Abstract:
A TEMoo mode laser beam is focused on a material to be welded to a power density sufficiently high, depending upon the material of the workpiece, so that deep penetration welding occurs producing a weld having a depth-to-width ratio substantially greater than 1. To initiate the weld, the incident power density and power must be sufficiently high to overcome the relatively high reflectivity of metallic workpieces. With relative movement between the workpiece and the beam, seam welding can be performed, as well as lap welding and blind welding.
Abstract:
C02 particles, including small particles for laser chamber cooling and large particles for remote mixing purposes, are injected into the stream of an excited energizing gas in a gas laser, the solid C02 subliming to a gas, becoming excited through resonant collision energy transfer with the energizing gas, and emitting photons so as to generate the laser output.