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3D Subtractive Printing with Ultrashort Laser Pulses

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The recent evolution in fast 3D ablation are overviewed in the context of 3D printing and in terms of the new burst laser mode of operation, which delivers previously unexplored capabilities for material processing. Material removal rates at different ablation modes are compared.

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Acknowledgments

EU LASERLAB-EUROPE (grant agreement No. 871124, Horizon 2020 research and innovation program) project is acknowledged for the financial support. Window-on-Photonics R&D, Ltd. is acknowledged for joint development grant and laser fabrication facility. Fs-laser fabrication was supported via the Australian Research Council grants DP190103284 and LP190100505. Discussion of various aspects of light-matter interactions on ultrashort times and small volumes with colleagues and coauthors Professors E. Gamaly, Y. Bellouard, Y. Hayasaki, K. Hatanaka, A. Rode, L. Zhigilei, and A. Dubietis were very helpful for our own research work.

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  1. Nanotechnology facility, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC, Australia

    Soon Hock Ng & Saulius Juodkazis

  2. Laser Research Center, Faculty of Physics, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania

    Mangirdas Malinauskas

  3. Tokyo Tech World Research Hub Initiative (WRHI), School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

    Mangirdas Malinauskas & Saulius Juodkazis

  4. Centre for Micro-Photonics (H74), Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC, Australia

    Saulius Juodkazis

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Hock Ng, S., Malinauskas, M., Juodkazis, S. (2021). 3D Subtractive Printing with Ultrashort Laser Pulses. In: Sugioka, K. (eds) Handbook of Laser Micro- and Nano-Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69537-2_38-1

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