A laser light irradiation device includes: a laser light source; a spatial light modulator including a display unit, the spatial light modulator modulating the laser light in accordance with a phase pattern displayed on the display unit; a beam diameter conversion mechanism arranged on an optical path of the laser light between the laser light source and the spatial light modulator, the beam diameter conversion mechanism enlarging or reducing the beam diameter of the laser light; a lens insertion and removal mechanism including a lens configured to vary the beam diameter of the laser light, the lens insertion and removal mechanism being enabled to insert/remove the lens in/from the optical path; and a controller configured to control the phase pattern to be displayed. The controller displays the phase pattern configured to correct a wavefront aberration caused by insertion or removal of the lens.

The present laser processing monitoring device is a monitoring device of a laser processing machine that performs desired laser processing by irradiating a given metal-based workpiece with a laser beam LB and melting the workpiece by means of laser energy, and includes a laser oscillator, a laser power supply, a controller, a guide beam generation unit, delivery optical fibers, a head (an emission unit and a sensor unit, an operation panel, and a monitoring unit. The monitoring unit is a laser monitoring device in the present embodiment, and is configured to mainly include the controller, the operation panel, a sensor signal processing unit, the sensor unit, and the like.

Disclosed is a processing method for a workpiece. The processing method includes a holding step of holding the workpiece on a holding table, a grinding step of grinding the workpiece that is held on the holding table at and around its center by a grinding wheel, so that a recess portion is formed at and around the center of the workpiece and an annular projection portion is formed surrounding the recess portion at and along an outer periphery of the workpiece, and a fusion step of applying a laser beam to a surface of the workpiece, the surface having been ground in the grinding step, so that the ground surface is fused. A processing apparatus for a workpiece is also disclosed.

A method for preparing a cross-dimension micro-nano structure array includes: S1. providing a workpiece immersed in the electrolyte as the first electrode, providing a trimming wire electrode as the second electrode and setting it above the workpiece, providing an interference beam adjuster and outputting multi-beam laser interference to irradiate the surface of the workpiece; S2. The power supply between the first electrode and the second electrode forms a loop, and drives the trimming wire electrode to reciprocate relative to the workpiece, and the workpiece undergoes electrochemical dissolution or electrochemical deposition at the corresponding position of the trimming wire electrode, and form a micro-nano structure array without a mask, and solves the problem of low output power of the existing ultrashort pulse power supply, improves the processing accuracy of the micro-nano structure array, does not require electrolyte for high-speed flow, and improves system safety and reduce the cost.

A system and a method for laser marking a graphic on an object. The system includes: a laser system for producing a laser output; element(s) for moving the laser output on a surface of an object; a controller for controlling the laser system and the moving element(s), and for processing control information including a plurality of vectors, where for each vector the controller is configured to set a vector speed and a vector laser power according to a marking intensity value of the corresponding vector group such that at least two vectors within one of the vector groups have with respect to each other different vector speeds and vector laser powers, and a laser output's speed that is set according to the at least two vectors remains different than zero when the laser output travels along two trajectory parts which correspond to the at least two vectors.

A method and arrangement for the texturing of a moving steel strip wherein a texture is applied to a surface of a moving steel strip by ablation by means of a single laser beam or a plurality of laser beams directed at the surface of the moving steel strip and wherein a liquid is supplied on the moving steel strip over a surface area on the moving steel strip that covers the working area of the single laser beam or the plurality of laser beams on the moving steel strip.

A processing method of a wafer in which a modified layer is formed inside the wafer. In the processing method, irradiation with a first laser beam is executed from a back surface side of the wafer and the modified layer is formed inside the wafer. Then, irradiation with a second laser beam is executed with the focal point thereof positioned to the inside or the front surface of the wafer and reflected light is imaged by an imaging unit. Furthermore, a processing state of the wafer is determined on the basis of a taken image. The second laser beam is shaped in such a manner that a sectional shape thereof in a surface perpendicular to a traveling direction thereof becomes asymmetric across the modified layer.

A method for manufacturing structural steel components with local reinforcement is provided. The method comprises selecting at least a zone of the component to be reinforced, providing a steel blank and deforming the blank in a press tool to form a product, wherein the blank and/or the product comprises a groove in the zone to be reinforced, the groove comprising an inner surface and an outer surface. The method further comprises depositing a reinforcement material on the inner surface of groove and locally heating the reinforcement material and the groove of the steel blank or product, to mix the melted reinforcement material with the melted portion of the steel blank or product.

A method of monitoring an additive manufacturing process in which one or more energy beams are used to selectively fuse a powder to form a workpiece, in the presence of one or more plumes generated by interaction of the one or more energy beams with the powder. The method includes using at least one sensor to generate at least one signal representative of a trajectory of one or more of the plumes.

A method for creating at least one recess, in particular an aperture, in a transparent or transmissive material, includes: selectively modifying the material along a beam axis by electromagnetic radiation; and creating the at least one recess by one or more etching steps, using different etching rates in a modified region and in non-modified regions. The electromagnetic radiation produces modifications having different characteristics in the material along the beam axis such that the etching process in the material is heterogeneous and the etching rates differ from one another in regions modified with different characteristics under unchanged etching conditions.