EV Battery Manufacturing

Handle battery manufacturing challenges with laser technology that offers higher yields and scalability.

Reduce HAZ Weld the most sensitive materials with lasers that minimize part heating.
Drive Quality Lower weld porosity and spatter, and increase precision and repeatability.
Increase Throughput Cut cycle time, plus eliminate rework and postprocessing to improve productivity.

Welding Dissimilar Materials

Contacting dissimilar materials - like aluminum to copper - with excellent electrical conductivity, high mechanical strength, and precise control over penetration depth.

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HighLight ARM Fiber Lasers

HighLight ARM Fiber Lasers (FL-ARM) utilize a unique center/ring beam for effectively welding heat-sensitive materials, dissimilar materials, and even copper.

StarFiber Series for Welding and Cutting

StarFiber Series combine compact fiber lasers with optional focusing heads for laser welding or cutting, including SmartWeld™ technology for fine and wide welds.

Processing Heads

Coherent processing heads integrate precision focusing optics with a galvanometer scanning module to improve and extend welding and cutting capabilities.

Copper Welding

Efficiently weld copper without process instabilities using the ARM fiber laser and achieve cost, reliability, and practical advantages over green lasers.

Weld Large Batteries

High-speed production Joining of large form factor cylindrical battery components with minimal heat affected zone, no spatter, and accurate penetration depth control.

HighLight ARM Fiber Lasers

HighLight ARM Fiber Lasers (FL-ARM) utilize a unique center/ring beam for effectively welding heat-sensitive materials, dissimilar materials, and even copper.

StarFiber Series for Welding and Cutting

StarFiber Series combine compact fiber lasers with optional focusing heads for laser welding or cutting, including SmartWeld™ technology for fine and wide welds.

Processing Heads

Coherent processing heads integrate precision focusing optics with a galvanometer scanning module to improve and extend welding and cutting capabilities.

Can/Cap Welding

High-speed, hermetically-sealed welds for prismatic cell battery can/caps, housings, contacts, and safety valves with low spatter, cracking, and porosity.

HighLight ARM Fiber Lasers

HighLight ARM Fiber Lasers (FL-ARM) utilize a unique center/ring beam for effectively welding heat-sensitive materials, dissimilar materials, and even copper.

UW Systems

UW Systems are universal laser workstations for precision CNC laser processing of 2D and 3D parts, with choice of nanosecond, USP, or fiber laser sources.

StarFiber Series for Welding and Cutting

StarFiber Series combine compact fiber lasers with optional focusing heads for laser welding or cutting, including SmartWeld™ technology for fine and wide welds.

Processing Heads

Coherent processing heads integrate precision focusing optics with a galvanometer scanning module to improve and extend welding and cutting capabilities.

Foil Welding

Foil-to-tab welding with excellent weld penetration, minimal spatter, and reduced heat damage using single-mode ARM fiber lasers.

HighLight ARM Fiber Lasers

HighLight ARM Fiber Lasers (FL-ARM) utilize a unique center/ring beam for effectively welding heat-sensitive materials, dissimilar materials, and even copper.

StarFiber Series for Welding and Cutting

StarFiber Series combine compact fiber lasers with optional focusing heads for laser welding or cutting, including SmartWeld™ technology for fine and wide welds.

Processing Heads

Coherent processing heads integrate precision focusing optics with a galvanometer scanning module to improve and extend welding and cutting capabilities.

Busbar Welding

Weld busbars with excellent control of workpiece heating, penetration depth, and weld width, whether it's steel, copper, aluminum, or a mixture of materials.

HighLight ARM Fiber Lasers

HighLight ARM Fiber Lasers (FL-ARM) utilize a unique center/ring beam for effectively welding heat-sensitive materials, dissimilar materials, and even copper.

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HighLight Fiber Laser (FL)

HighLight Fiber Lasers (FL) are industrial, multi-kW fiber lasers for welding tasks that maximize operational flexibility with detachable process fibers.

StarFiber Series for Welding and Cutting

StarFiber Series combine compact fiber lasers with optional focusing heads for laser welding or cutting, including SmartWeld™ technology for fine and wide welds.

Processing Heads

Coherent processing heads integrate precision focusing optics with a galvanometer scanning module to improve and extend welding and cutting capabilities.

Busbar Stripping

CO₂ lasers efficiently remove polymer insulating coatings at high speed without damaging the underlying conductor.

Enclosure Welding

Filler-free ARM laser welding of aluminum battery modules and enclosures minimizes distortion, porosity, cracks and spatter.

Electrode and Separator Cutting

Cut coated battery electrodes (anodes/cathodes) and separator materials (including ceramics) with high precision and a small heat-affected zone.

HyperRapid NXT

HyperRapid NXT is a high-power picosecond laser that maximizes throughput and minimizes cost-per-part with an operational range suitable for nearly any material.

PowerLine C

PowerLine C are CO₂ laser-based systems for precision drilling, cutting, scribing, marking, and engraving of many non-metals, including glass, organic materials.

DIAMOND J-Series

DIAMOND J-Series compact, CO₂ lasers combine power, excellent beam quality, and nearly square wave pulses for high processing efficiency and speed.

Thin Film Electrolyte Sintering for next generation of solid-state Li-ion batteries

Excimer pulsed laser deposition of thin-film electrolyte layers for lithium-ion batteries delivers dense and stoichiometric films for improved storage and charging.

Video Spotlight

A Scalable Solution for Copper Welding With Lasers - explained by our Coherent Labs Manager

Coherent Labs Manager Peter Kallage knows what matters when it comes to copper welding with IR wavelength lasers in battery production.

Featured Blog

How Fiber Lasers Are Powering Electric Vehicle Batteries

Learn how Coherent fiber lasers deliver the best and most economical solution for the precise and demanding welding tasks of EV battery production.

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Solution Brief

Copper Welding with High Brightness, Adjustable Ring Mode (ARM) Fiber Lasers

Laser welding of copper.

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Solution Brief

Welding Aluminum Foil Busbar to Copper Bar

Laser welding of thin foils and heat sensitive materials for battery and e-mobility applications.

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White Paper

Powering e-mobility - Welding copper with the Adjustable Ring Mode (ARM) fiber laser

While fiber lasers are the dominant laser source for welding, th eir infrared output is highly reflected by some metals, especially copper, which limits their effectiveness with these materials.

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Laser Solutions for Battery Manufacturing

Electrodes • Battery Cell • Battery Pack

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Customer

Success Stories

The introduction of laser technology has enabled us to definitely expand our addressable markets, since variant production from standard plastic parts and sheet metal processing would not have been possible without the laser systems.

Armin Buchsteiner Managing Director & co-owner of Bröking-Plastex

Bröking-Plastex: An automotive industry leader

At Bröking-Plastex, one thing becomes clear: the trend towards ever greater variant diversity requires specialists who can produce the smallest to large batch sizes flexibly and economically.

1 - 500

Typical batch size

Over 50%

Parts processed with the laser

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