Slicing of large-size single crystals by ultrafast laser with external stress assistance

Lifeng Wang; Lili Liu; Yinan Wang; Xun Li; Chenchen Li; Ming Li

doi:10.3788/COL202422.081601

Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 22, Issue 8, 081601(2024)

Slicing of large-size single crystals by ultrafast laser with external stress assistance

Lifeng Wang¹, Lili Liu^1,2, Yinan Wang¹, Xun Li¹, Chenchen Li¹, and Ming Li^1、*

¹State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710119, China

²University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

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