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Parallel machining using high power copper vapour lasers

G. J. Dickinson, C. A. Keith, I. Maddocks, and M. B. Richardson

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Abstract

During recent years, interest has developed in the use of copper vapour laser light for precision machining applications. Urenco (Capenhurst) Ltd. has a major laser facility based on four chains of copper vapour lasers each capable of generating peak pulse powers of the order of 0.5 MW. This facility has been used to investigate the effect of beam characteristics on the quality of machining to develop a procedure for optimising parallel machining operations within the CLAMP program (EU 849). Figure 1 shows a schematic of the machining workstation.

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