LaserTower™ Professional
Laser Marking | Laser Engraving Systems
The LaserTower™ Professional 3D Marking and Engraving System is an industrial-grade cutting-edge material processing system that operates as a stand-alone system or easily integrates into an I/O production line in a small 2ft by 2ft space saving footprint.
Fonon Corporation’s LaserTower™ Professional is a versatile 3D industrial-grade material processing system designed to perform under high-vibration, shock and dust conditions.
Each LaserTower™ Professional is optimized per our customer’s unique application. The LaserTower™ Professional is designed with either a Fiber Laser or CO² Laser with wattages ranging from 20W to 100W. The LaserTower™ Professional provides a 19” by 19” material working space inside the enclosure. All Direct Parts Marking (DPM), including UDI/UID barcodes, logos and engravings are permanent, legible and non-removable across the largest range of materials. The LaserTower™ Professional incorporates Fonon’s proprietary FiberScan™ C3 Software designed to specifically run on Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP Professional.
The LaserTower™ Professional is an industrial-grade, 3D Marking & Engraving System incorporating a programmable 8” Z-axis for focal height adjustments with 2 optical X’Y’ axes and a portfolio of lens options that incrementally increases the range of the marking area from 2” x 2” to 9” x 9”. The LaserTower™ Professional is optimized for a Fiber Laser or Fantom SLAB CO² Laser, Scan Head, Industrial PC Controller and Power Supply. The LaserTower™ Professional incorporates the latest FiberScan™C3 Software designed to specifically run on Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP Professional. The LaserTower™ Professional processes the largest range of mate¬rials in the industry with special attention to highly-reflective metal applications.
HIGH TECH APPLICATIONS
The LaserTower™ series produce a wide variety of Permanent, Legible Non-Removable Marks on a wide variety of materials.
Applications and Types of Marks
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Applications and Types of Marks
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LaserTower™ Professional Design: Main Features:
Maintenance-Free Direct Part Marking (DPM)
Continuous operation under high-shock, vibration and dust conditions
Long-term industrial-grade reliability with 50,000 hours MTBF
Optimized for either a Fiber or CO² Laser
Standard wall plug operation with high electrical efficiency
Low voltage power source (110/220 VAC) 8 amps
Laser “ON” magnetically locked front door for operator safety
2 ft x 2 ft space saving footprint for tight production line workspaces
Large chamber provides a 19” by 19” material working area
8” Z-Axis Controller to accommodate a wide range of heights
Class 1 or Class 4 Laser-Rated Safety Viewing Port
PC-Based Controller, Flat Panel Monitor, Mouse and Keyboard
Industrial-grade Extruded Frame with 19” Rack Mount Design
Exhaust outlet for Fume Extractor
Side Doors for longer parts (optional)
Fiber Laser: 20W-30W-50W Options
Fiber Lasers are a great leap forward in processing all metal and coated soft material applications. Our Fiber Lasers are easily integrated into industrial processes in comparison with conventional lasers due to:
State of the art, Air-cooled, Ytterbium Q-switched Fiber Laser up to 2mJ for marking on virtually any material
CW or Q-switched Fiber laser options with high-repetition rate
Excellent TEM00 beam quality (M2 < 1.05)
Exceptional High Reliability with more than 30,000 hours estimated maintenance-free operation
Very high 50,000 hours MTBF (100,000 hours typical on diodes)
Flexible cable-beam delivery system
No water cooling required
Optimized for Direct Part Marking (DPM) applications including UDI/UID Barcoding and 3D Deep Engraving
Red diode pointer for easy application setup
Fiber delivery up to 5 meters
Warranty – 2 years on laser components with 5 years optional program
Q-Switched Fiber Laser
The Q-switched Fiber Laser is maintenance-free. It delivers an excellent diffraction-limited (TEM00 beam quality M2 < 1.05) laser beam directly to the worksite via a metal sheathed single-mode fiber cable. These compact service-free Fiber Lasers are designed to operate under high-shock, vibration and dust conditions in relatively high humidity across wide operating temperature ranges. State-of-the-art air-cooled Ytterbium lasers have a very high MTBF of 50,000 hours (100,000 hours typical on diodes). There is no routine replacement of parts or materials scheduling requiring only a low voltage power source. Fiber-to-Fiber architecture provides a robust, monolithic design with no optics to align, no mechanics to stabilize. The laser is engineered for optimal power and density providing responsive performance for the most demanding applications.
Fantom CO² SLAB Laser: 30W-100W Options
Fonon Corporation’s proprietary Fantom CO² SLAB Lasers are a leap forward in laser technology.
These CO² lasers are easily integrated into industrial processes in comparison with conventional
lasers due to:
Designed to operate under high shock, vibration and dust conditions
Sealed off and RF Excited CO² SLAB laser
CW or Pulsed CO² laser options
Excellent TEM00 beam quality (M2 < 1.2)
Exceptional Reliability with more than 10,000 hours maintenance-free operation
Sealed dust-proof design
No need for gas refill during the warranty period
Flexible cable-beam delivery system
No water cooling required
Optimized for Direct Part Marking (DPM) applications including UID/UDI barcoding and engraving
Red diode pointer for easy application setup (Optional)
Warranty – 2 years on laser components with 5 years optional program
Fantom F30/F100 CO² SLAB Laser
Fantom F30/F100 CO² SLAB Lasers are completely sealed units requiring no gas connections producing a beam that processes material at an average power of 30W/100W respectively. These CO² lasers provide a low M2 (<1.2), high quality beam that allows smaller focus spot sizes and incorporates Fonon Technologies’ proprietary fast-rising square wave pulsing technology with repetition rates up to 25 kHz with an output wavelength of 10.6 microns.
Scanning Head
The Scan Head is designed to quickly and precisely deflect and position laser beams with powers up to the kilowatt range. With apertures of 20mm and 25mm, small spot sizes are achieved along with large image fields. Very stable operating conditions as well as high long-term stability are provided by air cooling of the entrance aperture, electronics, and galvanometer scanners and supplemented by air cooling of the deflection mirrors. The compact housing is dust proof and water spray resistant.
PC Based Controller
The PC-Based Controller is an industrial-grade PC in an open and upgradeable configuration incorporating the latest generation mother board and data storage devices.
The controller also includes an advanced Scan Head Digital Control Board and optically isolated I/O card. The unit operates on Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP Professional with optional field correction software for demanding applications.
DSP Control Board
The PC Interface DSP Control Board provides synchronous, interference -resistant control of the scan system and laser in real time. A high performance signal processor and the supplied DLL simplify programming under Windows. Software instructions are loaded alternately in two list buffers processed by the DSP and output as 16-bit control signals every 10µs to the scan system.
The processor automatically performs vital steps such as micro-vectorization and image field correction. Laser control is synchronized with the scanner movements.
Precise, Maintenance Free Z-Axis Controller
The Z-Axis Controller with an 8” vertical capability accommodates a variety of field replaceable lenses. Made of stainless-steel construction with contact free home and positioning sensor along with a life lubricated preloaded linear slide with dust protected way cover.
Precise, F-Theta Lens Options
100mm – 160mm – 254mm – 330mm
Touch Screen Interface
IR Laser Beam Red Diode Pointer
Light Barriers (option)
Dual Push Buttons for Safe Operation (option)
Auto Focus Laser Height Sensor with Controller and Software
Small-spot, Definite-Reflective Type
50 µm Spot Diameter
Maximum Detection range of 150 mm
High-speed Response and Digital Display
High-Power Mode with 16-Bit High Accuracy
Reading on Transparent and Solid Surfaces
Host Communication/Database Interface
Vision System Recognition/Alignment System
Frame Design:
Rigid, light aluminum extrusion providing excellent protection of equipment corners and rigid, stiff design for long term stability.
Skins Design:
New modern 3 layer laminate: Aluminum, plastic, aluminum. Powder coated for industrial durability providing excellent protection for laser radiation according to CDRH requirements.
Transparent Protective Window:
CDRH rated yellow transparent laser rated acrylic window for visualization of lasing processes and easier alignment.
Operations & Maintenance Manual (in English) includes:
Service Information
General Description
Laser Safety Manual
Schematics (Appendix A)
Software Manual (Appendix B)
Operation Description –
I/O Description
Troubleshoot Guide
Scan head manual
Control Board Manual
FiberScan C3™ Software
FiberScan C3™ software is a high performance, multi-threaded laser marking solution designed to specifically run on Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP Professional. The user-friendly software entails a fully integrated driver, remote diagnostic capabilities for worldwide support and multiple hardware interfaces for the ability to execute any Fiber Laser marking system. File links to several internal databases make the FiberScan C3™ program flexible and powerful.
These databases include a materials application system and a fixture database. The materials application system allows a user to define a laser process, give the process a unique name and subsequently link the process to graphic programs. A process can include multiple passes using different values for power, frequency and speed on each laser pass. The database can contain and manage many thousands of different process ‘recipes’.
The fixture database allows the user to control fixture offsets
and define step and repeat processes. Just like the material database, any WLJ job can use any fixture defined in the fixture database. The link sallow all appropriate graphic and process information to be automatically loaded when the operator selects the lasing file. At any time the operator can change the links, for example a lasing job that is normally marked on stainless steel, can be marked on brass by selecting the brass process file prior to executing the job program file. Operators don’t have the need to remember fonts and logos for a particular job because FiberScan C3™ automatically performs all required graphic loading. FiberScan C3™ does not require users to learn any programming languages or special codes and provides all of the flexible and graphic controls that users are accustomed to such as radial marking, aspect control, character spacing, angular rotations and full justification.
Operations & Maintenance Manual (in English) includes:
Service Information
General Description
Laser Safety Manual
Schematics (Appendix A)
Software Manual (Appendix B)
Operation Description
I/O Description
Troubleshoot Guide
Scan head manual
Control Board Manual