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CO2 Laser Cutting

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The following bibliography gives a short list of selections of published work which could be of interest as further reading. This list is very brief and a great deal of excellent work has had to be omitted in order to keep it short. I apologise in advance to those authors and editors whose work I have left out. A large proportion of work produced on the subject of laser processing is published as part of the proceedings of the conferences which have multiplied over the past few years. Most of these conferences publish their proceedings as a single volume and these are generally useful compendiums of the publications of a number of workers.

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11.1 Conference Proceedings and Journals 11.1.1 Conference Proceedings A. The Lasers in Manufacturing (LIM) Series

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11.3.3 Cutting Non-metals

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11.3.5 CO2 Lasers

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  1. Laser Expertise Limited, Unit H, Acorn Park Industrial Estate, Harrimans Lane, Nottingham, NG7 2TR, UK

    Dr John Powell DSc, DIC, CEng, CPhys (Technical Director, Visiting Professor, Academician)

  2. Dept. of Materials Processing, Lulea University of Technology, Lulea, S-951 87, Sweden

    Dr John Powell DSc, DIC, CEng, CPhys (Technical Director, Visiting Professor, Academician)

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