Technical Articles

Silicon Carbide (SiC) materials, used in power electronics for e-mobility, photovoltaics, and power storage, have processing challenges addressed by advanced micromachining lasers, …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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.

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 …

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

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 …

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

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

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 …

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 …

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

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 …