Study, automation and planning of micromachining processes based on infrared pulsed Fiber Laser

Short-pulsed Fiber Lasers represent an ideal solution for many micromachining operations due to their high quality laser beam and strong focusability. In this thesis, micromachining processes based on infrared pulsed Fiber Laser were investigated. A laser micromachining setup based on a 10 W Yb-doped pulsed Fiber laser source was designed, integrated and automated in order to conduct experimental activity. A new approach to part programming for laser micromachining based on syntax-free, non-structured natural language text was proposed. Experimental work was conducted by means of the pulsed Fiber Laser micromachining setup on metal and non-metal surfaces. The experiments proved that Fiber Lasers are well suited to the micromachining tasks.