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Author Zhu, Linquan. Cheng, Jun. Zhou, Hanchang. Institution North China Inst of Technology, Taiyuan, China
Source Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. v 3888 2000. Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, Bellingham, WA, USA. p 289-292.
Abstract Because of the weak points of the SLS spot Scanning process, a new rapid prototyping process - SLS line scan using linear array of high power laser diodes regarded as energy sources is researched in this paper. A linear array with requisite length is formed by some high power laser diodes that can be derived individually. Beams of the linear array are transferred to the workplace and imaged some short and light lines by the corresponding optical collimators. They are lined up in a linear laser beam without separation whose length is equal to that of the linear array diodes. When sintering powdered material, the linear laser beam scans in one direction along x axis only. Only if the maximum line length is less than the y axial size of the workpiece, it is necessary that linear laser beam is lapped for some times in the y axis. The Scanning mode of x-y simultaneous guideways are used in this new system which differs entirely from the vibrating mirror scan. The scanning trace of the later is an arcthat will influence processing quality. This new process has higher efficiency and better quality than the traditional spot scanning method. (Auth abstract) [References: 2] XX