The economy and society are surging, and science and technology are endless. Based on good performance advantages such as monochromaticity, directionality and high energy density, laser has become an important means of reform and upgrading of traditional industries, and it has played an outstanding role in improving product quality, labor productivity and automation. effect.
From the perspective of global market trends, in the past five years, the global laser industry revenue scale continued to grow, with 2017 revenue of 12.43 billion US dollars and a compound annual growth rate of 8.50%. With the breakthrough of high-power laser technology and additive manufacturing technology The future of the laser industry will continue to grow rapidly.
For a long time, the development of lasers in developed countries such as Europe and the United States started earlier and occupied a large market share for a long time. With the global manufacturing industry shifting to developing countries, the market share of the laser industry in the Asia-Pacific region has grown rapidly.
On the other hand, affected by factors such as macroeconomic development, manufacturing industry upgrading, and national policy support, China's laser industry has become more and more concerned and the market has developed rapidly. Currently, lasers are mainly used in communications, materials processing, R&D and military applications. , medical beauty and other fields.
In 2017, the domestic laser processing equipment market reached 49.5 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 28.57%. Benefiting from the strong demand for processing equipment such as consumer electronics and new energy, it is expected that the domestic laser equipment market will exceed 60 billion yuan in 2018.
From the perspective of technological development, new technologies in the laser industry continue to emerge, and market applications continue to expand. Recently, the team of Ning Yongqiang, a researcher at the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has independently developed some of the core technologies of laser TV and developed domestic The first 8-watt fiber-optic coupling module based on the independent 638 nm red LD chip. This means that Chinese researchers have partially broken through the core technology of laser TV.
In fact, industrial lasers are the core components of laser processing and additive manufacturing equipment, and are the core and foundation of the development of the laser industry. In recent years, industrial lasers have developed more rapidly, and a wide variety of lasers have emerged. Among them, fiber lasers account for The highest. The fiber laser has the advantages of high conversion efficiency, good beam quality and small size, and the proportion of the laser is increasing.
In the future, with the expansion of information, materials, biology, energy, space, ocean and other six high-tech fields, new market demand will stimulate the laser industry to usher in a new wave of development. The huge market opportunities are coming, no doubt the laser The speed of technological innovation, R&D team, and R&D level all put forward higher requirements. With the further development of the industry, relevant technical capabilities will continue to be improved. Domestic enterprises need to continuously carry out technological innovation, and gradually become the mainstay of the industry in new development.
In the face of the growing demand for lasers, domestic laser manufacturers should increase R&D and productivity, and at the same time accelerate the penetration and innovation of laser processing in the domestic industry, in order to seize more market share.
