structural steel by plasma and laser cutting, robots move the cutting head in three dimensions around the cut material. Forming...
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    industrial and commercial laser applications includes: Laser cutting Laser welding Laser drilling Laser marking Laser cleaning Laser cladding, a surface engineering...
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  • for laser cutting, welding, and folding of metals and polymers. Another advantage is high output power compared to other types of laser. Fiber lasers can...
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    heraldic crest and shield. Carbon dioxide lasers cut through leather very smoothly, and at low power a laser cutter can etch detailed designs into leather...
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  • system. There are also completely contact-free cutting techniques, such as laser cutting and water jet cutting, both usually embedded on CNC machines.[citation...
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    directed energy of lasers is often associated with heating materials, e.g. laser cutting, so it can be counterintuitive that laser cooling often results...
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    cells are not affected by the laser beam. Even live cells are not damaged by the laser cutting and are viable after cutting for cloning and reculturing...
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    Laser cutting may be used to form intricate designs from PMMA sheets. PMMA vaporizes to gaseous compounds (including its monomers) upon laser cutting...
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    stretchable two-dimensional auxetic metamaterial sheets fabricated via direct-laser cutting". International Journal of Mechanical Sciences. 167: 105242. doi:10...
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    80 watt laser cutter named "Retina Smelter 9000", in which different unconventional materials were examined for their ease of laser cutting. Early in...
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    copper vapor laser (CVL) uses vapors of copper as the lasing medium in a 4-level laser. It produces green laser light at 510.6 nm and yellow laser light at...
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    and operations. These include laser cutting, welding, friction stir welding, ultrasonic welding, flame and plasma cutting, bending, spinning, hole-punching...
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    gas-electric hybrid variant. Peresvet (laser weapon) List of laser articles "Cutting performance of a chemical oxygen-iodine laser on aerospace and industrial materials"...
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    offers machines for bending, punching, combined punch and laser processing, and also laser cutting and welding applications. Diverse automation solutions[buzzword]...
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    ion laser is a gas laser that uses an ionized gas as its lasing medium. Like other gas lasers, ion lasers feature a sealed cavity containing the laser medium...
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    Laser radiation safety is the safe design, use and implementation of lasers to minimize the risk of laser accidents, especially those involving eye injuries...
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  • suite, and is commonly used for production art in signmaking, vinyl and laser cutting and engraving, print-on-demand and other industry processes. Reduced-feature...
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  • repeatability of dimensions in laser-cut stencils is generally better than that of chemical etching. With laser cutting, there are no photo films requiring...
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  • Mine action is a combination of humanitarian aid and development studies that aims to remove landmines and reduce the social, economic and environmental...
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  • effluent from the decomposition of Teflon when laser cutting it. "Laser cutting teflon". Universal Laser Systems, Inc. This set index article lists chemical...
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  • Die (manufacturing) (category Cutting tools)
    Continuous-feed laser cutting may displace the analogous die-based process in the automotive industry, among others. Blanking and piercing are two die cutting operations...
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    Laser engraving is the practice of using lasers to engrave an object. Laser marking, on the other hand, is a broader category of methods to leave marks...
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  • mechanical sawing (normally with a machine called a dicing saw) or laser cutting. All methods are typically automated to ensure precision and accuracy...
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