Femtosecond laser processing system with process parameters, controls and feedback
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1. An apparatus for impinging laser pulses on a target substrate, the apparatus comprising:
- laser means for generating bursts of pulses, said laser means comprising a femtosecond pulse source having a fiber gain medium;
control means that controls the laser means; and
beam manipulation means for monitoring characteristics of the bursts output from the laser means to generate feedback data for the control means, and for manipulating the characteristics of the bursts, said beam manipulation means comprising steering optics that control the impingement location of the laser pulses on the target, said apparatus comprising one or more of a range finder, viewing, and spectroscopic tool to monitor a condition of said target substrate; and
means for positioning the target substrate.
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Abstract
A femtosecond laser based laser processing system having a femtosecond laser, frequency conversion optics, beam manipulation optics, target motion control, processing chamber, diagnostic systems and system control modules. The femtosecond laser based laser processing system allows for the utilization of the unique heat control in micromachining, and the system has greater output beam stability, continuously variable repetition rate and unique temporal beam shaping capabilities.
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49 Claims
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1. An apparatus for impinging laser pulses on a target substrate, the apparatus comprising:
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laser means for generating bursts of pulses, said laser means comprising a femtosecond pulse source having a fiber gain medium; control means that controls the laser means; and beam manipulation means for monitoring characteristics of the bursts output from the laser means to generate feedback data for the control means, and for manipulating the characteristics of the bursts, said beam manipulation means comprising steering optics that control the impingement location of the laser pulses on the target, said apparatus comprising one or more of a range finder, viewing, and spectroscopic tool to monitor a condition of said target substrate; and means for positioning the target substrate. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 23, 24, 25)
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- 21. An apparatus as claimed in 1, wherein the laser means comprises a fiber amplifier.
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26. An apparatus for impinging pulses on a target substrate, the apparatus comprising:
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laser means for generating optical pulses, and for amplifying said pulses in a same fiber amplifier gain medium, wherein said laser means is configured so that each of said pulses are incident on said same fiber laser gain medium and emitted from the same fiber gain medium along a common optical path; control means that controls the laser means; and beam manipulation means for monitoring a characteristic of said optical pulses, and for monitoring said target substrate, said beam manipulation means being operable to generate feedback data for the control means based on target and pulse information, the beam manipulating means comprising;
a telescopic optical device to control the size, shape, divergence or polarization of the laser pulses input into the beam manipulation means, and steering optics that control an impingement location of the laser pulses on the target substrate;means for positioning the target substrate. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28)
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29. An apparatus for impinging pulses on a target substrate, the apparatus comprising:
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laser means for generating optical pulses having pulse widths in the range of femtoseconds to picoseconds, said laser means comprising a fiber gain medium; control means that controls the laser means; beam manipulation means for monitoring a characteristic of said optical pulses, and for monitoring said target substrate, said beam manipulation means being operable to generate feedback data for the control means based on target and pulse information, said beam manipulation means comprising steering optics that control an impingement location of the laser pulses on the target substrate, said apparatus comprising one or more of a range finder, viewing, and spectroscopic tool to monitor a condition of said target substrate; and means for positioning the target substrate. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46)
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47. An apparatus for impinging laser pulses on a target substrate, the apparatus comprising:
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laser means for generating bursts of pulses; control means that controls the laser means; beam manipulation means for monitoring characteristics of the pulse bursts output from the laser means to generate feedback data for the control means, and for manipulating the characteristics of the pulse bursts, the beam manipulation means comprising;
a power meter that measures the power of the laser pulses output from the laser means;
a photodiode that measures the repetition rate of the laser pulses; and
an optical gating device that measures the pulse duration of the laser pulses; andmeans for positioning the target substrate. - View Dependent Claims (48, 49)
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