Technical Articles

Technical Articles

Optimising Femtosecond Laser Pulses for Superior Quality

A UV femtosecond laser with pulse-on-demand (POD) capability combines with high-speed galvos for position synchronized output (PSO) processing for high throughput and excellent qua …

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Green Light for Cutting Printed Circuit Boards

The production of printed circuit boards (PCBs) requires a wide variety of processes, many of which are now performed using lasers. As the diameters of the vias required are becoming …

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A Safe Way to Better Vison

Spectra-Physics laser sources have been integrated into WaveLight® FS200 femtosecond laser systems for over ten years.

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System-in-Package (SiP) Materials Cutting Using Green Picosecond Laser

System in package (SiP) singulation cut quality has become increasingly important. Using a green picosecond laser, we demonstrate excellent high-speed cutting of glass-reinforced epoxy …

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Precision Laser Cutting of OLED Polymer Stacks for Bendable Display Technologies

We demonstrate cutting of a foldable OLED display cover window multi-layer stack with a high-power picosecond UV laser.

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Thin-disk multipass amplifier delivering sub-400 fs pulses with excellent beam quality at an average power of 1 kW

In this European research collaboration article, we demonstrate sub-400fs pulses with excellent beam quality at an average power of 1 kW using a high-power Spirit laser amplified with …

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Ultrashort Pulse Laser Cutting of Clear Polyimide and Hard Coat Film Stacks for Flexible OLED Displays

Flexible and foldable OLED displays require new protective cover materials. We present results for cutting thick, transparent, flexible multi-layer stacks using a high power UV ultrashort …

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Polymer Film Processing with a High-power Industrial Femtosecond Laser

Polymer materials are increasingly important for medical device, flat panel display and microelectronics applications. We present micromachining results for polymers processed with …

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Polycrystalline Diamond Machining with Femtosecond Bursts

When extremely high-quality machining is required, high power fs laser ablation has become a useful alternative to conventional non-laser processes such as milling, grinding and electric …

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Laser Micromachining of Bio-Absorbable Polymers: Impact of the Laser Process Parameters on the Machining Throughput and Quality

The influence of the laser process parameters on the efficiency and quality of the machining of bioabsorbable materials using High Q Spirit™ femtosecond laser system is presented.

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Nitinol Machining for Precision Applications Using Femtosecond Lasers

Shape-memory alloys and in particular, nitinol, have revolutionized the market for implantable medical devices such as stents. In this article, we present femtosecond laser results …

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Synchronization Techniques Enable Novel Ultrafast Science

Minimizing the temporal jitter in ultrafast oscillator systems is key to successful pump-probe spectroscopy. Recently, synchronization between two independent oscillators has been applied …

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Ultrashort Pulse Laser Technology for Processing of Advanced Electronics Materials

Using Spectra-Physics state-of-the-art ultrashort pulse laser technology, provides both high pulse energy and high average power, both of which are attractive to industry, processing …

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The Ti:Sapphire Laser - The Flexible Research Tool

The Ti:Sapphire laser has an important role in imaging, spectroscopy and many other applications.

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Lasers May Brighten the Solar Market

Thin film panel technology count on laser systems as a critical piece of inline production systems.

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Optimization of UV Laser Scribing Process for Light Emitting Diode Sapphire Wafers

Sapphire wafer singulation into miniature dies is one of the critical steps used in blue LED manufacturing. In recent years, laser scribing and breaking has proven to bevery efficient …

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Deep Dive into Multiphoton Imaging

In the past decade, Multiphoton Excited Fluorescence (MPEF) has firmly established itself as a major imaging technique for biological sciences. MPEF enables fast 3D in vivo imaging …

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Hybrid Fiber Lasers Raise the Bar for Precision Manufacturing

Enabled by advances in laser technologies, laser micromachining has become a critical mainstream process for highvolume manufacturing - addressing the key requirements for process quality, …

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High-Speed Fabrication of Laser Doping Selective Emitter Solar Cells Using 532 nm Continuous Wave (CW) and Mode-Locked Quasi-CW Laser Sources

LDSE is a promising process for high efficiency solar cells, and the choice of laser source can have a significant effect on cell performance. In various experiment studies, the 532-nm …

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Advantages of Using DPSS ns Laser with a Gaussain Beam Shape for Scribing Thin Film Photovoltaic Panels

Once acceptable process parameters are defined for a low M2 Gaussian DPSS nanosecond laser beam scribing process, such system is capable of accommodating large process defocus variation …

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