The influence of the pulse length on the drilling of metals with an excimer laser

Journal of Laser Applications

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 85-91

  Schoonderbeek, Aart ^a,b   Biesheuvel, Cornelis A ^a   Hofstra, Ramon M ^a   Boller, Klaus J ^a   Meijer, Johan ^a,b  

^a Nederlands Centrum voor Laser Research BV   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Excellent beam quality; Excimer; Laser drilling; Pulse length; XeCl

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM FOIL; DRILLING; EXCIMER LASERS; LASER PULSES; NICKEL;

HOLE DRILLING; LASER DRILLING; PULSE LENGTH;

LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 3142685063     PISSN: 1042346X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2351/1.1710888     Document Type: Article

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