The use of lasers for micro milling can produce many intricate parts, which may be impossible using other techniques. The technique can be used to produce, for example, voids and channels as well as create raised features which are formed by removal of the material surrounding the feature.
Laser milling allows the removal of material by typically scanning the beam across the surface of the substrate multiple times and often in multiple directions. This allows progressively more and more material to be removed while often preserving or improving the surface finish.
Milled features can have a variety of geometries from rectangular voids, through narrow channels, to raised features for example pyramids or pillars.
Oxford Lasers not only have a wide variety of lasers available to undertake micro milling, but crucially a variety of scanning modules and devices that allow us to produce almost any shaped feature.
Oxford Lasers have been laser micro milling a wide variety of materials from glasses and polymers through to metals and ceramics for over 20 years.
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