Laser Cutting  [ Return towards  Applications  ]

Main applications are cutting carbon steels, e.g. in the automotive industry or their suppliers, and stainless steel components typically used in the food industry.

This laser cutting process can be used on any material - wood, metals, fabrics or PE plastics.
The laser beam is produced by an electrical discharge inside a cavity filled with a gaseous medium containing mainly nitrogen, carbon dioxide and helium. Certain applications use a solid state laser, where the laser beam is generated by an excitation of a YAG solid state barre.

AIR LIQUIDE can provide you with optimized and innovative gas installations and gas equipment to meet all your flowrate and pressure needs for CO2 lasing gas: LASAL™ 1, 2, 4 (N2, CO2, He, laser grade) or one of the lasing mixes from the LASAL™ range.

Recommanded cutting gas :

Carbon steel : LASAL™ 2003
Stainless steel aluminum : LASAL™ 2001
Beam purging : FLOXAL™ or Nitrogen

Assisting gas for laser cutting