Agriculture
Target weeds precisely without herbicides. Futonics thulium fiber lasers combine absorption in water-rich plant tissue around 2 µm with high beam quality and tightly focused power for selective thermal treatment in agricultural robots and OEM systems.
Discuss your applicationLaser weeding applies energy selectively to individual weeds or growth centers without mechanically disturbing the soil and without chemical herbicides.
High beam quality enables small focus spots and high power density, supporting fast local treatment in precision-agriculture systems.
Plant tissue contains substantial water, and 2 µm radiation is more strongly absorbed by water-rich tissue than many shorter infrared wavelengths, supporting locally confined thermal treatment.
Futonics offers high-power CW and QCW platforms with excellent beam quality for integration into scanners, mobile agricultural robots and OEM machinery.
Laser weeding requires both a suitable wavelength and sufficient power density at the plant. Water-rich tissue absorbs 2 µm radiation more strongly than radiation at 1 µm. When comparing laser sources, the achievable focus, available power and optical-system requirements also matter, including for CO₂, 1.5 µm and UV alternatives.
These comparisons concern the complete processing task: wavelength alone does not determine treatment speed. The beam must be focused onto a small target area such as a growth center, and the energy delivery must match the plant and working distance.
A laser-weeding system combines plant detection with targeted treatment. The laser source supplies the energy, while the detection and scanner system determine where it is delivered. Selective treatment of unwanted plants is intended to spare crops and avoid mechanical soil disturbance.
Our lasers can be integrated into mobile agricultural robots and OEM machinery for vegetable production, specialty crops and row crops. Working distance, spot size, required power density and vehicle speed are linked integration requirements. Selecting a CW or QCW source therefore belongs to the overall robotic and scanning concept.
Suitability depends on target plant, working distance, scanner system, spot size, required power density, travel speed and integration concept. Futonics supports evaluation and selection of a suitable CW or QCW laser module.
CW
The 400 W Thulium Fiber Laser from Futonics is a single-mode 2 µm fiber laser system for industrial, medical and scientific applications. It provides up to 400 W continuous output power, fixed emission wavelengths between 1908 nm and 2050 nm, excellent beam quality and reliable long-term operation. The compact 19-inch rackmount housing is designed for integration into demanding laser processing, research and OEM systems.
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QCW
The 1200 W QCW Air-Cooled Thulium Fiber Laser from Futonics is a pulsed 2 µm fiber laser system designed specifically for medical integration. It provides up to 1200 W peak power, up to 120 W average output power and pulse energies of up to 10 J. Flexible pulse shaping enables application-specific energy delivery for high-pulse-energy medical applications such as lithotripsy, as well as integration into OEM medical devices.
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