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15 February 2012 Optimization of the volume ablation rate for metals at different laser pulse-durations from ps to fs
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Ultra short laser pulses in the ps or fs regime are used, when high requirements concerning machining quality are demanded. However, beside the quality also the process efficiency denotes a key factor for the successful transfer of this technology into real industrial applications. Based on the ablation law, holding for ultra short pulses with moderate fluences, it has been shown that the volume ablation rate can be maximized with an optimum setting of the laser parameters. The value of this maximum depends on the threshold fluence and the energy penetration depth. Both measures themselves depend on the pulse duration. For metals the dependence of the threshold fluence is well known, it stays almost constant for pulse durations up to about 10 ps and begin then to slightly increase with the pulse duration. The contrary behavior is observed for the energy penetration depth, it decreases over the whole range when the pulse duration is raised from 500 fs to 50 ps. In this paper we will show that the maximum ablation rate can therefore be increased by a factor of 1.5 to 2 when the pulse duration is reduced from 10 ps down to 500 fs.
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Beat Neuenschwander, Beat Jaeggi, Marc Schmid, Vincent Rouffiange, and Paul-E. Martin "Optimization of the volume ablation rate for metals at different laser pulse-durations from ps to fs", Proc. SPIE 8243, Laser Applications in Microelectronic and Optoelectronic Manufacturing (LAMOM) XVII, 824307 (15 February 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.908583
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KEYWORDS
Picosecond phenomena

Laser ablation

Copper

Metals

Silicon

Pulsed laser operation

Scanning electron microscopy

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