Laser micro-etching process and station

Photonic jet technology allows :

• a dramatical decrease of etching size
• engraving glass and other transparent materials with industry standard nanosecond near infrared laser

TECHNOLOGY

A specially designed optical fiber concentrates the laser beam into a small area (diameter until almost half the laser wavelength), enabling a major precision step (on our prototype, an industry standard Ytterbium fiber can reach an engraving definition of more 5 μm).

APPLICATIONS

• Luxury goods/watchmaking: Anti counterfeiting unique and invisible marking (serial number, QRcode…)
• Pharmaceutics: Invisible tracking code engraved on drugs and/or packaging
• Electronics, microfabrication: micro datamatrix code engraving
• Medical : laser ablation in endoscopy

INNOVATION ADVANTAGES

• Highly cost competitive compared to changing laser class
• High sturdiness and easy optical head exchange
• Extremly small optical head (Diameter: 200 μm)
• Flexible optical head.