Laser cladding is one of the critical technologies for additive manufacturing and rapid repair. Improving performance by materials process parameters leading research direction, but defects instability quality in are inevitable. Therefore, it necessary to study which factors related quality. In this paper, a new detection method proposed measure radiation intensity reflected laser, laser scanni...

To improve the biocompatibility of implants, surface medication is a common practice. Depending on the surface medication process, the physical and/or chemical properties of the surface are altered, keeping the bulk properties same. The flexibility and wide application potential of laser as a surface modification tool gives it certain advantages over the traditional physical and chemical proces...

Long-period gratings were fabricated in standard telecommunication fiber (Corning SMF-28) by use of what is believed to be record short-wavelength light from a 157-nm F(2) laser. Strong loss peaks were formed without the need for enhancement techniques such as hydrogen loading. The magnitude of the attenuation peak was sensitive to the single-pulse laser fluence, decreasing with increasing puls...

A microhole array in a common single-mode fiber is fabricated by selective chemical etching of femtosecond-laser-induced fiber Bragg grating (FBG), which has a laser-modified region extending from the fiber core to the cladding-air boundary due to laser self-focusing. The shape and size of the orderly microhole on the fiber surface are controlled via changing conditions of FBG fabrication and c...

We describe novel fiber Raman lasers pumped directly by spectrally combined high power multimode laser diodes at ∼975 nm and emitting at ∼1019 nm. With a commercial multimode graded-index fiber, we reached 20 W of laser output power with a record slope efficiency of 80%. With an in-house double-clad fiber, the beam quality improved to M = 1.9, albeit with lower output power and slope efficiency...

The paper reviews the recent progress on CO2-laser writing of long-period fiber gratings (LPFGs) in different kinds of fibers, including conventional single-mode fiber (SMF), boron-doped SMF, polarization-maintaining fiber, photonic crystal fiber, and polarization-maintaining photonic crystal fiber. In particular, we report the writing dynamics for the understanding of the physical mechanisms i...

Laser cladding is widely used for feature repair and manufacturing of large structural components. However, due to processing parameters thus energy densities variation, defects can form in laser clad materials. There a need understand the relationship between quality. This study therefore investigates critical producing Stellite® 21 (Co-Cr-MoNiC) alloy by cladding. Compared with conventional m...