LASERS IN ACTION
Heart rate
monitoring
AKL’10 focuses on
products
turn to laser
practical laser use
welding
AKL’10, the International Laser Mechatronical Technologies the next generation of diode,
Technology Congress, will take (Spectaris), the German fibre and solid-state lasers.
Polar, a manufacturer of heart place from 5 to 7 May in Association of the Automobile Within the framework of the
rate training technology, is using Aachen, Germany. Attracting Industry (VDA) and the German sponsor’s exhibition, around 30
laser welding technology on its more than 500 participants, 60 Association of Machine and companies will present practical
plastic training computer speakers and 30 exhibitors, the Plant Construction (VDMA). laser-based solutions to the
components. Using technology event will discuss practical The wide range of lectures professional public for a whole
from Cencorp, Polar employs a applications of lasers. will be delivered in complete range of areas within
process whereby the laser beam AKL’10 is organised by the German and English manufacturing.
is guided along the welding path Fraunhofer Institute for Laser simultaneous translations. From The climax of the congress will
by a high-speed scanner. Laser Technology ILT. Supporting newcomers via system providers be the presentation of the
welding improves the visual organisations include the all the way to laser users, AKL’10 Innovation Award Laser
design of Polar products, as the European Commission, the will offer something relevant for Technology, endowed with
joint between the parts no Association of German every target group. 10,000 euros, on 5 May. It will be
longer needs to be hidden. It Engineers (VDI), the The technological symposium awarded by the Arbeitskreis
also has added flexibility and Arbeitskreis Lasertechnik, and will inform users and Lasertechnik and the European
precision, as it easily enables the European Laser Institute, as manufacturers about the latest Laser Institute. The application
changes to the weld width. well as the following industrial developments and practical documents can be downloaded
Cencorp’s laser welding associations: the European experience with laser production from www.innovation-award-
process for plastics produces Federation of Precision processes such as laser welding, laser.org. In addition, AKL’10 will
reliable joints and excellent Mechanical and Optical cutting, drilling and removal. offer laser users and
repeatability, especially in Industries (EUROM), the The conference will also manufacturers the opportunity to
applications that need to be German Industrial Association emphasise new laser sources, network and exchange experience
waterproof. Monitoring of the for Optical, Medical and like ultra-short pulse lasers or during the entire event.
welding process and quality
assurance features can further
enhance the high quality and
reliability of laser welding and
Diode laser assembly automated
can extend to a variety of
different product designs. The joint research project or telecommunication, these This test comes about by
Cencorp manufactures ‘PrOpSys’ (production lasers play a pivotal role in the means of specially developed
standard and custom-built laser technology of optical systems for fast-growing market of methods of digital image
marking, laser cutting, laser high power diode lasers), funded optoelectronic products. Up to processing for analysis of the
welding, laser drilling and laser by the German federal ministry now, these high power diode intensity distribution of laser
micromachining workstations of education and research lasers still need to be manually radiation. As result of this image
for standalone and in-line (BMBF) has reported a successful assembled in complex analysis, the optimised position
production. intermediate result. With the adjustment and assembly steps. for the lens is defined by the help
Antti Huoviala, project leader help of a novel assembling In automatic adjustment, firstly of appropriate alignment
of manufacturing technology at system, fully automated assembly the laser diode bar is activated. algorithms. Finally, the lens is
Polar, said: ‘Use of laser welding and adjustment of a high-power Thereupon, the collimator lens is fixed in an exact position in front
in the assembly process has diode laser was demonstrated for located in front of the diode laser of the laser diode bar.
offered new design the very first time. This opens up with the help of a micrometer- The system has been
opportunities for us. It produces the way to a significant decrease exact positioning system. This is assembled by ficonTEC and is
a clean, refined finish with a of manufacturing costs in the done so that the connected now running at the Fraunhofer
strong joint. We have learned to highly competitive high-power metrology can collect and IZM. The institute serves as a
use laser welding technology diode laser market. evaluate the laser radiation. The technology test bed for
and now the manufacturing Due to the fact that high- innovation of this development development of further
process is repeatable and easily power diode lasers are used as a lies in the fact that several optimised adjustment and
managed, which saves our light source in many other positions of the collimator lens assembling processes for
resources.’ industries such as automotive, can be tested in front of the laser mass-production manufacturing
plant machinery and engineering diode bar. of optoelectronic products.
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