CONTENTS


HIGHLIGHTS... 12


20


Interview: Stéphane Bussa Lasea Group


Excimer Laser Tape Manufacturing


22 Laser Mesh Deposition Repairs


24


SLM Beam Shaping Arrays


26 Water Spray


Assisted Drilling


28


Femto Lasers in Electronics


ASSOCIATION NEWS First Word


President’s Message Association News


CASE STUDIES


EARLY CAREERS GROUP EDITORIAL


Interview: Stéphane Bussa, Lasea Group Job Shop Corner


APPLICATION NOTE CO2


laser airbag cutting


FOCUS ON RESEARCH University of Southampton


BUSINESS NEWS PRODUCT NEWS EVENTS


MAIN FEATURES


4 5 6


8-9, 33-34 10


12 14


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17 18


30 35


Fusion’s Fast Track: Excimer Lasers Supercharge HTS-Tape Production Ralph Delmdahl, Coherent Lasersystems GmbH


Thomas Girerd et al., University of Nottingham


High-Performance NIR Laser-Beam Shaping Processing at 350 W


Shuchen Zuo et al., University of Manchester 24


Water-Spray Assisted Laser Drilling (SALaD): Insights Priyanka Ghosh et al., Manufacturing Technology Centre 26


Femtosecond Lasers are Advancing Consumer Electronics


Deividas Andriukaitis et al., Ekspla 28 20


Laser Mesh Deposition: A New Laser DED Method for Repair


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