SLT 2016: Highlighting Numerous Breakthroughs

摘要

The ever-growing needs of industrial materials processing continue to initiate exciting progress in the field of laser technology, which in return opens up more and more new prospects in a wide range of highly productive applications for manufacturing. In this context, the latest progress in the field of ultrafast laser sources and the significant advances in the understanding of the fundamentals of laser-matter interactions now lead to the conclusion that new approaches are needed in system technology in order to be able to exploit the foreseeable laser powers in manufacturing applications with respect to high productivity and quality.