Water jet guided laser cutting technology is a relatively new technology which utilizes a water jet and laser beam pulsed nd.
Water jet guided laser cutting.
Yorkshire profiles ltd provides laser cutting services and waterjet cutting services to a wide variety of clients throughout the uk.
This technology is associated to valuable advantages in laser micromachin ing as compared to its cooling.
The technology is able to cut with high precision without blurs.
Materials that range in thickness from 0 4 to 2 in benefit from water jet cutting.
Precision cutting with water jet guided laser.
Waterjet cutting is not quite as precise as laser cutting with a minimum cut size slit of 02.
The laser microjet lmj is a hybrid method of machining which combines a laser with a hair thin water jet that precisely guides the laser beam by means of total internal reflection in a manner similar to conventional optical fibers.
This article reviews the characteristics of this new technology and its usage in laser.
We have put a lot of effort in making the waterjet guided laser system particularly robust and easy to maintain in order to adapt it to todays.
Our waterjet and laser machines allow cnc cutting on a wide range of materials.
The water jet continually cools the cutting zone and efficiently removes debris.
From one offs to large b.
Water jet guided laser cutting using pulsed lasers has re cently attracted considerable interest 1 5.
Please note that the conventional dry laser based cutting processes with coaxial gas assist.
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Therefore three approaches of water jet guided laser cutting of cfrp were conducted in this paper to study the feasibility and characteristics of the process.
Synova is the pioneer of a unique water jet guided laser technology laser microjet providing high precision cutting solutions for the metal semiconductor and diamond industries.
Water jets usually perform cutting ablation and structuring specifically with materials like stone ceramics and thick metals.
It also produces less heat and pollution at the cutting zone unlike conventional machining.
Excellent cutting edges absence of burr reduced heat input and the possibility to process very high aspect ratios are the main advantages of our waterjet guided laser cutting against conventional laser cutting and drilling technology the results achievable with clean cutting by sitec are comparable to those of eroding processes.
