Laser Cutting

The newest StingRay structured light generating laser from Coherent Inc. offers up to 50 mW of output in the blue (450 nm), making it especially advantageous for machine vision applications based on 3D triangulation that involve darker materials.

Beamer Laser Marking Systems debuts a new 24" indexable turntable at its booth during IMTS 2014. Beamer, which suffered a fire in January, expects to move into its new 6,500 sq. ft. facility in October. The new facility will be dedicated to producing laser marking systems.

Garr Tool Co., a toolmaker in Alma, Mich., has purchased six laser-marking machines from Beamer Laser Marking Systems since 2008. Four of the machines are automated, except for an operator setting up the format. The other two are manual systems for small-quantity production runs and blueprint specials. Garr Tool, which laser marks more than 2 million solid-carbide endmills a year, uses fiber diode-pump laser marking machines from Beamer.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. (MHI) has developed a laser micromachining system, dubbed the "ABLASER," as its first product in the laser processing machine business.

Preco Inc. introduces high-speed, discrete-part, laser-processing system for "tool free" processing of coil-fed metallic materials.

Coherent Inc. offers a platform reportedly designed to deliver all the benefits of ultrafast laser materials processing at a lower price point than previously available. Specifically, RAPID NX combines the best aspects of Coherent's Talisker and RAPID series lasers, including pulse-on-demand and burst mode operation.

A line of direct field-replacement CO₂ laser lenses and mirrors that are shipped overnight from stock and fit popular lasers used for gasket fabrication are available from Laser Research Optics.

TeraDiode has announced shipment of its first four kilowatt high brightness TeraBlade laser doubling the power density of the direct-diode platform.

Laser Machining Technologies LLC, a division of The LMT Group, has added to its Cobalt product line.

Universal Laser Systems Inc. extends its product portfolio with the XLS product family.

A line of replacement CO₂ nozzles offered in various materials and configurations for popular CO₂ lasers such as Trumpf and Mitsubishi is being introduced by Laser Research Optics.

An advanced optical cleaning kit for properly cleaning CO₂ laser optics and other types of lenses, mirrors, and windows subjected to contaminants is available from Laser Research Optics.