Laser Technology

Produktionstechnik, WING, 6. + 8. Semester

This lecture is held in the summer semester.
The exam takes place at the end of the semester.

Contents
- Fundamentals, basic laser elements and modes of operation
  (laser principle, light amplification)
- Laser resonator (beam propagation, beam guidance, feedback, generation of modes)
 - Important industrial lasers (structure, function, beam profile, efficiency, costs,
   application fields)
- Interactions (absorption mechanism, heat conduction in the component,
  melting dynamics)
- Laser beam welding (capillary formation, energy balance, plasma formation,
  polarization influence, application examples)
- Laser beam cutting (cutting principle, nozzle, gas flow, influence of polarization, application examples)
  influence, application examples)
- Laser surface treatment (alloying, dispersing, generating, hardening,
  remelting)

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