Laser Technologies for Future Manufacturing

面向未来制造的激光技术

• 批准号: EP/P027644/1
• 负责人: Michalis Zervas
• 金额: $ 225.3万
• 依托单位: University of Southampton
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2017 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FP027644%2F1
• 关键词: Laser; Technologies; Future; Manufacturing

Modern manufacturing has been revolutionised by photonics. Lasers are central to this revolution, as they continue to transform the fast-changing manufacturing landscape. Photonics manufacturing represents an industry worth £10.5bn per annum to the UK economy, growing at about 8.5% annually and directly employing more than 70,000 people. UK Photonics exports are currently the 4th largest by value of any UK manufacturing sector, following automotive, aerospace and machinery exports. More importantly, UK Photonics exports more than 75% of its output relative to the UK manufacturing average of only 34%. Laser technology in particular underpins a number of leading UK industries in the aerospace, automotive, electronics, pharmaceuticals and healthcare engineering sectors. Over four decades, the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton has maintained a position at the forefront of photonics research. Its long and well-established track record in fibres, lasers, waveguides, devices, and optoelectronic materials has fostered innovation, enterprise, and cross-boundary multi-disciplinary activities. Advanced fibres and laser sub-systems, manufactured in Southampton by companies spun-out from the Optoelectronics Research Centre, are exported worldwide.Working closely with UK photonics industry, our interconnected and highly synergetic group will optimally combine different laser technologies into hybrid platforms for miniaturised, efficient, low-cost, agile and reconfigurable smart laser systems with software-driven performance. This is only possible because of the controllable, stable and robust, all-solid state nature of guided-wave lasers. A smart laser looks like its electronic equivalent - a single small sealed maintenance-free enclosure with a fully controlled output that is responsive to changes in the workpiece. The laser knows what material it is processing, how the process is developing and when it is finished. It is able to adapt to changes in the materials, their shape, reflectivity, thickness and orientation. This leads to new tools that enable innovative manufacturing processes that are critical in increasing competitiveness in important manufacturing sectors. Finally, the advanced laser technologies developed within this platform are expected to have a wider impact outside the manufacturing arena, in areas such as sensing, healthcare, and the medical sectors, as well as homeland security helping to establish an important laser sovereign capability.

光子学给现代制造业带来了革命性的变化。激光是这场革命的核心，因为它们继续改变着快速变化的制造业格局。光电子制造业对英国经济来说是一个每年价值105亿英镑的行业，每年以约8.5%的速度增长，直接雇用超过7万人。按价值计算，英国光电子出口额目前在英国制造业中排名第四，仅次于汽车、航空航天和机械出口。更重要的是，英国光电子公司75%以上的产出用于出口，而英国制造业的平均水平仅为34%。激光技术尤其支撑着英国航空航天、汽车、电子、制药和医疗保健工程领域的许多领先行业。四十多年来，南安普顿大学的光电子研究中心一直处于光子学研究的前沿。其在光纤、激光、波导、器件和光电材料方面的长期和良好的记录促进了创新、企业和跨境多学科活动。先进的光纤和激光子系统由光电研究中心剥离出来的公司在南安普敦制造，出口到世界各地。与英国光电子行业密切合作，我们互联且高度协同的团队将以最佳方式将不同的激光技术结合到混合平台中，以实现小型化、高效、低成本、灵活和可重新配置的软件驱动性能的智能激光系统。这只可能是因为导波激光器的可控性、稳定性和健壮性以及全固态的特性。智能激光器看起来就像它的电子产品--一个单独的、密封的、免维护的小外壳，具有完全可控的输出，可以对工件的变化做出反应。激光知道它在加工什么材料，过程是如何发展的，什么时候完成。它能够适应材料、形状、反射率、厚度和取向的变化。这导致了能够实现创新制造工艺的新工具，这些工艺对于提高重要制造业部门的竞争力至关重要。最后，在该平台内开发的先进激光技术预计将在制造领域以外的领域产生更广泛的影响，如传感、医疗保健和医疗部门，以及有助于建立重要的激光主权能力的国土安全。

项目成果

3D printed Er-doped silica fibre by Direct Ink Writing

通过直接墨水书写 3D 打印掺铒石英光纤

• DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/202024320002
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: EPJ Web of Conferences
• 作者: Camacho Rosales A

Radially polarized 33 W emission from a double-pass Ho:YAG thin-slab amplifier

来自双通 Ho:YAG 薄板放大器的径向偏振 33 W 发射

• DOI: 10.1364/josab.465778
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Journal of the Optical Society of America B
• 作者: Barber M

Self-Healing Properties of Fibre Laser Petal-like Beams

光纤激光花瓣状光束的自愈特性

• DOI: 10.1109/cleo/europe-eqec52157.2021.9541711
• 发表时间: 2021
• 作者: Chan J

Predictive visualization of fiber laser cutting topography via deep learning with image inpainting

• DOI: 10.2351/7.0000957
• 发表时间: 2023-06
• 期刊: Journal of Laser Applications
• 影响因子: 2.1
• 作者: Alex Courtier;M. Praeger;J. Grant-Jacob;Christophe Codemard;Paul Harrison;M. Zervas;B. Mills

All-fiber bandwidth tunable filter for high power fiber lasers

适用于高功率光纤激光器的全光纤带宽可调谐滤波器

• DOI: 10.1117/12.2545640
• 发表时间: 2020
• 作者: Chan J