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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299934703321

Autore

Poprawe Reinhart

Titolo

Tailored Light 1 [[electronic resource] ] : High Power Lasers for Production / / by Reinhart Poprawe, Konstantin Boucke, Dieter Hoffman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018

ISBN

3-642-01234-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (268 pages)

Collana

RWTHedition, , 1865-0899

Disciplina

621.366

Soggetti

Manufactures

Materials science

Microwaves

Optical engineering

Manufacturing, Machines, Tools, Processes

Characterization and Evaluation of Materials

Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Laser Technology -- Introduction -- Electro-magnetic radiation -- Propagation of electro-magnetic waves -- Laser beams -- Optical resonators -- Absorption and emission of radiation -- Generation of laser beams -- Laser media and laser systems.

Sommario/riassunto

The Laser world consists basically of two areas, which are necessary and in many cases also sufficient for effective innovation: The right laser for the right application. For the individual application that means the determination of optimized process parameters in terms of laser power, peak power/ intensity, focus geometry and dimension, pulse length, pulse repetition rate and wavelength to name only the six most important ones. Once these parameters are identified, the corresponding Laser has to be selected on the basis of commercial availability. Obviously there is no such thing than "One Laser for all". The situation is rather comparable with electrical power, were depending on the demand of the application in terms of voltage, current and time corresponding power supplies need to be tailored,



however, with the difference that in the case of the Laser the variety of parameters is even higher, thus the technology is more complex but on the other hand much more fl exible in terms optimizing the source to the application. As a consequence it is suggested to generate two volumes on Lasers and Applications named "Tailored Light".