Temporally resolved temperatures and their gradients were measured in the weld pool during power modulated laser welding of copper to aluminum. A spectrometer and two pyrometers were used to measure temperatures with a high sampling rate of 5 kHz. When welding with a modulation frequency of the laser power of 50 Hz the measured temperature signals show periodic oscillations that correspond to the frequency of the laser power modulation.
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