Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Lasertechnik e.V.

This conference will explore high power lasers, how they are delivered to the work piece, how they and the process are monitored, and their uses in the world of industrial materials processing. Papers are solicited on a wide range of topics related to the conference title, including but not limited to the following:

Lasers and Laser Systems for Materials Processing:
- disk
- fiber
- direct diode
- CO2.

Beam Delivery:
- welding heads and accessories
- scanning heads
- cutting heads and accessories
- LMD heads and accessories
- Beam shaping methods
- thermal lensing and optics design approaches
- new optical elements and systems for lasers
- applications with specific laser beam geometries.

Diagnostics:
- laser-beam characterization and measurement of laser-beam parameters
- laser material interaction
- process monitoring
- vision systems and tracking
- destructive and non-destructive quality testing methods
- surface diagnostics
- coupling experiments and simulations
- high speed imaging
- particulate diagnostics
- systems considerations.

Applications:
- welding
- remote welding
- brazing / soldering
- hybrid welding
- laser metal deposition
- hardening
- cutting
- remote cutting
- drilling
- cleaning and structuring
- rapid prototyping and manufacturing.