What is a ytterbium fiber laser?
Thorlabs’ Y-Fi™ Femtosecond Ytterbium Fiber Laser is a high peak power, NIR laser that emits clean, ultrafast pulses centered at 1035 nm.
What is fibre laser used for?
Fiber lasers are everywhere in the modern world. Due to the different wavelengths they can generate, they are widely used in industrial environments to perform cutting, marking, welding, cleaning, texturing, drilling and a lot more. They are also used in other fields such as telecommunication and medicine.
What type of laser is a fiber laser?
So a fiber laser is a type of laser which uses fiber doped with rare-earth elements (erbium, thulium, ytterbium) etc. as active laser medium. This differentiates the fiber laser to other types of laser available on the market, where the active laser medium is a crystal (e.g. disk laser) or gas (e.g. CO2 laser).
What is suitable laser for fiber optics?
Lasers have proven to be ideal light sources because of their high bandwidth capability and narrow spectral output. There are 3 main types of lasers in the market today for fiber optic transmitters – VCSELs, FP lasers and DFB lasers.
Where is ytterbium found?
Ytterbium is found with other rare-earth elements in several rare minerals. It is most often recovered commercially from monazite sand (0.03% ytterbium). The element is also found in euxenite and xenotime. The main mining areas are China, the United States, Brazil, India, Sri Lanka, and Australia.
How do Fibre lasers work?
The beam is generated and confined inside the small core of the fibre. In practice, this means that the beam is very straight, and that it can be focused on a very small dot. The smaller the dot, the more effective the laser will be for cutting, for example, but in many uses for lasers this quality is required.
Can fibre laser cut wood?
All types of wood can be cut with a optical fiber laser cutting machine, such as plywood and MDF. But for safety reasons, we do not recommend using a cnc fiber laser cutting machine to engrave oily woods, because it may create poor marks and even cause serious fire hazards.
How much is a fiber laser?
Fiber lasers usually cost in the range of $20,000 to $45,000.
What is ytterbium used for?
Uses of Ytterbium It is used as a doping agent to improve the strength, grain refinement and mechanical properties of stainless steel. It also acts as an industrial catalyst. Few alloys of Ytterbium are used in dentistry.
What can yttrium be used to make?
– University of Cambridge: Superconductor breakthrough could power new advances – Los Alamos National Laboratory: Yttrium – U.S. Geological Survey: Yttrium
Is yttrium natural or synthetic?
Yttrium aluminium garnet, also known as YAG, is a very important synthetic mineral. It is used to make hard, artificial diamonds, which sparkle just like the real ones. What is more, by introducing small quantities of lanthanide ions, materials with a range of useful properties can be made.
What is the electron configuration for yttrium?
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What is the cost of yttrium?
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