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Thu 20-06-2013  |
BRIDLE - Brilliant Industrial Diode Laser |
| The BRIDLE project brings together seven European industrial and academic partners who seek to harness the power and efficiency of diode lasers to develop an affordable direct diode laser source for industrial applications requiring the cutting and welding of sheet metal.
The BRIDLE project seeks to deliver a technological breakthrough in cost effective, high-brilliance diode lasers for industrial applications. By employing advanced high-power diode laser technologies and beam combination architectures, dramatic improvements in performance, cost, manufacturability and future scalability will be achieved. During the project, these technologies will be integrated into a sequence of increasingly high-brilliance demonstrators, each targeting specific industrial applications, leading up to an affordable diode laser source with an output power of >2kW from a Φ100μm optical fibre and efficiency >40%, which will target industrial applications requiring the cutting and welding of sheet metal. Read more at bridle.eu |
