The laser industry is a new and high technology industry which has been developed rapidly and has been infiltrated into various industries to form a variety of light source technologies and applications. 

Laser development overview

The development of the global laser industry

The laser industry chain can be divided into three parts: upper, middle and lower; the upstream is mainly laser materials and supporting components; It is mainly used for various laser and supporting equipment. The downstream is mainly for laser application products, consumer products, instruments and equipment. At present, the market value of every year and laser related products and services is worth trillions of dollars, from high-end fiber-optic cables to the usual barcode scanners. 

In 2012, the laser from the scientific innovation to the industry "tools" to make progress, and that now is the time to consider to develop some new application fields, these emerging field can improve the laser for 5% of the market for a long time "slow and steady" -- 6% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), on average, to make it at a double-digit pace. 

Status quo of China's laser industry 

Although laser industry in China has made great progress in recent years, but have to admit that the current laser industry in China (particularly in the area of laser core device and laser industry in developed countries there is a obvious gap, mainly embodied in the following aspects:

Results transformation and industrialization degree are low: in the process of forming economies of scale, the importance of transformation and industrialization is self-evident. Laser technology in theory research in China and abroad the gap is small, almost in every aspect and synchronous study abroad and have their own advantages in some aspects, but as a result of research, mainly concentrated in the institute and universities in many scientific research achievements have been shelved, unable to realize industrialization. 

Weak basic research, scientific research and development is mainly at the track and small batch production stage, the laser industry scale, industrialization production technology is still no substantive breakthrough, especially in the field of high-end semiconductor laser at a disadvantage, confines the enhancing of laser equipment overall performance.

Ascending slowly: laser key device technology domestic research production of laser devices and components there are quite a part also failed to meet the requirements of the machine and system, lead to foreign components occupy a considerable market share, shrink the domestic market demand of the device. On the other hand, the production of domestic components has been dependent on several research institutes, and its production supply is relatively monopolistic, which has affected the development of the laser industry. As in recent years, the national science century, zhongke maiman, Wu Hanrui branch, suzhou Tucson, jie put, chong xin laser, laser AnYang laser companies successively into the field of fiber laser, such as our country totally dependent on import in the field of fiber laser situation to improve.

Global laser market size

According to OFweek industry research center statistics, in 2013, the global industrial laser market sales of $3.141 billion, compared with 2012 sales of $2.884 billion increased by 8.91%, but still below last year's 11.6% growth forecasts.

 

2010-2018 global industrial laser market scale (unit: million usd)

In 2015, global industrial laser market sales will reach us $37.7 billion, up 12.04% from 2014. At the same time, with the continuous improvement of technological progress and market demand, high power lasers and new laser products and applications have become the focus of research and development of major companies. The new laser products such as vanwatt-scale high power fiber laser, semiconductor laser and ultraviolet laser are becoming the core equipment to promote the development of the laser industry. The OFweek industry research center expects the global industrial laser market to reach $53.41 billion by 2018.