How Fiber Laser Cutting Machine Works?

Fiber laser cutting machine is a currently popular laser cutting type which adopts fiber laser source to fulfil perfect cutting effect. Fiber lasers are a type of solid state laser that is rapidly growing within the metal cutting industry.

A Brief Comparison Between CO2 Laser vs Fiber Laser

fiber laser vs CO2 laser

Fiber technology utilizes a solid gain medium, as opposed to a gas or liquid. The “seed laser” produces the laser beam and is then amplified within a glass fiber. With a wavelength of only 1.064 micrometers, fiber lasers produce an extremely small spot size (up to 100 times smaller compared to the CO2) making it ideal for cutting reflective metal material.

Fiber laser source can outputs high-powered laser beam that focuses on the surface of materials, vaporizing or melting the focused area instantaneously. Controlled by numerical and mechanical system, the laser head is moved and laser spot is also changed accordingly to achieve automatic cutting with fast speed and high accuracy. Fiber laser cutter has been developed into a highly precise laser cutting type, widely used in metal parts processing industries.

Work Versatility of Fiber Laser Cutting Machine for Metals

Fiber laser cutting machine is able to process a wide range metal materials, including stainless steel, carbon steel, alloy steel, aluminum, galvanized sheet, copper, silver, gold and so on, for which different fiber laser sources could be opted regarding to the features of metals.

In addition to sheet metals cutting, fiber laser cutting machine also could process profiled metals and steel pipes. A set of steel pipe cutting system can be configured to the machine to broaden its cutting capacity. The cutting edge is neat and smooth to meet high industrial requirement.

Main Advantages of Fiber Laser Cutting

Fiber Laser Cutting Machine

• Fiber laser has higher energy conversion rate that can reach up to 30%, saving operation and maintenance cost.
• Fiber lasers are designed with semiconductor modular and redundancy, and there is no optical lens in resonant cavity. So no need to spend much time starting and adjusting the machine before cutting work, which is incomparable among traditional laser machines.
• Protective lens is configured in fiber laser head to protect focus lens and reduce parts consumption.
• Laser head won’t touch the materials directly so as not to scratch the materials and ensure quality cutting effect.
• Fiber laser produces the smallest kerf and thermal area, which keeps the cutting stability and avoid deformation of the material.
• 02mm/min cutting accuracy and fast cutting speed markedly increases the work efficiency of metal parts manufacturing.
• Fiber laser cutting machine works in a safe and environmentally friendly way. Little pollution and noise will be produced and workshop environment is well protected.

As a professional fiber laser equipment manufacturer, we are specialized in fiber laser cutting machine and fiber laser marking/engraving machine manufacturing and technical service. For more details about fiber laser cutting machine selection and operation, please contact us for customized laser solution to upgrade your business.

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5 Things to Know Before Buying Fiber Laser Cutting Machine

Purchasing a fiber laser cutting machine is never a simple thing no matter whether you buy it from local suppliers or overseas suppliers, because it concerns the return your investment will achieve and the benefits your business will receive.

fiber laser cutting machine

Before buying a fiber laser cutting machine, 5 things should be considered to gain the maximum vale from your investment.

Why Choose Fiber Laser Cutting Machine?

Fiber laser cutting machine is now increasingly used in metal processing industries. It has highly powerful fiber laser beam that works on sheet metals with precise and efficient cutting performance. The laser head won’t directly touch the surface of materials so that the cutting effect is completely protected. The auxiliary cutting gas can be chosen from oxygen and nitrogen, depending on what metal types you plan to work with. The residues produced in the cutting process could be blown out by auxiliary cutting gas and collect in the waste collection box below the lathe. Hence the total cutting process is clean and environmentally friendly.

When it comes to metal cutting, YAG laser, plasma laser, CO2 laser and fiber laser all are able to cut metals, but with different cutting thickness, speed, precision and efficiency. The main differences lie in that YAG cut metals with higher electrical consumption, low efficiency and high maintenance cost; plasma can be used to cut sheet and thick metals, and it especially works better on thick materials; CO2 laser cutting machine is also suitable for thick metals cutting with higher cost and not very high precision; fiber laser cutter is currently the leading laser cutting solution by virtue of its superior cutting accuracy (0.02mm/min), lower energy consumption, higher productivity and little maintenance.

How to Select a Fiber Laser Cutting Machine for Metals?

• Materials

You should decide whether your materials involve steel tubes, for which we could configure an extra fiber laser tube cutting device for the laser equipment. Also, if your materials contain highly reflective metals, such as silver, aluminum, red copper, etc, we would recommend you nLIGHT laser source which is perfectly suitable for reflective materials processing.

(http://www.morntech.com/blog/what-factors-should-you-consider-when-selecting-a-fiber-laser-cutting-machine/)

• Materials Size

Material size is also key to the fiber laser cutting machine selection. It’s decided by the size of both the products you manufacture and workshop space. You should take a careful measurement on them and then decide the size of work table or the lathe of fiber laser cutter.

• Cutting Thickness

In order to achieve perfect cutting effect and work efficiency, the thickness of material has to be matched with the wattage of fiber laser cutting machine. Also your intended productivity per day will help you choose the most productive wattage which has direct influence on cutting speed. Still, please note that different metals that have the same thickness require different wattage.

How to Choose a Reliable Fiber Laser Cutting Machine Manufacturer?

Choosing a fiber laser cutting machine manufacturer is sometimes like a bet with uncertainty and risk, especially in international transactions. Do not worry, as a professional laser machine manufacturer, we could assure you by the following 4 advantageous respects.

• Who We Are?

Jinan MORN Technology Co., Ltd. (MORN GROUP) is a leading laser machine manufacturers and exporter in China. We are specialized in fiber laser cutting machine and fiber laser marking machine with 10 years experience.

We provide a range of product models and configurations to meet diverse work needs and budgets. Branded with MORN LASER, our top-rated products are fiber laser series and CO2 lasers featured with superior quality, precise work performance and high speed.

We have provided user-centered laser product solutions for customers from more than 130 countries, where they run good business with our fiber laser equipment and give us more support to serve local customers and prospects.

• Factory Manufacturing

We have professional manufacturing and service flow, with production, R&D, technical sales, quality control and marketing sectors set up for offering exquisite laser solutions. Now we have 136 senior technicians, including 16 senior engineers, more than 50-person sales team and over 30 professional pre-sales & after-sales staff.

High grade raw materials, standard production lines, skilled workers and strict quality control all ensure the credible quality of our fiber laser metal cutting machines that have got CE and FDA certificates.

• Global Service

We provide quality fiber laser cutting machines with full service and technical support. Customized training service can help users operate the fiber laser machine quickly and safely. Overseas installation and maintenance service is also available for each customer. If you come across any machine fault, our 24-hour online after sales technicians are always here to offer instant solutions. Plus, we could recommend you our long-term cooperative customers in your local area, from which you could contact them to know better about our brand and our fiber laser cutters.

Free Sample TestBesides, since the day our company was established, we have been doing the global layout, and now we have applied for brand and patent protection in 55 countries. We have set up branches and agents in Europe, the United States and Southeast Asia.

If you are not sure whether our fiber laser cutting machine works well with your materials, we could try to cut them with our fiber lasers based on your requirement. Then we would send you the pictures and work videos of the whole process to you without charge.

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Most Popular FAQ

Do you manufacture your own Fiber Lasers?

Yes, we manufacture our own Fiber Lasers, from low power pulsed Lasers to high power lasers to help you find the most suitable and economical solution; from raw materials to the final finished laser product, we all produce them in our factory. In addition, our factory is equipped with advanced manufacturing facilities that guarantee a high standard production lines. Welcome to visit our factory and test our fiber laser cutters on the spot.

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Fiber Laser Metal Cutting Machine Reviews

“Subcontractors are most likely to adopt the new fiber technology, either those that specialize in cutting thin metal such as for point-of-sale sheet metal work and white goods, or firms using a fiber machine’s strengths to complement CO2 laser machines cutting thicker grades of plate.”

(https://www.industrial-lasers.com/articles/2013/11/fiber-versus-co2-laser-cutting.html)

“Current technology is changing and the costs and cutting speeds will change dynamically as manufacturers address issues related to nozzle design, focus lens length, and other pertinent data points. In other words, the operating costs and cutting speeds are not static. Fiber lasers are a somewhat younger technology and the cutting speeds may have a significant upside potential.”

(http://www.fsmdirect.com/cutting/laser-cutting/75-co2-versus-fiber-laser-cost-to-cut-a-part)

“Some popular laser machine brands can be also notorious in some cases. When selecting a fiber laser cutting machine, users should not only believe what they saw in the supplier’s website or advertising. If possible, try to visit the manufacturer and test the machine in the factory, to ensure your investment is worthy.”

(http://ace2011.org/2017/04/laser-company-reviews/)

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Affordable Cutting Solution with Fiber Laser Cutting Machine

Having been created several decades ago, fiber laser itself is not totally new to us, and since the 1980s, it has been used to weld metals. But nowadays fiber laser technology has also been utilized in metal cutting and marking which are now standing on the prosperous period of vigorous development.

If you are rightly searching for an affordable cutting solution for your business, then a fiber laser cutting machine may be a good option among all kinds of cutting methods. In particular, if the materials you want cut belong to metal family and are thinner than 4mm, a fiber laser cutting machine becomes more appropriate to you. Why? The following description will give you the answer.

Firstly, with the maturity of fiber laser technology and increasing investment being put into the laser field, the cost of buying a fiber laser cutting machine and relative expenditure of machine operation and maintenance grow lower than ever before. Thus you can cut a great part from your budget.

In addition, from the perspective of fiber laser cutting machine itself, it cuts metals via the way that the fiber laser melts or vaporizes the surface of materials in a flash, and meanwhile the auxiliary gas (oxygen or nitrogen) blows away the residue produced from melting metals, clean and fast. The thorough cutting process is so reassuring that you won’t worry about cleaning the machine or workplace.

Last but not least, the fiber laser cutter can cut with a pretty efficient energy utilization. Fiber laser beam has much shorter wavelength than traditional CO2 laser machine, which can be better absorbed by the metals and more perfect cutting results can be produced then. This also means higher cutting efficiency and lower operation cost.

In a word, fiber laser cutting machine can offer you an affordable cutting solution with higher cutting precision, lower energy consuming and faster cutting speed. You can directly contact us for more details about fiber laser machines.

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How Does Fiber Laser Marking System Work?

Comparing with CO2 laser marking machines or YAG laser marking machines, fiber laser marking machines are now taking the leading role in laser marking technologies. In other words, fiber laser marking system represents the ultimate laser marking technologies due to its extremely compact function and structure.

The main work principle of the fiber laser marking machine is that the fiber laser beam marks on the surface of different materials including metals and some non-metals in the forms of various patterns, logos or some other tags. These marks are permanent and won’t disappear with time going by. Therefore metals or non-metals can carry cultural connotation of products, companies, or special symbols to wider range of population and places, which marks not only patterns or characters, but culture and value.

With such advantageous technique, fiber laser marking machines can be used in a range of industries, such as auto parts, electronic components, mechanical parts, instruments, hardware tools, articles for daily use, etc. And in real marking process, the greater the power is, the faster and deeper the marking is. Generally, taking our fiber laser marking machine as an example, a 50W/100W machine can be utilized to mark on the sheet metals thinner than 1mm. The common marking depth is no more than 0.01mm, and if you persists marking in 0.1mm deep, a deeper fiber laser marking machine will be recommended. As for the marking speed, high-speed lens tends to marking at a faster speed, up to 7000mm/s; a common lens can marking at 2000mm/s to a maximum.

In addition, the fiber laser generator of our fiber laser marking machine has a very long lifespan that can work up to 100,000 hours, which will yield fat economic returns for you. If you are longing for further information about fiber laser machines, please feel free to contact us.

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How to Choose a Suitable Laser Cutting Machine for Metals?

Metal industry now has sprung up like mushrooms due to the high demand for metallic products and high precision equipment, such as elevators, metal advertising signage and metal cabinets. Metal cutting therefore posed a rapid development period in which metal cutting machines are largely demanded accordingly. If you chance to start up your metal cutting business with a metal cutter, then you really need to think about which kind of machine is the best deal.

We believe before beginning your business, you must have investigated some relative information about metal cutting and got familiar with something about laser cutting machines, the most mainstream cutting technology in modern metal cutting sector. After that, you may search for laser cutting machine suppliers and select your machine, in which process you may be at a loss or confront confusing situation on how to choose the best laser cutting machine for yourself. In view of this, here we would like to offer you some guidelines to help with your selection.

Firstly there are mainly two types of laser cutting machines in current market: fiber laser cutting machine and CO2 laser cutting machine, except for which some other unpopular cutting machines will not be mentioned here. To make a choice between these two types, you should firstly make sure which metal type you want to cut, whether it’s sheet metal or thick plate, and what your budget is.

Fiber laser cutters are best for sheet metals cutting with a pretty high precision and quality, and especially at a lower cost. And CO2 laser cutting machines are the leader of thick plates cutters, but with more operation cost and maintenance cost. This is the major difference of them, and you can dive into more details on our website to make a better option.

Also please do remember that never let the suppliers make the choice for you. They are accustomed to saying their machines are the best than others and can meet all your cutting need. In a word, to buy a suitable metal cutting machine, you should clearly know your condition (business plans, metal types to cut, budget, workplace environment, market potential, etc.), and then according to your condition analysis, choose a cutting machine that can be perfectly in line with your requirements.

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7 Benefits of Fiber Laser Cutting Machine Compared to CO2 Laser Cutting Machine

Acting as the mainstream cutting solutions, fiber laser and CO2 laser both take up a great place in modern laser industry. But if you dive into laser machines, you will find differences between these two technologies. This post intends to describe some advantages that make fiber laser machines stand out.

1.Fiber laser is delivered through an laser optic cable instead of mirrors and channel used by CO2 laser cutting machine, reducing power loss and increasing energy efficiency. So production cost can be lowered directly.

2.Fiber laser wavelength is ten times shorter than that of CO2 laser. More focused laser beam will be produced to interact with different metals.

3.Fiber laser machines can have dual interchangeable platforms where materials and finished cutting sheets can load or unload automatically to reduce boring repetitive work and save much time.

4.As sheet metals are more popular in manufacturing industries, sheet metals processing has played an increasing important part in various metal business. Fiber laser machines can perfectly cater to this need, while CO2 laser machines are more suitable for thick plates cutting.

5.Maintenance is also an essential part for machines. And little maintenance and devices replacement are required for a fiber laser machine, saving worry and money. Contrarily, a CO2 laser machine needs regular and annual maintenance with components replacement, which can cost you more than ten thousand a year.

6. Fiber laser cutting machine performs with a higher cutting precision and perfect cutting edge, for the tons of cutting table ensures the stability in whole cutting process and the gas will blow away the residue produced from cutting materials.

7. Advantages of fiber laser technology have attracted continuous investment and attention from industrial experts, researcher and investors, then a huge development potential exists in fiber laser field.

These introductions can not decide your laser business, but if you want to refresh your laser cutting business or upgrade your laser machines, we are willing to provide you with customized solutions. And for more details, you can also look for more posts under this blog.

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What are the Advantages and Application of Fiber Laser?

As Wikipedia defines, a fiber laser or fibre laser is a laser in which the active gain medium is an optical fiber doped with rare-earth elements. In modern industries, fiber laser has played an increasing significant role in laser processing fields, and this article plans to tell some advantages and application of fiber laser.

1.As its name supplies, fiber laser is a fact or phenomenon that light exits in fibers. And in this way the light can be delivered onto the surface of movable focusing objects, which is of great help to metal and polymers processing.

2.The waveguiding properties of the fiber can stop the thermal of optical path from distorting. So this high-quality optical beam can highly focus on the element with intensified thermal.

3.Fiber laser machine has a so compact size that more space can be saved.

4.High output power is the major advantageous element that superior to older solid state lasers.

5.Fiber laser can save more cost for users. You will save both operational cost and maintaining cost in actual fiber laser work.

6.Fiber laser has a good reliability resulting from its high temperature, dynamic stability, free maintenance and longer lifetime compare to other types of lasers.

7.High peak power and nanosecond pulses contribute to an efficient work in fiber laser engraving and marking.

8.High-quality laser beam and additional power can offer cleaner cutting results with faster speed.

9.Fiber laser technology raised throughput and reduced production cost compared to traditional lasers. Therefore it is now being widely used in high-performance devices and projects production.

Advantages of fiber laser help this technology to be welcomed by various industries. And application of fiber laser are mainly constituted by fiber laser engraving, cutting and marking with high precision, lower cost and faster speed. Also it frequently appears in medicine, telecommunications, spectroscopy and much more industries.

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