Silicon

Silicon optics with low weight

Silicon optics

As a brittle, hard material with many areas of application, high-purity monocrystalline silicon is used in various areas of industry and science. These include highly sophisticated components such as lenses, prisms or mirrors, as used in optoelectronics and laser technology. In scanner systems, silicon mirrors are used to deflect the laser beam in order to enable high-precision cutting or marking.

Laser beam cutting or marking with pulsed or continuously emitting high-power lasers is a tried and tested process in industrial practice today. High process reliability and constant performance are required to achieve the desired high-precision results in manufacturing processes and micro material processing: our high-power CO2 coatings and optics are designed to meet these high production challenges in an industrial environment.

High resistance, highest optical properties
Dielectric coatings for CO2 lasers
With correct cooling and installation, laser powers of up to several kW can be controlled
Ideal for laser scanners
Wide range of applications

Silicon Laser mirrors for material processing

In industrial production, laser cutting is a process that can be used to produce even very complex components with dimensional accuracy, a precise kerf and cut quality, as well as low thermal influence. There are numerous areas of application for automated, non-contact processing of different materials. These include unalloyed, low-alloy, galvanised or coated structural and tool steel, high-alloy steels, AI or AI alloys, plastics (acrylic glass), rubber, paper, wood or quartz glass. Pleiger Laseroptik supplies high-quality mirrors and focussing lenses for laser cutting systems, which ensure high-performance performance in numerous industrial manufacturing applications.

Silicon Scanner mirror for marking and engraving

Other possible applications are in the areas of surface or depth marking or laser engraving of organic or non-organic materials. This often involves machine-readable information on materials or end products: Dates, barcodes or serial numbers, but also logos, pictograms or illustrations. Laser mirrors and lenses from Pleiger Laser Optics are the first choice in many areas where precise ablative material processing is required, such as the marking of metallic materials for permanently legible labelling of type plates or product marking.