Jarkko Mutanen, Jarno J. Kaakkunen, Hemmo Tuovinen, Jouni Hiltunen, Sini Kivi, Maunu Toiviainen, Juha Väyrynen, Janne Laukkanen, Victor Prokofiev, Pertti Pääkkönen, Mikko Juuti, Markku Kuittinen, Kari Mönkkönen
In this study we tested ns-laser and an atomic layer deposition (ALD) for polishing and coating CNC-machined aluminum freeform mirrors that are used in a compact multipoint fiber optical probe. Two types of ALD coatings, aluminum oxide and silicon dioxide were tested. The surface roughness of mirrors was analyzed prior to and after nanosecond-laser polishing and coating them on a Beneq TFS 200 ALD device. The freeform aluminum mirrors with and without coatings were then measured with optical profiler. The results show that improvement in the surface roughness can be seen with ns-laser polished and ALD coated aluminum surfaces.
The use of the femtosecond laser enables generation of small spot sizes and ablation features. Ablation of the small
features usually requires only a small amount of laser power to be delivered to the ablation spot. When using only a one
beam for the ablation of the small features this process is bound to be time consuming. The spatial light modulator (SLM) together with the computer generated holograms (CGH) can be used for manipulating and shaping of the laser
beam in various applications. In laser micromachining, when using laser with relatively high power, the original beam can be divided up to hundreds beams and still have the energy of the individual beam above the ablation threshold of the
material. This parallel laser processing enables more efficient use of the laser power regardless of the machining task.
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