Micro-hole drilling and cutting using femtosecond fiber laser

Optical Engineering

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Huang, Huan ^a   Yang, Lih Mei ^a   Liu, Jian ^a  

^a PolarOnyx Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

cutting; drilling; femtosecond laser; fiber laser; micro hole; micromachining

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT AIR; COLLATERAL THERMAL DAMAGES; FEMTOSECOND FIBER LASERS; FEMTOSECONDS; LASER PARAMETERS; MICRO HOLES; SOFT TISSUE; THERMAL DAMAGE;

ASPECT RATIO; COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS; CUTTING; DRILLING; MICROMACHINING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 84897750666     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.OE.53.5.051513     Document Type: Article

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