As the name suggests, reflective metal is a metal that can reflect the wavelength directed to it. Such as copper, brass, bronze, aluminum, gold and silver have the highest reflectivity, and the latter can reflect about 95% of visible light.
This puts forward obvious requirements for the laser cutting process involving heat and light laser beams. Below we explain how to use a fiber laser to cut reflective metals.
Why does laser cutting reflective metal have problems?
As mentioned above, reflective metal can direct the light directed at it back to the source. This is called 'tempering
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