With the advent of handheld high-power lasers for welding and cleaning applications, the implications on laser safety become increasingly relevant, as exposure to high-power laser radiation can be harmful and cause irreversible injury. Laser safety is thus a highly regulated but often overlooked aspect of industrial laser applications.

Broadly, this seminar will address topics related to lasers and their industrial applications in materials processing. Furthermore, it adds the present topic of laser safety that need to be considered whenever high-power lasers are applied. The program takes a two-step approach, initially introducing the basic application scenarios for high-power lasers and the technologies behind these.

The second part considers the safety aspects of high-power lasers and presents a number of actual industrial applications of high-power lasers in production environments, by experts from the Danish Industry. The aim is to bring together players and experts from both academia and industries to tackle various issues.

This seminar is organized by our production steering group members Morten Kristiansen, AAU and Michel Honoré, Force Technology.