Compared to electronics, semiconductors and other industries, the laser industry is relatively small, 2016 global laser market size of 10.4 billion US dollars, is expected to grow to 11.1 billion US dollars in 2017; China's laser market size of about 60 billion yuan.
Obviously, the laser industry seems to be somewhat insignificant from the market scale; but the application of burning laser technology is almost able to cover all areas of production and life, from automobile manufacturing, power battery, to mobile phone manufacturing, aerospace, medical equipment and even defense And so almost all of the areas we can think of are active in the laser figure; and for many industries, laser technology has become an indispensable support technology. As we all know, the core of China's manufacturing 2025 is intelligent manufacturing, one of the core of intelligent manufacturing is optoelectronic technology, and one of the core of optoelectronic technology is the laser. Therefore, the laser industry itself, the size of the market is small, but it is driving the development of a major core strength of the manufacturing industry, its importance is self-evident.
From the market growth point of view, according to the type of laser, the next five years, the fastest growing market is the direct semiconductor lasers, mainly kilowatt-class high-power semiconductor lasers; growth is the second fastest quantum cascade laser, this high power laser advantage Obviously, widely used, especially in anti-terrorism, security and other applications play an important role in the future of the global quantum cascade lasers will have a huge demand. Fiber lasers will always maintain a steady growth rate.
From the application of the laser market, to remove about half of the optical communications market, the current macro-processing is the largest market, followed by micro-processing, the future with the manufacturing industry continues to high-end development, micro-processing market will have a large growing space.
In the laser micromachine market, the total size of the global laser micromachine market in 2016 is approximately $ 1.1 billion and is expected to grow to $ 1.3 billion in 2017. At present the largest application market is the semiconductor / PC board / display processing market, the main service companies in the field are related companies, and two are the United States of America Cymer and Japan's Giga Photonics. Followed by the precision metal processing market, the nonmetallic processing market and the increased material manufacturing market.
The laser pointer used in laser micromachining applications, mainly excimer lasers, fiber laser CO2 lasers and solid-state lasers, where fiber lasers and excimer lasers are the most used. It is worth mentioning that, CO2 lasers did not die from the market, in fact, recently in the non-metallic processing also ushered in a lot of new opportunities.
Another market for laser processing is the kilowatt-class high-power laser processing market, which in 2016 was about $ 1.5 billion, showing a relatively steady growth in the next five years. In kilowatt-class applications, the current metal cutting applications are still large head, accounting for about 70% of the share, the other two types of applications are metal welding and weighting manufacturing. Although the industry is expected to predict the future of metal welding market is expected to exceed the cutting market, but the next five years, from the sales point of view, the fastest growing or metal cutting applications, is expected to 2022, kilowatt-class fiber laser in metal cutting applications Harvesting $ 1.4 billion in revenue. At present, with the development of fiber lasers, violet laser pointer cutting machine has made a standard product.
Look at the global laser marking market. This is a relatively mature and stable market, the total income of about 600 million US dollars, the future market growth is relatively slow. Currently used for marking the laser is mainly fiber lasers (about half of the market) and CO2 lasers (about 1/3 of the market), the application of semiconductor lasers are gradually increasing.
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