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    • Andreas Rudolf

    Additive Manufacturing Market Development Manager, nLIGHT

    Andreas Rudolf is additive manufacturing market development manager at nLIGHT (Camas, WA).        

    FIGURE 1. An AFX laser incorporates all-fiber beam shaping, which allows rapid switching of the output beam size and shape. The beam profile can be tuned between true single-mode and a ring, plus a variety of shapes in between. When interacting with the workpiece, ring- and saddle-shaped beams create significantly less soot and spatter.
    Laser Processing

    Ring beams change the game for powder-bed fusion

    Rob Martinsen
    Aug. 25, 2022
    Fiber beam shaping plays a key role on the path to laser powder-bed fusion for additive manufacturing of metals.