Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for laser processing. A method includes providing a laser beam transparent to a workpiece. A cover, having a surface quality better than the workpiece's surface, is provided and spaced apart from the workpiece's surface. A fluid is provided between and in contact with the cover and the workpiece's surface. A laser beam is directed through the cover and fluid to the workpiece. An apparatus includes a cover spaced apart from a workpiece's surface and including a surface quality better than the workpiece's surface, a fluid dispenser for introducing fluid between and in contact with the cover and the workpiece's surface, and a laser system that directs a laser beam through the cover and fluid to the workpiece.

Articles with at least one finished edge and methods and systems for forming the same are disclosed. A method of forming a glass article having at least one finished edge includes heating a substrate to a preparation temperature, the substrate having at least one unfinished edge, applying a laser to the at least one unfinished edge of the substrate, the laser causing a temperature of the at least one unfinished edge to increase from the preparation temperature to a finishing temperature, and reducing a power of the laser over a time period of at least about 10 seconds until the laser is deactivated, resulting in the glass article comprising the at least one finished edge.

A method produces a component assembly, in which a first component and a second component are welded together, forming a front fillet weld. To reduce susceptibility to corrosion, a connection region to be smoothed, which includes the front fillet weld and component sections adjacent thereto on both sides, is melted, at least on the surface, such that the surface in the smoothed region extends continuously and the transition to adjacent unsmoothed regions is edge-free, and impurities are eliminated.

Disclosed is a laminated glass structure with one or more inner glass layers with at least one in tension and two outer glass layers in compression wherein one or both of the outer layers at least partially wrap around the one or more inner layers at one or more of the edges of the laminated glass structure. Also disclosed is a process for forming a laminated glass structure, comprising providing a laminated glass structure, removing at least some glass from at least one the edges of the structure to produce a concavity in at the at least one edge and applying heat to the at least one edge.

The present application provides a double-beam laser polishing device and a double-beam laser polishing method for an aluminum alloy, which includes a frame; a rotary workbench and an optical path system, which are arranged on the frame. The optical path system includes: a first fiber laser, a second fiber laser, a first three-dimensional galvanometer, and a second three-dimensional galvanometer. The first three-dimensional galvanometer is connected with the first fiber laser through an optical fiber, and the second three-dimensional galvanometer is connected with the second fiber laser through an optical fiber. The first three-dimensional galvanometer and the second three-dimensional galvanometer are arranged side by side above the rotary workbench in a horizontal direction.

A method for manufacturing an annular glass plate that has an outer circumferential edge surface, an inner circumferential edge surface, and a thickness not larger than 0.6 mm includes processing for manufacturing an annular glass plate by irradiating each of the outer circumferential edge surface and the inner circumferential edge surface of an annular glass blank with a laser beam to melt the outer circumferential edge surface and the inner circumferential edge surface and form molten surfaces such that the molten surfaces in the outer circumferential edge surface and the inner circumferential edge surface each have an arithmetic average surface roughness Ra not larger than 0.1 m, and the surface roughness of the molten surface in the inner circumferential edge surface becomes larger than the surface roughness of the molten surface in the outer circumferential edge surface.

Provided is a laser shock peening method for obtaining a large-area uniform surface morphology. Using the relationship between the thickness of an absorption layer and a plastic deformation due to the laser shock peening and using a grid-shaped absorption layer (5) having a staggered distribution in thickness in cooperation with a two-layer interlaced laser shock processing method significantly reduce the height difference between micro-protrusions (10) and micro-pits (12) produced by an impact of a square light spot, and effectively reduce the roughness of the workpiece surface such that a large-area uniform surface morphology is formed on the workpiece surface.

Proposed is a method of processing a superfine blade edge using a femtosecond laser, the method including primarily grinding a blade edge portion by using a grinding wheel, the blade edge being primarily ground in a direction vertical to a rotational direction of the grinding wheel; and secondarily grinding at least a part of the blade edge portion by emitting a femtosecond laser to the ground blade edge portion in a lengthwise direction, wherein the secondarily grinding includes: oscillating the femtosecond laser; modifying the energy distribution of the femtosecond laser; aligning a central portion of the energy distribution of the femtosecond laser to an end portion of the blade edge portion; changing an advancing direction of the femtosecond laser; and emitting the femtosecond laser to the blade edge portion while moving, in the lengthwise direction of the blade, a stage on which the blade is placed.

The invention discloses a method for preparing an anticorrosive surface layer of a metal material in a marine environment by laser, which belongs to the technical field of laser processing. First, the laser cladding method is used to prepare a cladding surface layer on the surface of the metal material that is not easy to undergo chemical substitution reaction with the chlorides (NaCl, MgCl.sub.2 , CaCl.sub.2 etc.) in the seawater. Then, on the surface of the cladding surface layer, ultrafast laser processing is used to form a surface layer with a wetting angle (and water) greater than 90 degrees and with hydrophobic characteristics.

A system for finishing a surface of a workpiece. The system includes a laser unit configured to emit a laser radiation. The system further includes an attenuator disposed within the laser unit and configured to adjust optical parameters of the laser radiation. The system further includes a cavitation chamber storing a liquid medium. The workpiece is mounted within the cavitation chamber and is in contact with the liquid medium. The system further includes at least one lens configured to focus at least a portion of the laser radiation and transmit at least one laser beam towards the workpiece.