The general goal of the experiment was to assess the newest generation of Scanlab’s intelliSCANSE and excelliSCAN galvoscanners for laser micromachining with ultrashort pulses at high average powers in typical micromachining applications. Within the already running APPOLO project, only the adaption of the existing slower intelliSCANDE system with a maximum speed of about 10 m/s with a 160 mm objective, was originally planned. In the meantime, Scanlab has developed two new and much faster scanner systems, the intelliSCANSE and the excelliSCAN, as well as the new improved control board RTC6. Both scanner systems are very interesting for surface texturing and micromachining applications within the APPOLO project. The possibility to use the highest acceleration independent of the marking speed makes these systems very interesting for machining small surfaces and structures. Its potential to reduce machining time was explored in real industrial applications and fully synchronised mode.
All performed experiments clearly showed that the newly developed scanner technology allows to take benefit of increased acceleration values and marking speeds in all applications. Significant reduction in the overall machining time has been observed at maintained or even improved machining quality. For some applications, this scanner technology even allowed to use the laser system up to its limits. Therefore, it is very well suited for most micro-machining applications with minimal machining times.
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