High speed laser drilling of metals using a high repetition rate, high average power ultrafast fiber CPA system

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 8958-8968

  Ancona, A ^a,b   Roser F ^a   Rademaker, K ^a   Limpert, J ^a   Nolte, S ^a   Tunnermann A ^a,c  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b INFM   (Italy)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; SHIELDING; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

ABLATION EFFICIENCY; DRILLING EFFICIENCY; HEAT ACCUMULATION EFFECTS; HIGH REPETITION RATE; HIGH THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; PARTICLE EMISSIONS; PROCESSING PARAMETERS; YTTERBIUM DOPED FIBERS;

PULSE REPETITION RATE;

METAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; OPTICS; POROSITY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; LASERS; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; POROSITY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 45249097525     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.008958     Document Type: Article

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