Open AccessMaterial Processing with Ultrashort‐pulsed Lasers
Author(s) -
Holtkamp Jens,
Eifel Stephan,
Ryll Joachim
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
laser technik journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1863-9119
pISSN - 1613-7728
DOI - 10.1002/latj.201400027
Subject(s) - workflow , photonics , computer science , laser , process (computing) , materials processing , laser ablation , data acquisition , reliability (semiconductor) , process engineering , materials science , optics , optoelectronics , physics , engineering , database , power (physics) , quantum mechanics , operating system
The outstanding properties of ultrashort‐pulsed laser have led to a huge amount of potential applications as a precise and flexible tool for materials processing. On the other hand, complex process parameter correlations paired with high investment costs require efficient process chains to ensure an economical use in production. Pulsar Photonics presents a tool system that stands out by its integrated inspection routines and workflow management. Embedded sensors and networked actuators offer the Industry 4.0 capability of machine data acquisition together with the benefits of an improved reliability. For competitive series applications Pulsar Photonics focuses on an increased efficiency by multiple beam processing. Hereby the laser beam is divided into up to 100 parallelized beams, thus enabling the efficient production of periodic structures, large‐scaled ablation or the parallel processing of multiple components.