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Welding plastic with lasers

Nature Photonics volume 3, pages 270–272 (2009)Cite this article

Laser welding of plastics is now a convenient and flexible technique that is proving popular for joining automotive parts and medical equipment as well as consumer products.

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Figure 1: Principle of laser transmission welding of two plastic components.

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Figure 2: Example of high-quality laser welding of transparent plastic parts using the Clearweld technology.

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Figure 3: Scanner-based welding system integrated into a conveyer line.

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  1. Manuel Sieben and Frank Brunnecker are at LPKF Laser and Electronics, Gundstraβe 15, 91056 Erlangen, Germany. m.sieben@lpkf.de; f.brunnecker@lpkf.de,

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Sieben, M., Brunnecker, F. Welding plastic with lasers. Nature Photon 3, 270–272 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2009.62

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