A 1-kilowatt, high brightness blue laser from NUBURU will target large, fast-growing markets, including EV battery production, metal 3D printing, and consumer electronics markets, the company said
CENTENNIAL, Colo.— A new high-brightness, industrial blue laser developed by NUBURU, Inc., offers increased laser power that is said to enable higher speed, micron-level precision, and repeatable high-quality welds. All of these attributes are critical to meeting the needs of commercial markets like EV battery welding and 3D printing, the company said in a release.
Nuburu CEO and Co-founder Mark Zediker, Ph.D., said the company is excited about the NUBURU BL-1000-F, which is part of the company’s BL series of products. The BL-1000-F
increases laser power from 250 watts to 1000 watts.
“Our customer feedback has indicated that our BL-1000-F will provide a compelling solution that combines both speed and weld quality, which will dramatically improve the manufacturing capabilities of our customers in our primary markets: welding, metal additive 3D printing, and consumer electronics,” Zediker said in the release.
According to NUBURU, the BL-1000-F can deliver next generation capabilities because it can harness the intrinsically higher absorption of metals to blue light. When combined with a scanner, the BL-1000-F enables critical benefits, such as high speed and conduction mode weld precision. It also enables the quality and process stability requirements that are critical to customers and lower their total cost of ownership, the company said.
The higher power delivered by the BL-1000-F enables a higher quality laser beam. This improvement allows the BL-1000-F to more efficiently weld and process metals that are highly reflective for traditional IR lasers, as well as other metals that are used extensively in the manufacturing of EV batteries and 3D metal printing, the company said.
NUBURI said it develops and manufactures industrial blue lasers that leverage fundamental physics and their high-brightness, high-power design to produce faster, higher quality welds and parts than current lasers can provide in laser welding and additive manufacturing of copper, gold, aluminum, and other industrial metals. The company’s industrial blue lasers are said to produce welds with minimal or no defects, at rates up to eight times faster than the traditional approaches, with the flexibility inherent to laser processing.