Abstract
Single-mode fiber lasers have many advantages over conventional solid-state lasers, which include high beam quality, no need for cooling, high conversion efficiency, compactness, long life time and so on, attracting attention as an industrial tool for materials processing due to rapid increase in the output power. Present article overviews recent status of the applications of high-power single-mode fiber laser to laser materials processing including microwelding and micromachining.
