Ultrafast laser features high precision machining and ultrashort pulse and can focus the laser light on very tiny areas without damaging the surrounding materials. This makes it very ideal in industrial micromachining, scientific research, precision medical treatment, aerospace, additive manufacturing and so on.
Nowadays, ultrafast laser only accounts for less than 20% of the market share in the whole laser market and it has great development potential. As the technology of ultrafast laser continues to develop and become mature, global ultrafast laser is expected to have rapid development with promising future.
Laser is one of the greatest inventions in the 21st century. According to operation mode, laser can be divided into continuous-wave laser and pulsed laser. Ultrafast laser is the shortest pulsed laser.
Ultrafast laser has ultrashort pulse duration wit ultrahigh instantaneous power and can focus the laser light on very tiny area without being affected by pulse repetition rate and average power. What’s more, the laser beam quality of ultrafast laser is super stable. The current ultrafast laser includes picosecond laser, femtosecond laser and nanosecond laser.
In 2019, the global ultrafast laser market value was 1.6 billion USD and in 2020, the number rose to 1.8 billion USD. And in 2021, this number will continue to grow.
Ultrafast laser is doing a good job in industrial micromachining, scientific research, precision medical treatment, aerospace, additive manufacturing and so on.
In terms of industrial micromachining, picosecond and femtosecond laser have already had mass application and the application direction is more clear. Nowadays, ultrafast laser focuses its application in hard brittle material processing, such as smart phone LCD screen cutting, smart phone camera sapphire cover cutting, smart phone camera glass cover cutting, high performance FPC cutting, OLED cutting & drilling, PERC solar power battery processing and so on.
In terms of precision medical treatment, ultrafast laser can replace surgery knife to do the ultra-precise operation and medical cosmetology.
In terms of aerospace, since ultrafast laser features high efficiency, low energy consumption, high performance and intelligence, it is used to process high performance and ultrahigh precision parts of the aircraft.
With ultrafast laser technology becoming more and more mature and its applications continuing to grow, there is still a big development potential for it. It is expected that in 2021, the global ultrafast laser market scale will increase by 15% and its development will be faster than the whole laser market. In 2026, the global ultrafast laser market scale is expected to be around 5.4 billion USD.
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