YAG lasers can be used for cutting sheet metal and thin metal tubing as well as for light welding purposes. YAG lasers, like many other laser varieties, are also excellent tools for engraving and etching. In applications like computer components manufacturing in which etching is often called for, but in which contact with heavy etching machinery could damage the component, YAG lasers offer an effective etching method in which no contact between components and machinery take place. Read More…
Leading Manufacturers
Isotech, Inc.
Hatfield, PA | 800-252-2645Isotech offers a full range of Fiber, C02, UV, Green, MOPA, Nanosecond, Picosecond and Femtosecond laser systems for marking, cutting and welding of many substrates. Isotech offers both standard systems as well as fully automated or custom systems depending on your specific requirements. Integrated, automated solutions with conveyors, palletized pick and place, rotary dial tables, hoppers, and robots are all part of the engineering we offer.
Cincinnati Incorporated
Harrison, OH | 513-367-7100Cincinnati Incorporated maintains a modern industrial facility where product development, manufacturing, sales and support are combined to assure complete customer service and satisfaction. Manufacturing lasers, press brakes, shears and parts marker presses, our technicians are backed by a factory-based technical support group and the same engineering staff that designed your equipment.
Coherent, Inc.
Santa Clara, CA | 408-764-4000Coherent manufactures the industry's most diversified selection of laser-based photonics products. These include laser systems, industrial lasers, marking lasers, high-power diode lasers, crystals and laser measurement and control solutions for commercial, scientific and biomedical markets.
Automark
Lakeway, TX | 512-593-7100If your business has a challenging component to mark on, our team at Automark will help you solve the problem. We supply laser and marking systems for a multitude of industries. Our team of engineers is ready and willing to tackle any of your challenging assignments. If you have any questions feel free to give us a call and a representative will speak with you today!
Cutting Edge Optronics
St. Charles, MO | 636-916-4900Cutting Edge Optronics, a Northrop Grumman Company, is a leading provider of high-power diode laser arrays, high-power pump modules and DPSS lasers. As a vertically integrated manufacturer, we manufacture and are capable of supplying unmounted diode bars, packaged laser diodes, DPSS modules, laser diode drivers and complete DPSS laser systems. Our diode laser based products have become industry standards.
Micor Industries, Inc
Decatur, AL | 256-560-0770Micor Industries, Inc. provides global contract manufacturing services, using the latest technology in CNC machining, metal parts fabrication, welding, finishing, laser marking and precision tools and techniques. ISO 9001:2008 and AS9100 certified, Micor Industries specializes in value-added manufacturing services with a focus on quality, lean manufacturing and customer-driven solutions.
YAG Lasers - Trotec Laser, Inc.An etching created by a YAG laser can be as shallow as a few micrometers. YAG lasers can also be used for boring to a limited extent. In healthcare settings, YAG lasers can be used for wart removal, the creation of small, sterile incisions in soft tissue and for skin resurfacing. Dentists also make wide use of YAG lasers and other laser configurations during porcelain tooth implantation procedures.
Laser is an acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. All laser systems are light amplification and focusing systems that generate light by stimulating the emission of radiation (one form of which is light) from a gain medium. Gain media are solid, liquid or gaseous materials that emit light radiation when stimulated with electricity. Different gain media emit radiation at different intensities and wavelengths, and the properties of the light one gain medium produces may be very different from the properties of another gain medium's emissions.
YAG lasers, for example, are characterized by a much lower wavelength than CO2 lasers; for this reason, a YAG laser will affect a material differently than will a CO2 laser. YAG lasers are doped with a rare-earth material, typically either neodymium or erbium. Doping is the process of combining gain media with additives that make stimulated emission possible. Nd:YAG lasers, which are doped with neodymium, are the most common YAG lasers, though erbium YAG lasers are sometimes more appropriate.
In clinical laser wart removal, for example, erbium YAG lasers were shown to kill the DNA of HPV, an infectious disease, which is sometimes released in vapor produced during wart removal; this can reduce the risk of clinicians becoming infected with the virus. Nd:YAG lasers, however, were not shown to neutralize the virus.
