Reactive Gas Assisted Laser Cutting - Physical Mechanism And Technical Limitations

Dieter Schuocker

doi:10.1117/12.935403

26 October 1983 Reactive Gas Assisted Laser Cutting - Physical Mechanism And Technical Limitations

Dieter Schuocker

Proceedings Volume 0398, Industrial Applications of Laser Technology; (1983) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.935403
Event: 1983 International Technical Conference/Europe, 1983, Geneva, Switzerland

Abstract

From movies showing the laser cutting process in acrylic glass, it points out that the erosion takes place at a nearly vertical plane at the momentary end of the cut. That plane is covered by a thin molten layer, that is heated by absorbed laser radiation and by reaction. The removal of material from that layer is carried out by evaporation and by ejection of molten material due to the friction between the melt and the reactive gas flow. A computer simulation of that model yields a more detailed understanding of laser cutting and agrees well with experimental investigations.

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Dieter Schuocker "Reactive Gas Assisted Laser Cutting - Physical Mechanism And Technical Limitations", Proc. SPIE 0398, Industrial Applications of Laser Technology, (26 October 1983); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.935403

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