Pulsed laser deposition (PLD) of biaxially oriented cuprate superconducting films rapidly progresses from versatile research method to large scale production method. This development is likely the first example when PLD gets to industrial production tool. In this article we have thoroughly reviewed vast literature data on PLD of YBa2Cu3O7 superconductor coatings on buffered metal tapes and compared these observations with our own experimental results. This comprehensive comparison allowed us to determine for the first time practically useful limits of superconducting performance of PLD-derived YBCO tapes in dependence on underlying buffer layer misorientation and film thickness. We also demonstrate that the PLD process has remarkably low power consumption and enables high-rate production without any performance degradation. We elaborate on further development of high power excimer lasers for superconductor tape production.
Samoilenkov et al. (Sat,) studied this question.