What is a fiber laser cutting machine?

The fiber laser cutting machine can drastically improve the efficiency of production for metal fabrication shops or companies. A fiber laser cutting machine is a currently popular cutting type that adopts fiber laser sources to fulfill the perfect cutting effect. To help, this article provides detailed information to help you learn more about this kind of machine.

The Content list:

1/ What is a fiber laser cutting machine

2/ Features of the fiber laser cutting machines

What is a fiber laser cutting machine?

A fiber laser works by focusing a high-powered laser source directly onto metals below the focusing lens within the cutting head. This high-powered energy beam is then activated and absorbed by the material, producing extremely high temperatures to melt the materials. Controlled by a numerical and mechanical system, the laser head is moved and the laser spot is also changed accordingly to achieve automatic cutting with fast speed and high accuracy. Each metal cutting laser machine is powered by a windows-based system, enabling full control over the machine and the production files, giving on-the-fly changes to files, by the operator whilst at the machine.

Fiber lasers are best suited for high-contrast markings like metal annealing, etching, and engraving. They produce an extremely small focal diameter, making them the ideal choice for permanent marking of serial numbers, barcodes, and data matrix on metals. Fiber lasers are widely used for product traceability and identification applications. Fiber lasers also have a growing demand for industrial cleaning applications such as removing rust, paint, oxides, and other contaminants.

Fiber laser cutting machines are fast becoming more affordable to many more industries and businesses than ever before. The cost of a fiber laser system will greatly vary depending on your applications.

Features of the fiber laser cutting machines

Compared to CO2 lasers, one big plus is fiber lasers are maintenance-free machines, and they have a long service life. They are also smaller than CO2 lasers. Plus, due to the high electrical efficiency of fiber lasers, they use significantly less power than CO2 lasers, resulting in huge cost savings for cutting applications. Here are some main advantages of fiber laser cutting:

1/ Fiber laser has a higher energy conversion rate that can reach up to 30%, saving operation and maintenance costs.

2/ Fiber laser produces the smallest kerf and thermal area, which keeps the cutting stability and avoids deformation of the material.

3/ Laser cutting machines are designed with semiconductor modular and redundancy, and there is no optical lens in the resonant cavity. So, no need to spend much time starting and adjusting the machine before cutting work, which is incomparable among traditional laser machines.

4/ Fiber laser cutting machine works in a safe and environmentally friendly way. Little pollution and noise will produce and the workshop environment is well protected.

5/ Protective lens is configured in fiber laser head to protect focus lens and reduce parts consumption.

6/ Laser head won’t touch the materials directly so as not to scratch the materials and ensure the quality cutting effect.

7/ 0.2mm/min cutting accuracy and fast cutting speed markedly increase the work efficiency of metal parts manufacturing.

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