A baffled optical waveguide has a body shaped to partially or wholly surround a part or parts being processed by being illuminated with light. The body has optical baffles therein that define light channels through which the light travels as it transits the baffled optical waveguide. Outlets of the light channels are adjacent an opening in the body which receives an area or areas of the parts or parts being processed. Each light channel homogenizes the light as it transits through that light channel. The optical baffles that define the light channels keep light from diverging in the baffled optical waveguide as it transits through the light channels. In an aspect, a part (or parts) is processed by illuminating it with light via the baffled optical waveguide.

An optical communication cable and related systems and methods are provided. The optical cable includes a plurality of wrapped core elements, and the outer surfaces of adjacent wrapped core elements are joined together by discrete bond sections. The discrete bonds sections may be structures such as laser welds, ultrasonic welds, or adhesive material. The discrete bonds hold the wrapped core elements together in the wrapped pattern, such as an SZ stranding pattern.

A flexure hinge with two material segments connected to each other via a material tapering to a thin spot which defines a pivot axis between the two material segments. The material segments are provided with recesses such that the strength existing in the thin spot with respect to normal stresses or bending stresses is kept largely constant within a distance from the thin spot.

A method of forming an optical surface on an end portion of an optical fiber comprises inserting the optical fiber through a ferrule bore of a ferrule so that the end portion extends past an end face on the ferrule. At least one laser beam is emitted from at least one laser and directed to the end face of the ferrule. The at least one laser beam is shaped into an ellipse and comprises at least 90 percent linearly-polarized light incident on the end face of the ferrule as S-polarized light. The at least one laser is operated so that the S-polarized light reflects off the end face of the ferrule and cleaves the end portion of the optical fiber.

A laser cladding method includes directing a filler material in a pulverulent form along a respective working trajectory onto each respective surface of two mutually opposite surfaces of a component, and heating the filler material and the component by directing a respective laser beam along the respective working trajectory so that the filler material binds to the component as the filler material meets the respective surface, thereby producing coating layers on the two mutually opposite surfaces at least partly at a same time.

An aspect of the invention provides a device, comprising: a laser machining head configured to deflect laser radiation onto an optical system comprising a substrate, the device being configured to carry out a method for separating the substrate using the optical system, the optical system being configured to provide the laser radiation, a thickness of the substrate not exceeding 2 mm in a region of a separating line, the method comprising: applying pulsed laser radiation having a pulse duration (t) to a substrate material of the substrate using the optical system, the substrate material being transparent at least in part to a laser wavelength of the pulsed laser radiation, the pulsed laser radiation being focused using the optical system at an original focal depth (f1), an intensity of the pulsed laser radiation leading to a modification of the substrate along a beam axis (Z) of the pulsed laser radiation.

A double-directional machining laser machine tool includes a focused laser source, a lifting platform, a motion platform, a rotating platform, a height sensor, a vision module, and a control device. The control device drives, according to a distance detected by the height sensor, the lifting platform to lift the focused laser source up or down, and drives, according to an image, the motion platform to displace the bearing table, so as to enable a first laser beam outputted by the focused laser source forms a first recessed hole at a predetermined position on a first surface of a workpiece. The control device drives the rotating platform to rotate the workpiece, so as to enable the first laser beam forms a second recessed hole on a second surface of the workpiece, and the first recessed hole is in communication with the second recessed hole, so as to form a deep hole.

A vehicle reinforcement beam is roll formed from a metal sheet to provide a multi-tubular reinforcement beam that includes two adjacent tubular sections that share a common center wall. The outer sections the metal sheet extend from opposing ends of the common center wall and are formed to enclose the adjacent tubular sections. An edge portion of the metal sheet that is bent to have a bend radius of about 3-9 mm, where the edge portions attach in abutting and continuous contact with the common center wall to form crevices between the adjacent tubular sections along the first and second faces. A weld is formed in each of the crevices to define crevice ribs in general alignment with and at each of the opposing first and second ends of the common center wall that are configured to improve bending strength and torsional strength of the reinforcement beam.

A positive electrode tab and negative electrode tab of a battery pack are configured by stacking a plurality of single cells each of which has positive electrode tab and negative electrode tab drawn outward and formed of metals different from each other in kind. In a welding method, clad material is disposed between positive electrode tab of second single cell and negative electrode tab of first single cell. Next, with a laser welder, focal point is aimed at interface between negative electrode tab and clad material, and laser is applied thereto from the side of negative electrode tab. Then, focal point is aimed at interface between positive electrode tab and clad material, and laser is applied thereto from the side of positive electrode tab.

The invention provides a preparation method of a low temperature poly-silicon thin film, a preparation method of a low temperature poly-silicon thin film transistor, and a laser crystallization apparatus, and belongs to the technical field of display. The preparation method of a low temperature poly-silicon thin film of the invention comprises: forming an amorphous silicon thin film on a transparent substrate; and performing laser annealing on said amorphous silicon thin film from a side of said amorphous silicon thin film departing from said substrate, and performing laser irradiation from a side of said substrate departing from said amorphous silicon thin film, to form a low temperature poly-silicon thin film. The preparation method of a low temperature poly-silicon thin film of the invention may not only perform laser annealing on an amorphous silicon thin film form a side of the amorphous silicon thin film departing from the substrate, but also perform laser irradiation from a side of the substrate departing from the amorphous silicon thin film, and the temperature of the amorphous silicon thin film can be retained by performing laser irradiation from a side of the substrate departing from the amorphous silicon thin film. In this way, the crystallization period of poly-silicon may be elongated, and it is possible to obtain crystal grains with larger sizes, to increase carrier mobility, and to reduce drain current.