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High-Resolution Laser Micromachining
St. Louis, MO - Gateway Laser Services utilizes a high-resolution laser micromachining process to micromachine "very small parts" with feature sizes down to 0.001 inch and tolerances to ± 0.0002 inch. Such high levels of precision are a key advantage of the laser process, which Gateway uses
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EDM Provides Accuracy for Micromachining
Accuracy is a term we hear so often in the EDM industry, it begins to lose its meaning after a while. But if you are Advanced EDM Automation, and you're doing micro-machining, accuracy is crucial, and it's determined by less than .0001". When you are producing medical components, and individual
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Femtosecond Micromachining Examples
Femtosecond lasers have significant advantages for micromachining applications. Due to the high peak power and short pulse duration, femtosecond laser pulses result in clean ablation with minimal thermal damage, shock-affected-zone, debris, or recast. The unique physics behind this athermal
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Semiconductor Micromachining Using Diode-Pumped Solid-State Lasers
Laser micromachining of semiconductor materials such as silicon and sapphire has attracted more and more attention in recent years. High precision laser cutting and drilling processes have been successfully used in semiconductor, photonics, optoelectronics, and microelectromechanical system (MEMS
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Laser Micromachining PEEK (polyetheretherketone) Films
industries. Gateway Laser | Laser Micromachining PEEK. Laser Cutting. Laser Drilling. Laser Welding. Laser Marking. Laser Micromachining PEEK (polyetheretherketone) Films. High Performance SemiCrystalline PEEK (polyetheretherketone) films are drawing interest within the industrial marketplace. PEEK has
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Lenses for Micro-machining with Fiber Lasers (.pdf)
Micro-machining applications require beam quality approaching diffraction limits for best performance which is why fiber lasers are becoming a popular choice in this space.
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Medical Device Link . Laser Micromachining of Medical Devices
asers provide unique processing capabilities for the manufacture of many products, including disposable medical devices. In some cases, the use of laser-micromachining technology allows more cost-effective solutions compared with other available methods, even though competing technologies may offer
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Medical Device Link . Laser Micromachining: Working on the Cutting Edge
Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry "Laser micromachining is a cutting-edge technology in more ways than one," jokes C. Paul Christensen, PhD, chief technical officer of Potomac Photonics, Inc. (Lanham, MD). He adds, more seriously, "As manufacturers try to make devices smaller, the conventional