Laser is the core component of laser processing equipment, laser technology level has become a key factor affecting the technical level of laser processing equipment, Chinese ultrafine laser has experienced the laboratory application stage, small and medium-sized industrial application stage, will enter the industrial large-scale application stage, industry shipment level and market scale are growing rapidly with the development of the industry. In the future, it is expected that the market size of the industry will continue to grow under the policy.
Core data of this paper: the number of enterprises in the ultrafast laser industry, shipments of ultrafast femtosecond ultrafast laser, ultrafast laser industry market size, etc. Ultrafast laser refers to the laser with shorter duration of laser pulse. Compared with nanosecond laser, ultrafast laser pulse duration is very short, instantaneous power is very high, the energy is focused to a very small space region and is not affected by pulse repetition rate and average power, the beam quality is stable.
Since 1961, when China’s first ruby laser was developed by Changchun Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, laser technology has gone through a rapid development process of more than 50 years. In terms of industrialization, since the 1990s, the old laser companies entered the production of ultra-short pulse laser. In recent years, with the continuous improvement of stability, laser has begun to be used in large scale industry.
In terms of the market demand for ultrafast laser, according to the statistics of 2021 China Laser Industry Development Report jointly released by Wuhan Literature and Information Center of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Laser Journal, Chinese Optical Society and other institutions, shipments of ultrafast femtosecond ultrafast laser in China increased year by year from 2015 to 2020, with a growth rate of more than 50%. In 2020, China shipped 2,100 femtosecond ultra-fast lasers, up 52.2 percent year on year.
In terms of market size, according to the statistics of Wuhan Literature and Information Center of Chinese Academy of Sciences, the sales volume of China’s ultrafast laser grew rapidly from 2015 to 2020. In 2020, the sales volume of China’s ultrafast laser exceeded 2.7 billion yuan, with a year-on-year growth of 10.20%. The average annual compound growth rate of ultrafast laser market from 2015 to 2020 is about 56.24%.
Laser is the core component of laser processing equipment, and the technical level of laser becomes the key factor that affects the technical level of laser processing equipment. The micro-machining laser will keep the trend of developing to the direction of shorter wavelength, narrower pulse width and higher power, and the application scenarios of micro-machining will be further expanded. The 14th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development and the Outline of 2035 Vision Goals of the People’s Republic of China, released in March 2021, proposed to promote the optimization and combination of innovation systems guided by the national strategic needs, and accelerate the building of strategic scientific and technological forces led by national laboratories. A number of national laboratories will be set up to focus on major innovation fields such as quantum information, photonics and micro and nano electronics, and national key laboratories will be reorganized to form a laboratory system with reasonable structure and efficient operation.
Driven by the two wheels of scientific research foundation and demand expansion, the market capacity of ultra-short pulse laser represented by picosecond and femtosecond will continue to increase. Therefore, it is predicted that the market size of China’s ultrafast laser industry will maintain a growth rate of about 15%. It is estimated that the market size of China’s ultrafast laser industry will reach about 6.2 billion yuan in 2026.
Post time: Mar-25-2023