Additive Manufacturing (AM) has revolutionized the manufacturing industry in several
directions. Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF), a powder bed fusion AM process, has been …

Laser additive manufacturing (AM) technology is widely applied in manufacturing critical
components (eg, rocket fuel nozzles, satellite antenna mounts and human implants, etc.) in …

New generation of multi-core fiber laser sources provide in-source dynamic beam shaping.
Such sources can switch between Gaussian and ring beams, providing new irradiance …

A major factor slowing down the establishment of additive manufacturing processes as
production processes is insufficient reproducibility and productivity. Therefore, this work …

One of the factors limiting the use of additive manufacturing, particularly powder bed
processes, is their low productivity. An approach to increasing laser powder bed fusion …

Over the last decade, optical 3D printing has proved itself to be a flexible and capable
approach in fabricating an increasing variety of functional structures. One of the main …

The commonly used Gaussian intensity distribution during the laser-based processing of
metals can negatively affect melt pool stability, which might lead to defects such as porosity …

In laser-based powder bed fusion of metals (PBF-LB/M), the laser beam shape significantly
influences the temperature distribution and melt pool dimensions. Recent advances in beam …

Laser‐powder bed fusion (L‐PBF) is extensively adopted in the aerospace and automobile
industries for producing metallic components. The L‐PBF process involves rapid melting …

Active fibre lasers are widely used in the industry for different manufacturing applications
ranging from cutting, to welding and additive manufacturing. The recent introduction of the …