Ultra-short pulse lasers, generating coherent light pulses with pulse durations in the
picosecond and femtosecond range, are becoming popular in precision laser …

The industrial maturity of ultrashort pulsed lasers has triggered the development of a
plethora of material processing strategies. Recently, the combination of these remarkable …

Today, ultrafast lasers providing pulses with a duration of a several femtoseconds (1 fs= 10−
15 s) up to a few picoseconds (1 ps= 10− 12 s) are commercially available and are gaining …

High power ultrashort pulsed lasers are an ultimate manufacturing tool for a large variety of
materials and provide outstanding properties for high precision manufacturing with almost …

High-precision micromachining with picosecond lasers became an established process.
Power scaling led to industrial lasers, generating average power levels well above 50 W for …

In this paper, laser processing of technical grade stainless steel and copper using high-
average-power ultrashort pulse lasers is studied in order to gain deeper insight into material …

The unique characteristics of ultrafast lasers have rapidly revolutionized materials
processing after their first demonstration in 1987. The ultrashort pulse width of the laser …

There is a wide range of techniques for generating pulses with durations of nanoseconds,
picoseconds, or even femtoseconds with lasers. Such short durations make light pulses very …

The unique properties of ultrafast lasers have made them powerful new tools in many fields
of laser materials processing and research. Due to their extremely short pulse duration and …

Femtosecond lasers currently show much promise as potential sources of choice in a
number of laser micromachining applications, including biomedicine, photonics and …