The use of lasers for micro cutting has become very popular in a variety of industries. The ability to translate the laser beam across the material surface at several meters per second, lends itself to being able to cut not only with extraordinary precision, but also very quickly.
Laser cutting can not only produce linear cuts as common with traditional dicing or sawing techniques, but due to the ability to manipulate the beam in any direction, can produce any shape of cut in the original substrate material.
One unique benefit to the use of lasers when cutting, is the ability to produce extremely narrow kerf widths. This is important when either the material is expensive, or cuts need to be produced between pre-existing close pitched features.
Rather than cut completely through materials, it is possible to stop at a predetermined depth - this lends itself to a scribe and break process, which can not only serve to increase the speed of the cutting process, but also hold very small and delicate parts together before separation.
Oxford Laser have a wide variety of lasers available for laser cutting, ranging from ultrafast lasers which are particularly good for cutting transparent materials, to lasers with longer pulse lengths which can help to increase throughput.
Oxford Lasers have been laser micro cutting in a wide variety of materials for over 20 years.
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