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LaserTower™ Little-Giant

LaserTower™ Little-Giant Professional – Laser Engraving and 3d Laser Marking Laser System

The LaserTower™ Little-Giant 3D Marking and Engraving System is a low-cost commercial-grade material processing system designed for low-profile flat marking applications and very small size for the tightest workspace conditions.

Fonon Corporation’s LaserTower™ Little-Giant  is a general purpose low-profile commercial-grade 3D material processing system designed to perform under elevated vibration, shock and dust conditions.

The LaserTower™ Little-Giant is designed with a 20W Q-Switched Fiber Laser along with a 160mm F-Theta lens providing a marking area of 4” x 4”.  The LaserTower™ Little-Giant has an extremely-low height profile for very space sensitive environments.

All Direct Parts Marking (DPM), including UDI/UID barcodes, logos and engravings are permanent, legible and non-removable across a wide range of materials.  The LaserTower™ Little-Giant incorporates Fonon’s proprietary FiberScan™ C3 LG Software.

The LaserTower™ Little-Giant is a low-cost commercial-grade, 3D Marking & Engraving System designed for low-profile flat marking applications.  The unit is ideal for space sensitive workshop conditions incorporating a removable scissor jack lift platform.  The LaserTower™ Little-Giant includes a 20W Fiber Laser, Scan Head, 160mm F-Theta lens, Scan Head Controller and Power Supply.  The LaserTower™ Little-Giant provides a USB Port supporting Windows protocols.

 

LaserTower™ Professional Duo 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
• Standard wall plug operation with high electrical efficiency
• Low voltage power source (110/220 VAC) 8 amps
• Laser “ON” magnetically locked front doors for operator safety
• Oversized chamber provides working area for larger parts
• 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
• Removable Rotary Motor for circumferential marking
• Exhaust outlet for Fume Extractor
• Side Doors for longer parts (optional)
• 80 PSI Pneumatic activated front-sliding doors (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 & 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 the laser beam.  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 – 420mm

Rotary “C”-Indexer for Circumferential Marking

Options Include 3”, 4” or 5” Self-Centering Chucks

Tail Stock Support (option) 

Touch Screen Interface

IR Laser Beam Red Diode Pointer

Light Barriers (option)

Dual Push Buttons for Safe Operation (option)

Precision Linear Bearing Tracks

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.

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.