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Laser technologies

Experimental comparison of laser energy losses in high-quality laser-oxygen cutting of low-carbon steel using radiation from fibre and CO₂ lasers

A. A. Golyshev, A. G. Malikov, A. M. Orishich, V. B. Shulyat'ev

Khristianovich Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk

Abstract: We report a comparative experimental study of laseroxygen cutting of low-carbon steel using a fibre laser with a wavelength of 1.07 μm and a CO₂ laser with a wavelength of 10.6 μm at the sheet thickness of 3–16 mm. For the two lasers we have measured the dependence of the cutting speed on the radiation power and determined the cutting speed at which the surface roughness is minimal. The coefficient of laser radiation absorption in the laser cutting process is measured for these lasers at different values of the cutting speed and radiation power. It is found that the minimal roughness of the cut surface is reached at the absorbed laser energy per unit volume of the removed material, equal to 11–13 J mm^-3; this value is the same for the two lasers and does not depend on the sheet thickness.

Keywords: laser-oxygen cutting, fibre laser, CO₂ laser, cut quality, optimisation, absorption coefficient, specific energy absorption.

PACS: 42.55.Lt, 42.55.Wd, 42.62.Cf

Received: 24.12.2014
Revised: 01.04.2015

 English version: Quantum Electronics, 2015, 45:9, 873–878

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