MOPA fiber laser with controlled pulse width and peak power for optimizing micromachining applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7584, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Hendow, Sami T ^a   Shakir, Sami A ^b   Sousa, Joao M ^a  

^a Multiwave Photonics   (Portugal)

^b NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Fiber lasers; Laser materials processing; Pulsed; Silicon ablation; Ytterbium

Indexed keywords

1064 NM; HIGH PEAK POWER; INCIDENT PULSE ENERGY; LASER MATERIALS PROCESSING; MATERIAL ABLATION; PEAK POWER; PENETRATION DEPTH; PULSE ENERGIES; PULSE REPETITION FREQUENCIES; PULSE WIDTH; PULSED; SINGLE-SHOT; TEMPERATURE RISE; TEST RESULTS; THERMAL MODEL;

ABLATION; CERAMIC MATERIALS; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; MICROELECTRONICS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; PULSED LASERS; YTTERBIUM;

PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 77951520319     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.846928     Document Type: Conference Paper

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