The new OPTECH CONSULTING market report

Micro and Low Power Laser Materials Processing - Markets for Lasers and Laser Systems

is now available.

Publication date: 2nd January 2012.

The report covers lasers with an average power of 1kW and below, as well as the laser systems using these lasers.

Pages: 125

Years covered: 2011 (base year of market data), 2020 (forecast)

Products covered:

• Low power lasers (less than 1kW of average power; including lasers > 1kW used for semiconductor and flat panel display processing)
• Laser materials processing systems, based on low power lasers, for the applications below

Lasers covered:

• bulk solid state lasers, fiber lasers, excimer lasers, CO2 lasers; with breakout by laser specs (cw, long pulse, Q-switched, ultrashort pulsed; average power; other parameters where appropriate) for each laser type

Application areas covered:

• Manufacturing of semiconductors, flat panel displays, solar cells, printed circuit boars, hybrid circuits; with breakout of single applications for each application area
• Marking, coding, desktop marking/engraving/cutting
• Precision cutting, spot and seam welding, drilling, generative / build-up laser processes, plastics welding, soldering, packaging industry applications, cleaning, etc.

Market data provided:

• Global market by value, by units
• Laser system markets by application area and application
• Laser source markets by application area, application, laser type, and laser specs
• End user markets by geography
• Market shares by type of laser

Please e-mail us for the table of contents, price and ordering information.

The previous report

Laser Materials Processing

is currently not updated.

The report, first published in 1993, has been last updated in 2007.

All market segments covered by the former Laser Materials Processing report are now covered by one of the following two reports:

• Lasers for Low Power and Micro Materials Processing
  published January 2012; see above
• High Power Lasers in Materials Processing
  published November 2011, please see here