Abstract
This year Strategies Unlimited has expanded its comprehensive industrial and
fiber laser report to provide much more insight and precision into the
applications and projections to 2011. This report remains the most complete in
the industry, now with more detail on how the market estimates were made. The
report covers the entire industrial laser market, with special emphasis on
fiber lasers and thin-disk lasers.
The market continues to expand at a healthy rate, with fiber laser sales now
past $200 million. This year we count over 30 companies making complete fiber
laser products, including announcements by GSI, Rofin-Sinar, and Trumpf at
Laser 2007 in Munich. This industry is not one to make rapid changes, but many
application trends are becoming more clear in this period of transition, and
analyzed in this update from Strategies Unlimited.