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 High-power fibre laser in shipbuilding, New applications are established in Europe shipyards

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 Ulf Jasnau, Rainer Gaede

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The advantages of solid-state lasers for shipbuilding and for similar industries, which are characterized by the production of large structures, have already been studied since many years. Substantial basics for the usage of such beam sources on shipyards were developed in Rostock. Hence, the first world-wide usage of solid-state lasers in the manufacturing of shipyard was initiated: Since November 2006, a high–power fibre laser with an output of 6 kW was implemented in the Aker shipyard in Turku, Finland, for the welding of sheet metals during panel production with the Laser-GMA-hybrid welding.