Abstract

Laser stealth dicing can realize material separation with negligible surface damage, but severe aberrations in thick materials degrade processing quality. This Letter presents a nonlinear point-to-point transformation method combined with spherical aberration compensation to achieve aberration-free axial multi-focus beams. The focus peak intensity increases 7 times at a depth of 0.5 mm after spherical aberration compensation, and reaches 44 times at 3.5 mm. Spherical aberration compensation experiments showed that the width of the heat-affected zone remains almost unchanged at different depths inside the glass, and stealth dicing experiments for 1-mm-thick glass demonstrated that aberration-free 1-focus, 2-foci, and 3-foci stealth dicing can be successfully realized.

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