GD Laser Completes Series A Financing

With the development of smart manufacturing in a more precise and subdivided direction in the future, narrow pulses (nanosecond, picosecond and femtosecond) and short wavelengths (green light and ultraviolet) will be the two major technical trends of fiber lasers in the future.

In the field of narrow pulses, many companies have deployed ultrafast lasers, and the competition is fierce, while the field of short wavelengths is relatively blank. In the current domestic fiber laser market, infrared light sources with longer wavelengths are more common choices. For example, in the precision welding of copper materials in the emerging new energy industry, the mainstream equipment used is high-power infrared fiber lasers.

However, compared with the infrared band, the use of green light is based on its advantages of high stability, energy concentration, and high electro-optical conversion efficiency. The efficiency of welding copper is higher and there is almost no spatter. In addition to gradually replacing infrared fiber lasers in some scenarios, short-wavelength fiber lasers also have broad new application scenarios in lithium batteries, photovoltaics, semiconductors and other fields. GD Laser believes that short-wavelength lasers will usher in a huge market opportunity.

At present, GD Laser has launched a series of green fiber laser products ranging from CW and quasi-continuous to nanosecond and picosecond, including high-power 100-500W continuous single-mode green fiber laser, high-power 100-500W quasi-continuous single-mode green fiber laser Optical fiber laser, 50-100W sub-nanosecond pulsed green fiber laser and 10-30W ultrafast green fiber laser, etc.

Whether it is high power or short wavelength, it is the main battlefield of domestic fiber laser performance competition in recent years, and there are also high technical thresholds. Today, GD Laser has formed a full-chain self-research technical capability from the self-research of the underlying material, to the matching design and development of the device, to the system-level design of the entire laser based on the underlying material and device, and has obtained 15 authorized patents. Build solid technical barriers.

Unlike the infrared laser market that has exploded and formed a scale of tens of billions, the development of green lasers is still in its infancy, and the commercialization process is slow. Therefore, in addition to product research and development, another key task of GD Laser is to develop the application market of high-power short-wavelength lasers and grow together with the market.