Description

• Pulsed green ytterbium fiber lasers are used in ablation, micromachining, texturing and marking vehicle part identification numbers, medical products, and implants.
• Ytterbium lasers are used to drill into diamonds to remove imperfections.
• Heat-treatment with ytterbium lasers is used to surface-harden turbine blades, threads on industrial tools, and piston rings.
• Implanted radioactive ytterbium***9 is used to fight cancerous cells.