Abstract

For a variety of industrial micromachining applications, such as the production of injector nozzles, the machining of sophisticated medical implants and also direct medical applications (tissue removal), the highest achievable precision and a minimum invasion is required. In the past years it has been demonstrated that the ultrashort-pulse machining technique, applying solid-state femtosecond laser systems, can meet these requirements, even for very problematic, sensitive, and delicate materials, such as e g. metals [1,2] and organic tissues.

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