2 minutes to understand the Laser-MicroJet technology | Synova Laser-MicroJet

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The synergy of Light and Water
May 1993 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne a team of researchers achieves the practically lossless coupling of a laser beam and a hair thin water jet. The liquid light conductor becomes reality. It's the birth of a new material processing technology: the laser-microjet.
But what makes the laser-micro jet so unique and what are its advantages?
Water control is the heart of the system. The water is conducted into the coupling system and compressed through a high-quality diamond nozzle. This forms a compact water jet thinner than a human hair. The impulses of a high-power laser are coupled in this low pressure water jet. The total internal reflection of the water guides the impulses almost lost free to the target. The cut edges are absolutely parallel due to the perfect geometry of the laser beam which is defined by the water jet. The water cools the workpiece and prevents the heat damage typically resulting from laser cutting. Melted particles are cleaned away. The workpiece remains free of burrs and debris.
Summary:
Thanks to a hair thin, low-pressure water jet guiding the laser beam, an unsurpassed cutting quality is achieved, without heat damage and deposition. This technique is mainly used to cut thin metal, ultra-hard metal, ceramic or diamond.
The advantages of the LMJ Technology are low consumable costs, low thermal loading of the parts, no chipping and cracking, no heat affected zone, fast cutting rates on brittle and hard materials and cleaner finished surfaces than other laser processes.
For more information, please get in contact with us via [e-mail] or visit www.synova.ch
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The Inventor of Water Jet Laser

[@bannor216]

Fascinating

[@christopherleubner6633]

like a consumable fiber optic saw. works very nice for slicing and dicing thin brittle things that are affected by heat. Also great for processing expensive and toxic stuff like beryllium for x ray windows and laser mirror substrates.

[@manthanpatel45]

Yep, Few Things are consumable

[@wirehyperspace]

Be for hologram 5d diamond growing too

[@dowellaser-Master]

hello，You have an office in Korea，Or is there a machine that can make samples for processing

[@synova8354]

Hello, yes, we have an MMC in Korea. Please get in contact with them directly: www.synova.ch/contact/worldwide.html#synova-korea

[@devashishmandal33]

can we cut alluminium

[@synova8354]

yes, this video ruclips.net/video/A-t70zsSuPQ/видео.html shows 3D cutting of a watch case out of aluminium

[@AtlasReburdened]

The senseless dramatics killed this. What in the hell do volcanos even have to do with this? Because it involves heat, just throw a volcano in the shot? Because it involves water, throw in a geyser?
Utter silliness.

[@Molb0rg]

yep, true

[@dargindarginec9561]

1:09 Here you can see as if the stream of water is hollow. as if it were a water hose, a water tube, and air and a laser beam in the middle of the jet. Is it so?!

[@synova8354]

The Laser MicroJet (LMJ) is a hybrid method of machining, which combines a laser with a "hair-thin" water jet that precisely guides the laser beam by means of total internal reflection.
More detailed information can be found here: www.synova.ch/technology/synova-laser-microjet.html