The most widely used high power industrial lasers are the Nd: YAG and CO2 lasers. The
chemical oxygen iodine laser (COIL), whose wavelength (1.315 μm) is between that of the …

A three-dimensional computational model of evaporative laser-cutting process has been
developed using a finite element method. Steady heat transfer equation is used to model the …

Laser cutting is nowadays a well-established sheet metal processing method. The cutting of
thick plates (> 15 mm) is, however, still characterized by more narrow process windows …

A computational model for simulation of pulsed laser-cutting process has been developed
using a finite element method. An unsteady heat transfer model is considered that deals with …

The Air Force Phillips Laboratory has developed a small-scale supersonic chemical oxygen-
iodine laser (COIL) test stand (VertiCOIL) to rapidly evaluate emerging potential technology …

In the late 1960's researchers realized that producing a population inversion in a moving
medium could be used to generate high-energy laser beams. The first lasers to scale to the …

A chemical oxygen-iodine laser (COIL), the VertiCOIL device, was transferred from the Air
Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) …

Laser cutting is an attractive alternative to conventional cutting methods due to its many
inherent advantages. However, notwithstanding its promise for processing diverse …

This article focuses on a variety of laser beam machining (LBM) operations of aluminum and
its alloys, namely, laser cutting, laser drilling, laser milling, laser turning, laser grooving …

The chemical oxygen-iodine laser (COIL) is a high power, fiber deliverable tool, which can
be used for a number of different industrial applications. Commercialization issues are …