Laser Hole Drilling Machine

The diameter of these holes can be as small as 0 002 50 μm.

Laser hole drilling machine.

Potomac is continually developing and adding new hole drilling processes to our facility. Lasers can be used to drill holes in many different applications across all industries. Laser drilling is a non contact process that uses focused high energy density light to ablate material and drill holes in a wide variety of materials. For thicker materials percussion drilling is first choice and with which the required depth can be achieved by applying several laser pulses.

For large diameters trepanning drilling a combined drilling cutting process or the multi pass method are used. Laser drilling is the process of creating thru holes referred to as popped holes or percussion drilled holes by repeatedly pulsing focused laser energy on a material. Compared to other drilling methods lasers offer superior speed and precision while lowering operating costs. Critical items to consider when planning a hole drilling project include the diameter of the hole the thickness of the material the shape of the hole edge quality of hole desired taper of hole and center to center pitch of the holes.

The quality requirements are very high for micro drilling in particular. Laser drilling of stent tube. The drilling time must be short enough so that laser drilling can compete with conventional drilling methods edm and punching. Time quality flexibility and reproducibility.

For through holes in small workpiece thicknesses single pulse processes can be used. There are four main requirements which high precision drilling with lasers must meet.