If there was a better way to obtain feedback on how the laser interacts (laser interaction) with a material, laser precision could be significantly improved. A production laser’s cutting and etching actions would be more controlled and less uncertain in this manner. Until now, this problem has proven to be surprisingly difficult to solve.
Despite decades of research into lasers and their applications, there have been few methods for precisely, efficiently, and directly observing fine details of their interactions with materials – laser interaction observation.
For the first time, researchers discovered a method to obtain such data from a production laser using low-cost equipment, which could vastly improve the accuracy of laser-cut or etched items. The prevalence of lasers could have far-reaching implications in laboratory, commercial, and industrial settings.
To determine how far into a surface a laser has cut, tens or hundreds of depth readings are frequently required. It is a significant barrier to fast, automated laser-based manufacturing systems. As a result, they developed a new method for determining and predicting the depth of a hole created by laser pulses based on a single observation rather than tens or hundreds. This discovery represents a significant advancement in the controllability of laser processing.
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