Brian Victor

Director of Industrial Applications, nLIGHT

[email protected]https://www.nlight.net

Brian Victor is Director of Industrial Applications at nLIGHT (Vancouver, WA).

Industrial Laser Solutions

Laser beam shaping for battery welding

Tim Morris

Sept. 22, 2021

Single-mode and ring beam welding examples for copper and aluminum battery applications are compared.

Industrial Laser Solutions

Is beam shaping the future of laser welding?

Brian Victor

Sept. 1, 2019

All-optical-fiber technology provides on-the-fly beam shaping for a variety of industrial welding processes, eliminating bulk optics and laser head changes for improved productivity...

$FIGURE 1. Shown at left is the fiber cross-section (top) and refractive index profile (bottom) for a feeding fiber with three guiding regions. Simulations (right) show the beam profile coupled into the guiding regions for different perturbation conditions. The beam homogenizes azimuthally as it propagates in the fiber.$

Lasers & Sources

High-power Fiber Lasers: Fiber laser has all-fiber tunable beam quality

Dahv Kliner

April 1, 2019

A newly developed fiber laser provides real-time tunability of beam characteristics directly from the laser output fiber using an all-fiber mechanism.