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High-Power Fiber Lasers

High-Power Fiber Lasers

High-Power Fiber Lasers

Product catalog summary
Introduction
The nLIGHT CFX-3000, CFX-4000, and CFX-5000 are high-power fiber lasers designed for advanced metal processing. These lasers offer programmable beam quality, allowing users to adjust beam settings for optimal performance in various applications, including both thick and thin metal cutting.

Key Features
  • Power Options: Available in 3kW, 4kW, and 5kW models, providing excellent productivity for cutting and welding.
  • Beam Tuning: Users can optimize beam size and shape, maintaining performance with spot sizes from 100µm to 300µm and beam shapes from top-hat to donut mode.
  • Rapid Beam Switching: Beam adjustments can be made in less than 30ms, allowing real-time process optimization while maintaining full power.
  • Back-Reflection Protection: Hardware-based protection enables processing of reflective metals without interruptions or damage.
  • Integrated Beam Shaping: Eliminates the need for complex hardware like free-space optics and zoom process heads.
  • Serviceability: Modular design simplifies repairs and maximizes uptime.

Specifications
  • Optical: Continuous wave/modulated operation, random polarization, and programmable beam quality with a wavelength of 1070 ± 10nm.
  • Electrical: Operates on 380 – 480VAC, 3-phase power, with various control interfaces including Ethernet and API.
  • Mechanical: Dimensions are 685 × 800 × 560mm, with a 20m optical fiber and water cooling method.
  • Environmental: Operating temperature range is +10 to +40°C, with storage temperatures from -10 to +60°C and relative humidity of 10 to 80%.

Beam Control Example
The document provides examples of typical beam outputs, demonstrating the versatility in beam characteristics necessary for optimizing different applications. For instance, a small flat-top beam with a diameter of 100µm is suitable for metal piercing and thin metal processing.

Conclusion
nLIGHT's fiber lasers offer a combination of speed, quality, and cost-effectiveness, making them suitable for a wide range of metal processing applications. The company emphasizes continuous product improvement and reliability, with detailed specifications and safety warnings included.
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Catalog excerpts

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High-Power Fiber Lasers Programmable beam quality for advanced metal processing All-new nLIGHT® CFX-3000, CFX-4000, and CFX-5000 high-power fiber lasers give users the ability to tune the beam settings based on their application. With a single fiber laser, users can rapidly select from high-intensity, small-spot-size beams to large, donut-shaped beams, and everything in between. This dramatic advance allows optimal thick and thin metal cutting, higher cutting speed, superior quality, and improved piercing and small-feature processing with a single tool. End users get the best of all worlds—the speed of high-power fiber lasers for thin metal processing, the quality of CO2 lasers for thick metal processing, and the high uptime and lower operating costs of a fiber laser solution. • Back-Reflection Protection Delivers excellent productivity for advanced cutting and welding applications. Hardware-based back-reflection protection allows processing of even the most reflective metals with no interruptions or damage to the laser. • Optimized Tuning of Beam Size and Shape Maintains fiber laser performance, stability, efficiency, and reliability with spot sizes from 100µm to 300µm and beam shapes from top-hat to donut mode. • Breakthrough Integrated Beam Shaping Removal of free-space optics, zoom process heads, and external fiber-to-fiber couplers avoids complex performance-limiting hardware. • Rapid Beam Switching Beam adjustments in less than 30ms allows for real-time optimization of each process step while maintaining full power operation to maximize productivity. Unparalleled Serviceability Modular design simplifies repairs and max

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nLIGHT 3, 4 and 5kW Industrial Fiber Laser Specifications Models Optical Specifications Mode of Operation Maximum Average Power, CW Power Tunability Modulation Frequency Rise and Fall Times Beam Quality Supply Voltage Control Interface, Standard External hardware control, analog power control, analog monitors, Ethernet control, GUI, and API EtherCAT, EtherNet/IP, DeviceNet, Profinet, Profibus Control Interface, Optional Mechanical Specifications Dimensions (W x D x H) Optical Fiber Cooling Method Environmental Specifications Operating Temperature1 Storage Temperature nLIGHT Beam Control Example...

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