Application of picosecond laser processing to target fabrication in equation of state experiments

The fabrication of metal film steps used in equation of state experiment targets was investigated. The metal film step of hundreds of microns width was cut by picosecond laser processing technology. The factors of generating heat effect in the processing were analyzed. The processing parameters were as follows: power 0.5 W, pulse width 10 ps, wavelength 355 nm, and scanning speed 100 mm/s. Two metal films of 400 and 120 microns width were obtained in the experiment. The measurement results show that the width of metal film can be precisely controlled and the quality of metal film surface before and after cutting was the same.