Darp
Industrial
- Feb 24, 2012
- 5
Hi, Just signed up.
Have a use for a cutting laser of about 2KW size. Am a newbie to cutting lasers but have been a newbie in several discplines and done OK. Two major question,
1. Can a beam strong enough to cut 1/16" steel be transporated long distances through fiber? Like 1,000 feet or 4,000 feet? What is a rough ballpark loss of power per 1,000 feet? Been looking for this info and can not find it so far, guess no one is trying to transport cutting power very far.
2. On CO2 machine understand that it would likely not work if you turned it upside down, but what about thse new fiber/solid state machines. Are there 2KW sized machines that could be rotated while working upside down?
Some additional things wondering about:
3. Also if you do say do a 2" radius bend on a fiber would there be much cutting power loss?
4. Am thinking about muliplexing one beam to 50 different fibers so the pulses would be spaced out longer but all 50 would be cutting, although at slower rate. Does such an ability to muliplex one beam to many fibers exist?
Thank you greatly in advance.
Also if any of you are in the Reno NV area we are looking for an laser cutting expert on a project.
-Darp
Have a use for a cutting laser of about 2KW size. Am a newbie to cutting lasers but have been a newbie in several discplines and done OK. Two major question,
1. Can a beam strong enough to cut 1/16" steel be transporated long distances through fiber? Like 1,000 feet or 4,000 feet? What is a rough ballpark loss of power per 1,000 feet? Been looking for this info and can not find it so far, guess no one is trying to transport cutting power very far.
2. On CO2 machine understand that it would likely not work if you turned it upside down, but what about thse new fiber/solid state machines. Are there 2KW sized machines that could be rotated while working upside down?
Some additional things wondering about:
3. Also if you do say do a 2" radius bend on a fiber would there be much cutting power loss?
4. Am thinking about muliplexing one beam to 50 different fibers so the pulses would be spaced out longer but all 50 would be cutting, although at slower rate. Does such an ability to muliplex one beam to many fibers exist?
Thank you greatly in advance.
Also if any of you are in the Reno NV area we are looking for an laser cutting expert on a project.
-Darp