Patent ID: 11886053
Assignee: NLIGHT, INC.
Field: Optics (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B  H  Y | IPC B  G  H

Claim 5:
6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the perturbation assembly is powered by, or comprises, a power source and the apparatus further comprises circuitry arranged to identify a beam perturbation device drive level in accordance with a selected mode of the group of modes, the beam perturbation device drive level arranged to tune the delivery of the laser beam to the workpiece;
wherein the perturbation assembly is situated to select a bend of at least a section of the perturbation region to perturb the optical beam and produce the modified optical beam, in response to operating based on the identified beam perturbation device drive level; and
wherein the confinement region is situated to receive the modified optical beam.