High-power transverse flow CWCO2 laser for material processing applications

被引:20
作者
Nath, AK [1 ]
Reghu, T [1 ]
Paul, CP [1 ]
Ittoop, MO [1 ]
Bhargava, P [1 ]
机构
[1] Ctr Adv Technol, Ind CO2 Laser Sect, Indore 452013, India
关键词
CO2; laser; transverse flow; DC excitation;
D O I
10.1016/j.optlastec.2004.04.015
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
A transverse flow transversely excited (TFTE) CW CO2 with a maximum output power about 15 kW has been developed. This is excited by pulser sustained DC discharge applied between a pair of multi-pins anodes and a common tubular cathode. Though the laser power in convective cooled CO2 laser scales proportionally with the volumetric gas flow, it did not increase in this laser when the volumetric gas flow was increased by increasing the electrode separation keeping the flow velocity constant. The discharge voltage too remained almost unchanged with increase of the electrode separation. These observations are explained considering the electrical discharge being controlled by ionization instability. Laser materials processing applications often demand programming facilities for laser power modulation. A four-stage cascaded multilevel DC-DC converter-based high-frequency switch mode power supply has been developed to modulate the output power of the laser. Laser was operated up to 15 kW output power in four different modes viz. continuous wave mode, pulse periodic mode, single shot mode and processing velocity-dependent power mode with 1.2 kHz modulation bandwidth. We describe briefly the laser system, the SNIPS, and the temporal behavior of laser beam. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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