Abstract

Experimental results on drilling of PMMA by mid-IR lasers are presented and discussed. Proper choice of a CO laser beam focusing conditions made it possible to produce high aspect ratio (∼100) holes. During the laser drilling a waveguide-like structure of the hole was formed in PMMA with almost a constant sub-millimeter diameter along its whole length. Characteristics of the holes drilled by CO laser (wavelength 5.0–5.5 µm) and CO2 laser (10.6 µm) beams are compared.

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