However, industrial applications demand for enhanced throughput. Scaling the process speed requires advanced concepts for temporal and spatial tailoring the laser induced heat. By using short laser pulse trains, so-called bursts allows to reduce or redistribute the induced stress and hence increase the breaking strength of welded samples in the range of the volume material. Besides the laser parameters used, also the surface quality and eventual gaps denote a decisive issue for laser welding under industrial conditions. In this framework time-resolved pump-probe measurements are used to analyze the evolution of weld seams, in particular the melt transfer in between the samples facilitating process development. By extending the time-resolved pump-probe setup with polarization optics even allows for quantitatively investigating laser induced stress which serves to optimize the achievable breaking strength. |
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Glasses
Interfaces
Laser welding
Pulsed laser operation
Polarization
Ultrafast phenomena
Picosecond phenomena