Laser Marking Equipment

Laser marking equipment is a valuable designing tool for many business industries as well as in medical, military and aerospace. This marking equipment typically uses a high powered laser to scribe various surfaces with designs from as simple as text and symbols to the most intricate images, patterns, and graduations. The materials that can be mark or scribe by laser are glass, ceramics, acrylic, metal, steel and other composite materials.

Laser marking equipment is likewise used to create lines and characters of various fonts on glass, ceramics, woods, semiconductors and many other material surfaces. On the other hand the term laser engraving is another laser marking method that is used in polymers and specialized metal alloy surfaces.

Laser marking equipment is also used to mark integrated dies, semiconductor wafers, circuit chips, and printed circuit boards. The scribing machine is a high-resolution marking process where the width of scribed lines is set to a specific tolerance. Each line consists of a series of small, closely spaced holes which are produced by laser energy pulses.

Majority of laser marking equipment utilizes diode lasers, neodymium doped, carbon dioxide lasers or yttrium aluminum garnet lasers. These laser marking machines have varied specifications when it comes to wavelength, beam divergence, beam size, average power, operating current range, and operating temperature ranges. On the other hand, the specifications of pulsed laser marking equipment vary in energy, pulse length (time measurement) and repetition rate (the number of pulses per second).

So when you are planning to buy a laser marking equipment for your business, do not forget to consider the above specifications along with the surface materials that you want to be laser marked or engraved. The best place to shop for this kind of laser machine is the internet as you can readily access the specifications of the machines and their intended uses.