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The IPLIT RAN activities involve the pursuance of fundamental and applied R&D works in the field of physics of lasers and laser radiation interaction with matter, as well as in development, production and application of laser technologies, equipment and devices in laser processing of materials, microtechnology, optics, industrial measurements and environmental monitoring, in chemistry and medicine.
In the field of laser technologies the processes and equipment are being developed for materials processing with laser: welding, cutting, heat treatment, microstructuring, fabrication of nanometer thin films, laser-computer rapid prototyping of 3D objects.
In the field of laser technics the first business is to develop high-power industrial CO2 lasers. The IPLIT RAN has the departments engaged in design and production of industrial lasers and laser units for processing materials, of optical, mechanical and electronic components for lasers. The special emphasis is placed on introduction of laser processing and its methods to industrial production. The challenging field for the IPLIT RAN activities is a through chain of works beginning from the study and optimization of processes and resulting in development, manufacturing, supply to the customer and service of laser processing units.
A number of laser treatment processes has been developed and introduced by the IPLIT RAN, among them contour cutting of large-thickness metallic and non- metallic materials, welding of pipes, sheet metals and machine parts, heat treatment of surfaces (application of coatings, facing, hardening). These processes are used in car industry, wood- and metal-working industry, food industry.
Cup, helmet, skull, space module "Kvant", motor detail |
To the recent technology of materials processing belongs laser rapid prototyping (modeling) of 3D objects from polymers by the computer image of the product. For this purpose at the IPLIT RAN an installation for laser stereolithography has been developed and the processes for manufacturing models of machine-building products (in car, aerospace, power industries), as well as complex objects (prostheses, models of human body organs) for medicine and criminalistics have been mastered. |
Power TL-5M CO2 laser |
The industrial lasers developed and produced at the IPLIT RAN match
all the regulations on reliability, stability and high technological quality
of radiation which need to be met with the use of laser in industry. They
include:
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At the IPLITL RAN the optical components (mirrors, windows, lenses, beam splitters, polarizers) and units for high-power (up to 10 kW) CO2 lasers, systems for beam transportation and optico-technological heads for laser processing of materials have been developed and are being produced.
The laser microtechnology covers also the methods and devices under development at the IPLIT RAN for diagnostics of undersurface microdefects by the use of laser probing; early diagnostics of diseases by microanalysis of breathed out gases; express-analysis of hazardous chemical and mechanical microimpurities in the atmosphere by methods of laser spectroscopy.
The laser-equipped scientific and practical medical rooms have been
set up for diagnostics and cure of diseases (movement and support organs,
gynecology, stomatology, traumatology, cardiology).
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The installations for laser surgery, therapy have been developed; fiberoptical devices have been designed and are under production for the purpose of laser medicine. A medical installation for myocardium revascularization has been developed for the first time in Russia and Europe. The pioneer methods of lasers application, including laser formation of cartilagenous tissue, laser deposition of biocompatible coatings on implants are being developed. |
Page was updated: 2 Nov, 1999
