November 6, 2022 6:31 AM EST
Both CO2 and fiber laser cutting machines can cut metal, but they differ in their practical application. If you are working with stainless steel, aluminium, brass or copper, fibre laser technology is the fastest and most economical, regardless of thickness. High-power fibre laser cutting machines cut up to five times faster than conventional CO2 laser cutting machines and use half the operating costs. The fibre laser cutting machine does not require any warm-up time - with CO2 lasers, it usually takes around 10 minutes per start-up. There is no optical path maintenance for fibre laser cutting machines, such as mirror or lens cleaning, bellows inspection and beam alignment. For CO2 lasers, this can consume another 4 or 5 hours per week.
A fibre laser has a completely sealed fibre optic beam path both at the power supply and at the fibre optic that is delivered to the cutting head. The beam is not contaminated by the beam path as is the case with CO2 lasers.
The fibre beam path maintains a consistent nozzle beam centre.
As the integrity of the fibre beam remains consistent from day to day, so do the cutting parameters, requiring far less adjustment than with CO2 lasers.
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