(Bohemia, NY June 17, 2011) The nonlinear interactions induced by the high peak intensities of ultrashort pulse lasers enables:

•  Material agnostic (1 laser, any material)
•  Wavelength agnostic (less material wavelength dependence)

laser processing. However, only the ps laser can practically provide sufficiently high powers at high enough pulse repetition rates for such ultrashort pulse laser processing to effectively prove-in. Current and emerging industrial applications for ps lasers include:

• Semiconductor
  •  Cutting/drilling of wafers
• Flat Panel Display and Cell phone
  • Cut thin display glass
• Drilling small holes
  • holes <100um diameter
• Photovoltaics (PV)/Solar
  • Cut/scribe Si, ITO, and CIGS
• Medical
  • Cutting Stents
  • Ophthalmology
  • Dental
• Material functionalization
  • Micro structuring
• Lightweight material processing
  • Composites
  • CFRP
• Printing and embossing rolls
  • Rotogravure
• Cutting of hard materials
• Poly Crystalline Diamond (PCD)
• Cubic Boron Nitride (CBN)

To learn more about all this, please join Photonics Industries for:

Picosecond Lasers Webcast  

on:

Jun 24, 2011

1:00 PM EDT 10:00 AM PDT 5:00 PM GMT

Approximately one hour

Jeff Hecht, Contributing Editor, Laser Focus World