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Laser Institute of America

Laser Institute of America (LIA), founded in 1968, is the professional society for laser applications and safety. Our mission is to foster lasers, laser applications, and laser safety worldwide. LIA cultivates innovation, ingenuity and inspiration to promote the continued growth and safe use of laser applications.

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Research Article

| November 29 2023

Process development for laser powder bed fusion of GRCop-42 using a 515 nm laser source

Samira Gruber, Lukas Stepien et al.

Copper is widely used in high heat flux and electrical applications because of its excellent electrical and thermal conductivity properties. Alloying elements such as chromium or nickel are added to ...

Research Article

| November 28 2023

Investigation of NS-single-point laser ablation of bronze under different incidence angles and pulses

Esmaeil Ghadiri Zahrani, Bahman Azarhoushang

A fundamental understanding of ablation in different incidence angles is indispensable to expand the result to volume ablation where nonperpendicular irradiation exists. So far, no study with this ...

Research Article

| November 27 2023

Investigation of influence of oscillation amplitude on keyhole and molten pool morphologies during oscillating laser stake welding of dissimilar materials T-joints

Yuewei Ai, Jiabao Liu et al.

The morphologies of the keyhole and molten pool during the laser welding process are highly related to weld formation process, which affects the weld quality further. To investigate the influence of ...

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